MN Little Italy 18

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Where are you????

Yes, get him pippi. It's addictive. The only problem is that dh has started addressing me as "Motherfucker" (in a nice way, I like to point out for those who don't really know us )

MM, you sound do much happier now that you've gone all swiss apple cake

Shoes - DS has one pair for school (plus plimsoles), a pair of next all star type things he's had for a while and a pair of pretend huggs (i wanted him to have some "proper" boots, but no, he wanted the same as the ones he's had). I might still get him a pair of shoes for winter/spring though as the all star are getting a bit too cold, so basically 2 pairs. in the summer he only wears all stars or mainly crocs (he's got 2 or 3 pairs from the 99p shop). DD has inherited shoes from all over the place, though some she won't get to wear as they are right fit now but are proper sandaletti, but really at the moment she has a pair of 2ndhand chicco ones, but might get her a pair of boots/scarponcini as the chicco are canvas type stuff.

early night for me!

Oh hello camo, get well!

Computer has given up for the night and typing on the iPod is too slow. Goodnight everyone!

Good morning!

Camo, I do hope you are feeling better today!!!!

I can now confirm I bought the first series of the Wire, allegedly as a b'day present for DH. Of course this required an Amazon order, which then included a variety of other things too (guilty emoticon). Franca re: MF epiteto - but I am now curious to meet you as a couple now

SG, welcome back - I spent far too much of my pregnancy feeling guilty for one thing or another (if I was working because I was working, if I wasn't because I wasn't) - I was a giant emotional volcano basically. Try to relax if you can and pamper yourself...

Anyway I am now off to the hairdresser to perfect my stepford image... May even paint my nails this pm...

Back - Franca we made it out for lunch and had a lovely time. Poor mum went back today after rain every day and the sun is out !!!
Shoes - DD has 1 pair of nice boots, 1 pair shoes Wintery ) Both last years that still fit her. A a pair of trainers and a pair of nice startrite kind of things oh and a pair of Barbie trainers Eu8 in a sale !
Minirosa has yet to be shod ! ( apart from daisy roots and toddler things ...)
MM send over the apple cake please its a favourite in our house!
DO other areas in Italy celebrate San Martino ???
Right off to read what I have missed.

Rosa, glad you had a lovely time and I hope you had some lovely food to go with it (Venice is one of my fav place food wise )

Minerva and ... I hope I didn't send out the wrong image of us as couple... . It is meant as a joke, I promise

Oh I need a bit of commiseration.
Took the dc to swimming lessons. I was drying dd's hair, while ds was getting dressed. He was having trouble to put his socks on. I told him to wait until I finished dd's hair. I was finished in 2 minutes.
And one of ds's socks had disappeared. I couldn't find it anywhere. I had a massive meltown and ranted and ranted at him how fed up I was he kept loosing things (which he does, constantly). I must have shocked all the other parents and children. Poor ds. Poor me, I'm an idiot.
(but he keep loosing socks) . poor ds.

oh franca.... boys and their socks eh? sorry it sounds exactly like the sort of thing which would drive me up the wall. and other parents too, so no one will have been shocked.

dd1 has a vomit bug so dreading tonight. it will be bad, unless I and/or dd2 also get it, in which case it will be horrendous. so am going to bed NOW to try and rest a bit. have laid out spare sheets/towels/pjs etc.

i hate vomiting bugs.

Oh no Masseuse, vomiting bugs are the worse. I hope you manage to escape it.

No, I really went OTT with my rant, I think I shocked the whole changing room . And up to that point we were really having a lovely time together (even if the getting dressed bit can be a bit testy, but I've always been quite smug for keeping my cool, more or less).
Poor thing.

Ohhh, Mm, hope you survived!
Franca, don't worry, apologise to ds and stop fretting.

I need a recipe for lamb stew, I normally do Pippi's with olives, can anyone give me anotehr one please? So sick of my cooking.

Another lovely day scheduled for today at JB's household.

Yes, I have been apologizing to him since yesterday . He found the sock, btw. It was stuck in his jumper sleeve.. He "lost" it while putting on his jumper, holding his socks . And forgetting after 1 nanosecond. And I looked everywhere in the changing rooms yesterday night

But basta now.

What are you doing javier? I've been to ikea with my mum. Then have to pick up dd, drop her at friend's, go to the supermarket and go to a meeting at her school (my mum will take ds to another friend).
So I need to cook now for our dinner.

Lamb stews. Let me have a think...

have you had a look on the delia smith website?

I am having a lovely day with dd...

i want to go to ikea, what did you buy?

am going to google lamb stews...

will have a look at delia, i find her recipes sooo long, whereas you lot have quick and easy things to do...

Lots of lovely christmassy things and drawers for our expedit bookcase.

I find delia's recipes quite reliable. You might find something on jamie oliver website as well.

Have to tidy up but I'm still hungry after a lovely panino al salame. What shall I have?

Biscuits?

Ohhhh, Christmassy things!!!

Are you enjoying being a sahm or are you still looking for something? You never say...

And now let me get some brushes out to finish the work here...

Hello everyone, I'm baaaaaack. Not been anywhere, just been awol....thumping emicrania since yesterday...trauma at school....dd got spit on (yeuch) by this brat child and so she kicked him and got moved....The funny thing is this spitty kid has Helicopter Mother (at dd's party she was the one"devo rimanere ho paura che qualcuno fa male al bambino" and Mr Buch was saying the carabinieri ought to be called as this child was beating up on everyone......was v tempted to say "well done" to dd but obviously didn't, Big Talks ensued......and she had 5 hrs of homework last night

Anyway, will ask dp if Scamy is a fascist. (IMO)

Feeling a bit illiterate as headache pills are kicking in so am off to lie on sofa.

I am flicking through a beautiful book on life in Scandinavia I borrowed. I love the simple geomentry of the native houses...

No, not biscuits, just lots of decorations (and those savoury gerkings... )

Oh, me and sahmhood is a complex relationship .

First of all my feelings have always been complicated by the many sensi di colpa I have for not having had a proper "career". This has happened for 2 reasons:

• wrong (maybe) choices on my part
• bad timing. After I got my MA in Bristol we moved to italy for a year (where I started working and soon got pg), therefore ruining my chances to get a job in the field I chose.

Then, I felt incredibly lonely in my first yrs as a mother in the UK. I'm not sure how I'd have felt had we stayed in Milan, but I would have had much more company/occasions to see other adults/share my mummy's anxieties with friends and family etc.

I feel a bit trapped as a sahm, as I totally lost touch with the real mondo del lavoro (I always do bits of translations and stuff like that) and don't feel confident in my abilities.

But I also enjoy being home. Quite a lot. And the more my dc grow up, the more I like being with them !

Can you ask Scamy if he slept with any of those Miss Italia girls, they must throwing themselves shamelessly at him...

Sorry, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy them when they were little. I did. I am excellent at cuddling small people etc etc etc.

Bucharest, your poor dd ! What did the school do with the spitting boy?

How comes she had 5 hrs of homework? Ds never has more than 45 mins worth of stuff to do over the weekend. And it's 45 mins just because he is sooooooooooo slow

Sympathies for the headache, it's horrible!

Sounds complicated, I never feel it is so black and white the answer...

Have you thought of doing some volunteering in a field, so you have more chances of eventually getting work? In case you feel different when the kids are older and want to work more outside the house?

I am trying to think of what to do when dd is off my hands, still a while. I will miss her terribly, she is the best! with ds of course. Today she looked at me and she said "mammmmmmma", worth every fucking wash I have to do....

The one hting I miss about whomhood is the extra money we had. Nothing else really. I want money, money, money.

Buch, how old is your dd again?

No, it certainly isn't a black and white answer.
I think my main problem was that I didn't like living abroad. Oh please, don't think I lived like a hermit, I didn't . I think I did quite well at the end of the day and made some really good friends etc. My dc grew into cheerful little things etc. But a mild feeling of depression was always underneath the surface with me and ruined the whole sahmhood experience.

It is also ideological, as you know, I don't necessarily believe children need their parents 24/7.