Week 5 - eating and exercising

Finally nice weather in the week-end, so there was lots of riding and time with the horses for me and the girls. First a nice cappuccino and cornetto before going to the riding stables in the morning. Finally I had time to take also Carlotta riding. She hadn't started yet this year because it had been raining so much. She was very happy because she managed to do lots of things on her own with the nice pony, Morositas. I think I have found the right riding school for her now!
I got a chock when I weighed myself. This didn't stop me from eating, but at least I did some physical excercise every day. On Monday I managed to get my friend with me to try a Zumba class. There was a free Zumba lesson at the theater where I had been with Carlotta and it was really sweaty indeed, but also great fun! So I think that's what I need in addition to my riding lessons. I also went out jogging a couple of times with Carlotta. It's quite good company for me, not too hard, but maybe she gets tired a bit too fast.  I would need to jog a little bit more, but I'm so lazy to go alone. I decided to go to Zumba on Mondays when we don't go riding anyway, because in Italy the riding schools are closed on Mondays.

On Friday evening the boys from our family went to see a football match and me and the girls went out eating with our friens. We had planned to go to Mc Donalds, but the one by the sea where we wanted to go had closed already at 7 o'clock and when also another of our favourite restaurants by the sea was closed we phoned to my riding instructor who has a nice restaurant at our riding school and asked if he had place for us and he dis. We had a very nice evening there, relaxing and good food, only we had far too much to eat!
On Sunday afternoon we took a little walk and when we saw the sun going down we noticed that days had got much longer already!

Week 4 - Another rainy week

I'm a bit behind with my weekly postings. Anyway week 4 began with rain again and it continued almost all week with a few days without rain where we were able to go to our riding lessons.
The week-end was really rainy and especially on Sunday the rain continued pouring all day long. Fortunately I remembered that Carlotta had got an information leaflet from her school about a theater showing Cinderella. Sofia went to a shopping centre with her friend and her friend´s mother and Daniele went to a friend, too, so for me and Carlotta this was the perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. The play was really amusing and the actors were good. Even if it was a children's show, I had a really good time, too. I promised to myself that I would go to the theater a bit more often from now on. We have a few small theaters that aren't too far away, so I really have to go there once in a while.

On Saturday Sofia got dental braces. They are mobile braces, so she will have to remember to take them off before eating and put them on again and be careful not to loose them.
The rest of the week we just waited for the rain to stop, had some of the children's school friends coming over baked a cake that I managed to burn when I accidentaly turned the oven temperature knob to 300.
On Friday me and my friend bought some pizza and spent a nice and relaxing evening at her house together with our children eating, chatting, drinking wine and laughing. Nice!

Week 3 - A rainy week

Last week-end the weather was good and we went riding both on Saturday and on Sunday, but then it started raining and week 3 was very rainy and quite cold too. In the photos it's me riding, Carlotta playing with the Nintendo and the curious horses wondering what she was doing, then the double rainbow that we saw one day and then rain, rain. I bought a new display for my computer - very nice! On Friday my friend came over with her girls and we had a nice evening eating pizza and the girls played with the wii. This week we also did a lot of home work, me included. My bigger children are very independent with their home work, but Sofia needs help in the subjects where she needs to study and remember lots of things, like history, art history, geography and sciences. Carlotta needs help and lots and lots of patience with all her home work. After a break with no work I got a lot of work, too and hope I will manage to do everything on time!

Layout Winter 2013 in Finland

I did a layout about some of the best moments of our visit to Finland this winter. The template is from the site Scraporchard and it´s a freebie template of Sarah Hawkins.

Bye Finland!

This Friday it was time to say goodbye to snowy Finland. We had a really nice time and Carlotta said she wanted to remain in Finland. Daniele went to Lovisa twice this week to see his friends. On Monday I took him there by car and he came back by bus. I took some photos of the beautiful snowy streets of the old town. Then he went there and slept over the last night before going to our dear friends' house where we slept the last night and then took the early flight back to Rome on Friday morning at 8.30.
This week me and Sofia went horse riding and it had been snowing a little bit so we could gallop in the snow, which was really fun. After that a warm sauna at home and life couldn't get better! We also went to the sledding slopes and walked on the ice before going back to Rome. And of course we did some shopping in the winter sales.

Week 1

As I so successfully finished my weekly posts of 2012, I will continue with the same project also this year. This year Simona decided to launch the project 7 photos a week.

 It shouldn't actually be any problem for me as I take som many photos, but I'm not sure if I will post 7 photos every week. Anyway, I will partecipate with at least one photo a week, as I did last year and I will try to post on time this year, although I'm not so sure if I'll succeed in that. While surfing among blogs I also find another inspiring post in this blog http://www.serendipityissweet.com/. She has beautiful photos and I think I will try to follow her Friday Photo Journal meme.

The first week of 2013 we enjoyed the Finnish winter.

We welcomed the new year, went horse riding, played with snow (first very wet snow, but then it got better), gave our traditional Christmas present to my parents, a photo calendar, went to my sister's house in the countryside, saw some good friends and on the 6th of January we went to the theatre with my parents to see a very amusing musical with music of Cole Porter.

Happy 2013

We came to Finland on New Year's Eve. We welcomed the new year at my brother's house eating good food, playing games, chatting and going out to see the fireworks. There was a lot of snow in Finland, but the temperature was above zero, so it was very wet.