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.

Week 52 - Waiting for Santa Claus

This is the last post for this year's 52 week's project. It was hard to choose one photo, but I chose Carlotta showing the drawing she made for Santa Claus. She made it while waiting for the evening when Santa usually leaves his sack outside our door. I put two photos because the drawing has two sides.

And these are a few moments of our Christmas.

Week 51 - Visiting Rome

This 52 week's project is slowly  ending and I'm glad I managed to follow it through, althought I always was a bit late with my posts, but this way I have updated my blog at least with one post a week. Next year I'm sure I will do a similar project.
This week Sofia had two days off from school. We have a friend who is a tourist guide. She loves her job and has an incredibly good memory for historical things and details. Her son was in Sofia's class in the elementary school and in the kindergarten. She proposed to take the children to the centre of Rome and go to visit something and we went to the churches of San Giovanni and Santa Maria Maggiore - two of Rome's most important churches. She had lots of interesting things to tell and then we all sat down for twenty minutes to draw a picture of one of the apostles in San Giovanni. We really should take some time to do this more often! Carlotta's school wasn't closed, but I took her with us, because I wouldn't have been able to pick her up at 1 p.m. She appreciated it a lot and said that she could imagine the things Elisabeth was telling about.

On Friday it was the last day at school before the Christmas holidays. As the children get bigger they don't have so much shows at school, but Carlotta's class sang Christmas songs and Sofia's class had a little concert with their music teacher and his other classes. He is a very modern teacher and likes to teach the latest hits to his classes. They take a portable electrick piano to school and have learnt to play for example "Ma cherie", "Whistle", "Se eu te pego" and other hits of this year. I like this approach to music.