MN Little Italy 12

[SunflowerNeedsSunshine]

Ciao, hello, welcome!

Friend has been able to contact his parents, but apparently an uncle is still uncontactable and he lives in a small village near L'Aquila full of old houses. He is in Protezione Civile though, so maybe he's just too busy to asnwer his phone.

I feel guilty now as I rang him this morning because he was late with a project he was supposed to give me. I hadn't seen the news.

Hopefully it's just that communications are overloaded Brange. It's just terrible. I cant imagine it! we are diy-ing tonight cos a panel in our kitchen fell down with it and I think we should move our bracketed shelves which are fixed right over our heads as we sleep after seeing that photos bounced off them last night. So if it it felt like that here I can't begin to imagine what it was like there.FIL has a 5th floor apartment in Rome and he said he woke up with the apartment making a groaning type noise and swaying. He said it's the worse one he can remember feeling from Rome.

Watching Barbara D'Urso......so awful....
Of course we felt the San Giovanni di Puglia one....

I think I'd be prising those shelves off asap Gio!

It must be so scary waking up to feel everything shaking, I can't imagine it.

oh, hello guys. we didnt' meet up with franca after all, neither with bs, too difficult to arrange, but met up with damon and beautiful and super well behaved, happy, relaxed, etc etc dds. i think my ds is smitten with her dd1...he does have a few girls on the go...

i suspect franca made a detour to marylebone high street

damon imagine, i may be living in the inner city, but goodness we only got home at 17.50, luckily dp had arranged dinner (a miracle) (and it was only a shop bought pizza, so harldy an effort, still i am easily impressed so low are my standards). we did stop briefly in a shop, but goodness, i am sure you living in the burbs reached home earlier.

will be watching the italian news, the earthquake made the headlines in the news, it brings back memories of the irpinia earthquake in the 80s, still have nightmares about it....

I can't watch any more I just want to do something but what will be helpful ?- I am always wary of giving money to those sms things as I wonder if it really does get there.

I sent a text to a friend who lives in pg but is from L'Aquila this mmorning. she had not replied yet when I got on the tube this aft and seeing the papers it hit home (after a lovely day with mcloud's and dcs). She and her relatives are fine but scary and so sad.
I've never felt an earthquake as was alredy here when the assisi one stroke. must be a terrible feeling.

to more lighthearted subjects: McCloud : I was home at 5.25 which I thought was pretty bad. I know because I looked at the watch when I got in and thought how sad that I live in suburbia and imagined you getting home ages previously! DD2 did not fall asleep but happily sat in her pram watching her hands all the way. Not one moan. DD1 was tired but happy and chirpy. Had a really lovely day. fed them in a flash and both in bed at 7 on the dot. DD1 very happy with your DS as usual. The play so well together they are a picture. And forget dd1, you know I 've got a soft spot for him .

Ah want to ask - do you think is bad that dd2 by eating so fast swollows (sp?) half penne whole? Should I avoid giving her things in chunks? She does not want pureed and is determined to fed herself. she looks like a 'mangiatrice di coltelli'!

we had to wait ages for the bus, then we took one, but midway a lady on a wheelchair got on and we were told to get off as you cannot apparently have pram and wheelchair on the same bus. we did spend a while in the shop but stillllll, it took ages.

ds was eating penne whole at that age, so no, it's fine....pureeng is for tiny babies, even my dd is moving on to thicker food.lol at mangiatrice di coltelli.

i suspect lots of kids begin to refuse food becasue they don't want pureed stuff ,but parents don;t realise they have to move them on. gave some little chunks of bed to dd today and she ate them greedily, but still very slowly. I see my life flying by when i feed her, she eats lots but takes her ages to chew the smallest piece of cheese.

when did you start reading books to dd2? with ds, probably i was there with little books as soon as he was born, pfb par excellence. with dd1 i don't think i will ever time to do it, always onthe go with the house, washing machine, garden, blah, blah.

TBH I feel quite guilty with DD1 because I was shocked by her arrival (as you all know by now) that I could hardly take control of my life let alone read her books. So I did not read to her for quite a while which is weird for a book worm like me. Which explain why she was not that interested in books at first (as in read them on her own, mind you maybe she was just too small and I'm asking too much from her). Now however she is always 'reading' which pleases me no end.
DD2 on the other hand is always surrounded by books. we've got two small ikea baskets full of those mini books and sometimes when I want some peace I put the box in front of her and she stays there ages looking at them and turning the pages.
I do not read to her yet. I gues I should as now she could sit on my lap etc. But I haven;t got the time. Having said that it sounds such a lovely thing to do, maybe I'll make some time. (pippi waves goodbye to any remote chance of reading her own books ...)

I never really pureed anything for DS, unless it was like that anyway, ie soup etc. However around 18 months he went from omnivorous to fussy virtually overnight, just like his sister. No idea why, but DD is getting over it finally, at nearly 5!

Glad you had a good meet-up, shame you didn't get to see Franca.

We were the opposite and read loads to PFB DD. Poor DS has to read to himself most of the time, he has got very much more interested in them lately though.

infact i feel that dd gets very little attention, too busy, i used to give ds little massages and spend mornings in bed singing him songs...boh!

interestng recipe of chicken and olives
www.ricettepertutti.it/ricette.asp?prog=1267

I've never had time to give either of my babies massages or sing in bed. [pippi is wondering where her time goes and what does she do with her children and why they seem to settled and content despite her shortcomings].
I feel dd2 has got such a better time because she's got her sister to play with, look at, imitate copy, keep her entertained etc while I do the chores. DD1 had none of this poverina.

I made that invention chicken tonight but wasn't as good as last week. DH liked it though, unsurprisingly and thankfully.
will look this up.

i didn't have chores with ds......i miss the massages ,the 1 to 1, she may not care ,but i miss them....i might try to do less chores and spend time with dd...before she is all grown up.

i love youre recipe title Invention chicken.

Doing my meal plans for the week. Struggling with fish recipes though.

with fish I usually just get frozen cod fillets or similar and do something juicy on the side to mix it with on the plate and couss couss or rice.

watched the news. so horribly abotu the quake. was felt in pg quite strongly. must call my mum.

Ciao everyone.

Such horrible news about the earthquake.

Thanks for all your nice comments about the house. Hooray Sputnik that your mortgage is all sorted out. And that's so weird about your mum teaching in that village! Small world indeed.

We've just been walking round the house, feeling slightly terrified at all we have to do...

And our car broke down.

Busy busy busy.

are you moving soon penthe?

So how many books of ideas have you created Penthe.
I think I am going to do a box of baby stuff and send it on to the indrizzi given on the internet for the earthquake people as there are so many conti to help these people I don't know which one to choose.My theory = I don't have much but I have more than some of these poor people have right now.

I want to do something as well. Have been wanting to give blood for ages and this made me determined. but even if I do it won't go there.
wll look at this conti on internet.

MCCloud I am not sorry anymore (not that I was) for dd2 not having much attention - I think she's got far too much. At her age DD2 was already settled and happy with CM and never made a scene. This morning however... DD2 screamed and screamed for a whole hour and a hlaf at the gym creche: from the minute I left till the minute I came back!!
She is as stubborn as a mule! I must must leave her a bit more often or she'll grow up a monster methink.

penthe ciao ! you must be so happy to have the keys in your hands. I imagine you walking around your property like the lady of the manor .

I wanted to give blood but am Bf and I don't think you can . Anyway they say they have enough I am O neg as well which is what was needed.
If you put in Google Terremoto come posso aiutare you get a full list of places and conti.
Re dd2 I think I am going to hae the same problem with minirosa as I can't put her down when we are at home - mind you she is at the stage of screaming when I go out the room !!
DD1 has her first gita in a few weeks they are going to a scoula materna for a morning . Thing is they have chosen the one that nobody is going to - we did mention it but apparently it is as its the communale one oh well will see if dh can go as they want some genitori to go and help.