One Week Countdown
Welcome to the blog of our family's anno sabbitico in Padova, Italy. Mostly I'll be posting, but I hope to get Bill and the kids to add some comments along the way. We leave one week from today and are all very excited.
I had a relatively sleepless night worrying about the important things like which shoes to take and how I'm going to get tickets to a human chess game in Marostica (not far from Padova) in September. Unfortunately, it occurs to me that I should really start packing today and that unfortunately includes getting all the laundry done, cleaning my bedroom and negotiating with Isabelle the number of stuffed animals and beanie babies she will be bringing.
The great thing about setting up this blog is that now I have a legitimate excuse to take a break and post entertaining and interesting posts for our family and friends versus taking a break to play literati (note: literati is an online scrabble game through yahoo) with strangers across the world who are probably other harried moms avoiding the drudgery of it all, grad students avoiding school work and software written by tech geeks posing as real humans.
I hope this blog does not become the written equivalent of home movies, but if I ask you about it and you say something like "Wow, Italy and Padova sound like really great places and I never knew the climate that far north was so temperate" or "That story about the kids was just hilarious" I will be fooled into thinking you are reading my blog and none the wiser. At the very least I know my parents and Bill's dad will read it if for no other reason than parental loyalty, parental guilt or
both.
Okay, the blog is set up and I need to have some coffee and get to work!!
I had a relatively sleepless night worrying about the important things like which shoes to take and how I'm going to get tickets to a human chess game in Marostica (not far from Padova) in September. Unfortunately, it occurs to me that I should really start packing today and that unfortunately includes getting all the laundry done, cleaning my bedroom and negotiating with Isabelle the number of stuffed animals and beanie babies she will be bringing.
The great thing about setting up this blog is that now I have a legitimate excuse to take a break and post entertaining and interesting posts for our family and friends versus taking a break to play literati (note: literati is an online scrabble game through yahoo) with strangers across the world who are probably other harried moms avoiding the drudgery of it all, grad students avoiding school work and software written by tech geeks posing as real humans.
I hope this blog does not become the written equivalent of home movies, but if I ask you about it and you say something like "Wow, Italy and Padova sound like really great places and I never knew the climate that far north was so temperate" or "That story about the kids was just hilarious" I will be fooled into thinking you are reading my blog and none the wiser. At the very least I know my parents and Bill's dad will read it if for no other reason than parental loyalty, parental guilt or
both.
Okay, the blog is set up and I need to have some coffee and get to work!!
posted by Cindy | 7:43 AM
1 Comments:
This is my very first blog post, so I suppose I better invent a blogger name to avoid being identified.
Cindy is in "full Cindy mode," says Bill, who is in complete Bill mode. Isabelle says, "I am not going, I am not speaking Italy, and don't speak Italy to me!." Every so often Nick shouts, "Who ever is going to Italy in 10 (or 9 or *" days, raise their hand." Then reminds his mom to "raise your hand." Sam is packed, and is wearing his I-have-a-secret grin more than usual.
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