Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and I’m trying to contain my excitement. We’ve gone from zero to hero in our house this year. Last year, we had absolutely no decorations. This year, we’ve even decorated the porch. Cue excited squeals! Our town is in the middle of its annual Christmas festival. It’s a […]
We don’t have a lot of holiday traditions in our family. As first generation Italian-Australians, we’re in a funny limbo. We lost a lot of the traditions of the old country when my parents immigrated to Australia, but we haven’t picked up any Aussie ones yet. So no Boxing Day barbecues or homemade panettone. Just […]
I was speaking to my mother-in-law a couple of days ago and she mentioned that I had a perchance for design. She admonished me for not considering it as a career choice. Frankly, I rolled my eyes. In a small Tuscan town like mine, throwing a blanket over the arm of a chair is considered high-end […]
I was having a conversation with Giulio this morning when he mentioned that I attach exaggerated expectations to my birthday. I’ll admit my birthday is the most important day of the year as far as I’m concerned and I say that as someone who is close approaching the big 3-0. It might be a little childish, […]
The heading for this post sounds terribly conceited, but I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a cookware expert. When Giulio and I got married, I remember sitting there trying to do the gift registry and coming up with nothing. We weren’t inviting that many people, so I couldn’t just go to my local department store and choose everything […]