A little off topic post with all my excuses for not continuing my little ramble until now

Life has been hectic (major understatement!) lately...

My two "little" angels started school two weeks ago. After five years in a small private school, A started public middle school. For the last four years, she had TWO classmates. At her new school, there are several hundred students so it has been interesting to say the least to adjust to the new setting (it has probably been worse on the parents though ;)). For the first time she also has school on saturdays :( (major bummer since both girls go to school in the nearest city a 20 min drive away - when there's no traffic - and we usually stay home all weekend).

L started public primary school - in our country, all children are fully integrated in regular classrooms, but unfortunately special ed teachers or assistants are only provided for public schools, so we could not have her in the same private school A went to. Again adjusting has been very hard on us parents... she is our baby, and she did not go to nursery or preschool. To make things even more interesting, we speak English at home, and school's obviously in Italian. However she seems to be doing very well, her assistant and teachers seem very nice, and she's pretty popular with her classmates :). More importantly, she loves going to school even though it means she has to wake up much earlier than she used to. Funnily enough I was convinced she was going to be exhausted and sleep for hours after coming back home, but she seems to have double the energy in the afternoons these days!

On top of school, A has piano lessons on two afternoons per week (this is actually part of her school curriculum since she is in a music class). We also signed L up for an afternoon program that runs until the end of October, also two afternoons per week (until 6 pm...).

Add my father in law who has some health problems at the moment, basically we haven't had a breather for 3 weeks. Hopefully we'll get into a better routine and things will get easier, since I have all the best intentions to keep up with THIS blog.