Tonight we are celebrating our dear friend and future mum, with a babyshower, where we(the girls) bring gifts ( shower of gifts..) exchange babytips, eat, drink and chitchat, before the baby is born. It's a tradition celebrated all over the world, but not very common in Italy.. but there is always a great excuse to have a good time I always say! Picked up a sweet gift in this cute store in our neighbourhood, where they have stuff both for the house and the kid. shop@profumi e balocchi...

Raise your hand if you don't have too much stuff in your closet, or in your house in general. Arrgh, how come it's a continuos fight against drowning in things, useful and not, that are accumulating around us. I'm even putting my girl to cleaning her room this morning...

This is the article from the Swedish magazine Mama for the March issue. The title says :" I am living the Italian Dream", referring to the tv program that I hosted for the Swedish television called The Italian Dream, where 5 couples wanted to fulfil their dream of opening a bed and breakfast in the Italian countryside. A couple won, after lessons in Italian, cooking lessons and a lot of work restoring the house, and they managed to open their B&B in Lapedona, in the Marche district. The pics in the article are from my summer hangout, Città di Castello, where my daughter is born, and where we spend several months a year. ...

Finished early today at work, and you think, great, I can enjoy this magnificent sunny day. But then you realize, that getting off work early, means that you have time to collect the kid at school, you have time to help her do the homework, you have time to do the grocery shopping, and you have time to prepare dinner.. so getting off work, just brings extra work really, busted, haha! taking a break in a tshirt @h&m necklace@cooee scarf@malo...