I'm back. And I'm inspired.

After about a month of break I am back into the blog-world. I confess I have been utterly uninspired in the last few weeks. I haven't been doing any crafts, pinning, looking at other blogs..nothing of the sort. I felt like nothing exciting was going on in our life, other than studying Italian, doing dishes, laundry, playing with Benjamin...the usual stuff. I kinda wasn't in the mood for blogging either. 

It was a good resting time for me.

Then about a week ago -> AWAKENING -> I started working on some handmade gifts for my neighbor who is about to have a baby boy, found some very inspiring blogs and cleaned out my iPhotos where I have re-found many treasures. So now I am all in the mood again to journal and document our life. 

Where to start...

1. My baby graduated from kindergarten! Usually it is not that great of an achievement, really, but he indeed learn to speak Italian during this school year so I am very proud of him.

Congratulations little man!! Bravo!!!

2. We have finally gotten our Italian ID cards. It didn't even take long, only like 10 minutes. I have been kinda dreading it, because everything takes a long time to acquire in Italy. I went in to the Comune (something like the Secretary of State in the US) and the guy made it right there in from of our very eyes. It was quite the operation involving hammering and full body weight pressure stamping...don't even ask. 

But 10 minutes and 12 euros later we were the happy owners of our new ID cards!

3. Benjamin built the coolest little library for his squirrels and puppies. He even made tiny little books and everything.... Love it!!

4. I have been walking and working out. I like walking in town, I never get bored of looking at the buildings, houses, plants...Italy.

5. At the sea we found some GRAY CLAY the other day. They say it is very good for your skin. I even brought some home and 3-4 times a week I put on a gray clay face mask. I dont know what it actually does but I know that my skin feels amazingly smooth and clean after I wash it off.

6. Benjamin was gifted a pair of boxing mitts and he wouldn't take them off. He calls the gloves "punchers" and he claims he is gonna be a "puncher-man" when he grows up. He insisted on wearing them, and the helmet, when we went to the grocery store a little while ago... I let him do it since it was just one of those corner-shops.

7. My neighbor and friend, Marika prepared some vongole (clams) and shared them with me the other day. So. I grew up in the Great Hungarian Plain and I haven't even seen clams before. We had never had any kind of sea food growing up so I am totally not used to the taste, the smell or even the thought of eating it. Nonetheless I tried them! Which was quite adventurous of me, believe me. It wasn't bad...but I think I will stick with my paprikash chicken for now.

Paprikash chicken...mmm....