Wow - hasn't everyone been busy. My work has got busy so haven't had a chance to catch up properly. But very useful info in the last week for me! Firstly, I've been nervous about this whole weighing thing here in Italy - my health visitor in England told me not to worry about it, and I only went every couple of weeks at the begining and then every couple of months! Also, have been considering the whole Partita IVA issue - will probably carry on as is without one. Especially given that I will have to go on mat leave from End March.
The scan went well and I managed not to cry. I did cave in and we know the sex but aren't tell anyone - mean aren't we!
Rosa - glad dd2 is putting on weight and it sounds as if she is generally happy. My HV in UK told me to trust my instincts - if that helps you at all! Why is it that they need weighing so often here?
My dh wanted to set up an English school - he did the TEFL so we could move over here, but ended up being offered another office job...hence the lack of English school. Although judging by the demand I think there is potential. Maybe we need to consider it some more. Just small scale for the moment though.
It was also useful to hear that it is better to use the UK ebay - as I've scanned the ITalian ebay and it never seems crammed with stuff. Now I just need to take some pictures of all the stuff I want to sell and spend an evening sorting it all out.
Franca - good luck with the studying for the midwifery, sounds lovely to me...both that and teaching have appealed to me at some point - but I need to get my Italian up to scratch before I can even consider it. Maybe this time next year I can think about retraining...
Pippi - sorry about your dh, I hope you are all doing well and I hope you have a team of friends/family who can rally round - otherwise it will have to be virtual rallying from us all here!
Better do half hour of work before picking ds up from asilo..