Hello dear friends, welcome to coffee.
I’m finally, slowly, starting to get back
in the swing of things… kind of. Although I still can’t get my mind to wrap
around the idea of all that snow out there. And yes, I know it started snowing
late this year, and I avoided most of winter due to my month and a half long
vacation in Houston, and I also shouldn’t complain since I just wrote the words
“month and a half” and “vacation” in the same sentence, but seriously, enough
with the snow. I’m pretty sure my friend Bridget, who lives in Alaska and can
be found writing an extremely funny blog under several feet of snow for at
least five months out of the year, definitely thinks I’m a wimp. But I have had
enough. Enough.
This whole weather antagonism I’m
feeling right now is likely due to the fact that our entire household was
felled by the flu this weekend. The kids started it (don’t they always?!) with
vomit-fest 2012 last Tuesday, then
inexplicably high temperatures, an ear infection, then the nanny and the husband
started feeling ill and by Friday I threw in the hatchet and declared our house
officially a plague zone.
Of course the kids are feeling better
now, and have recovered all of their energy, which means they will no longer
sit quietly in front of the tv all day whilst I nurse my sinus infection and
fever so my wonderful mother in law came down from Milan yesterday and has
officially taken over child entertainment and general care duties. This
warrants a big round of applause for mother in laws. Thank you.
So, if we were really having coffee
today… well luckily we’re having it over the internet so I’m not spreading any
germs.
Oh, and Happy Valentine’s day! I’m not
feeling very Valentine-y myself today, though I did get some nice red roses
from the Husband. He got some Ugg slipper/shoe type moccasins. And that’s as
far as we’re going in the “celebration of our love” today since we’d just be
sneezing all over each other and generally spreading cooties otherwise. Though
we do have tentative plans to go out to dinner this weekend sans kids, cause
that’s what Valentine’s day is really all about for parents, just a good excuse
to have a quiet meal with no children in the vicinity.
Valentine’s day also means that the
Boy’s birthday is right around the corner… and this means that I have to figure
out what to do about it. We have tentative plans for a small party on Saturday,
which will probably be a costume party as carnival time is here and it’s a
pretty big deal in Italy. In fact tomorrow there’s the carnival party at their
preschool and daycare but they’re both going to miss them due to the plague
that has befallen us. Although the Boy’s been wearing his Spiderman costume non-stop
for the past week, so he’s fully in the carnival spirit already.
That’s all the news from here, I’m
going to go play dead in bed for a bit now cause I just poured all the meager energy
reserves I had left in this sorry excuse for a coffee post. Thanks for stopping
by, and for ignoring the tissues strewn all over the place!
And don’t forget to stop by and visit
our hostess Amy!
