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Happy Thanksgiving!

2013-11-27 by Elena Leave a Comment

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Hope you’ll enjoy your family and friends. My husband will work so I’ll be at home with my kids. It is not really our tradition but I’m thankful for a lot of things and I will be happy to celebrate with my little ones.

I will not cook a big turkey and I just bought some at wholefood. I’ll prepare some italian food and my very special mashed potato, a cake and we will probably go to watch FROZEN. The kids are very excited about it!

Too bad we don’t have our family here to celebrate with…I miss them a lot. Especially for Christmas it is very hard to be an expat.
But I’m thankful and blessed I have a lot of new friends here.

So Happy Turkey day!

San Francisco is Gotham City for a day #batkid

2013-11-18 by Elena Leave a Comment

Last Friday here in San Francisco something incredible happened.
Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation made a little kid suffering of Leukemia come TRUE and the city became Gotham city pfor one day and he was Batkid rescueing a lady, putting the bad guy in jail and driving in an amazing BatMobile.
It was amazing how all the people were there to support and cheer the little cute batman.
Even Barak Obama sent a message and I really bet that batkid had an amazing day…

Good Job Batkid!

Look all the amazing pictures on instagram with hashtag #batkid and other infos on USAtoday.com !

USAtoday.com

And from Instagram:

Halloween – the day after

2013-11-01 by Elena Leave a Comment

Goooood morning!!

How was your night? Mine was amazing. I have to tell you that for us it is a very special night because we don’t really celebrate Halloween in Italy. We do now a little bit but there is no real “trick or treating”.
So going around with the kids with all these decorated houses and adorable kids, great customes….it is magical for me.
I really love this because it I feel like in a movie. Yes, because we always only saw that in a movie.
If I had to think at Halloween, I always thought at “E.T.”. THAT was Halloween for me.
And the moment we moved here…it became real thing, so you can actually imagine my excitement!

My kids were dressed up as George Washington (or Mozart or Benjamin Franklin or Mozart…or whatever you like) and Flamenco dancer and now we have all those candies that I have to hide.
I found out that our neighborhood here in San Francisco is pretty famous for the Trick or treat and I enjoyed some stations with the wine for the grown ups and some very well decorated houses.
We’re in Noe Valley and all the merchants on 24th street are open to distribute candies..so fun!

So the kids are at home now….they definitely went to bed too late (my bad) but we all had an amazing evening.
Hope you had lots of fun too!
And don’t forget to partecipate to the 1200$ Giveaway:

http://www.worldwidemom.com/en/2013/10/28/1200-dollars-to-win-giveaway/