A General Overview This month we had our “second” spot of holidays. This time at the seaside in the March region. We decided to try out something that we never did before, i.e. go to one of these “organized villages” where there are a bunch of services like, kids activities, night shows, pools and so… Read More July 2022

A General Overview So it happens that after 9 months of pretty difficult situations we managed to have our first holiday, just the four of us! This is the highlight of the month of course, we managed to spend a WHOLE week in the mountains (Dolomites) and all in all it wasn’t as bad as… Read More June 2022

A General Overview Not a huge improvement in our lives so far, but I can’t say that things are getting worse, so it’s good news I guess… Maybe we reached a plateau? About to leave for a week’s holidays in the mountain, the first after a rather difficult year. Clearly Leo, the older son had… Read More May 2022

A General Overview Things are not improving “busy wise”, but fortunately we are seeing the end of the house renovations that we started a long time ago. Tantrums form the 3 y.o. are killing us most of the time, but there isn’t much to do there, apart from hoping that they will soon stop. On… Read More April 2022

A General Overview Groudhog Day is the idea I keep getting in my mind to describe the recent months, it seems as I keep living the same day over and over, and I don’t like it at all… I guess this is mostly to do with the fact that two young kids/babies are something that… Read More March 2022

A General Overview One day at the time… February is gone! Well well, where to start? We are in the middle of a European war, in 2022. Who would have thought? Russia invaded Ukraine and all of a sudden cold war memories come back to life… It’s kind of NOT funny to see the media… Read More February 2022

A General Overview Very very very late… But here nonetheless! Renovations at home are entering the final stages, University started again at full throttle (a great thing of course), and kids being kids require a lot of management. Having only 24 hours available, I am working at night, as during the day I am taken… Read More January 2022

OUTLOOK ON 2022 Writing the outlook on the new year forces me every time to read what I wrote LAST year about the one that just finished. Well I was talking about a deflationary scenario through 2021, with potential gains for the stock market but a lot of uncertainty as there was too much euphoria… Read More 2021 Year Review

A General Overview So December arrived, bringing Leonardo’s birthday, several festivities (both Italian and Russian) and the much dreaded end of school. This year Leo seems more into Christmas, well I guess growing up means that he realizes more and more what Christmas actually is (for a baby perspective of course, meaning “presents”). The renovations… Read More December 2021

A General Overview I guess I called for it last month, saying that in November I had all the ingredients for some major stressful time and more tiredness. As I mentioned before we have started the interior renovations in our house, initially we had to install a bathtub, we ended up changing kitchen, bedroom and… Read More November 2021