This month has flown by. Here's Bea and her friend Mabel coming out of school. The girls have less than two weeks of school left. They are ready to be done for a while but at the same time it all slips away so quickly.  We got to take a tour of the school building where…

We had our house painted last week. The painters took off the shutters to paint them. I've always wondered what the house would look like without it's shutters – they bother me because they are not real shutters. In fact fake shutters really, really annoy me. They are everywhere you look and they take a…

I had been missing getting out in nature with my family. So we took a short walk at Fort Sheridan on Sunday and it felt nice. 

In 2019, when we were still living in Switzerland, Brian and I were invited to the wedding of a friend and work colleague. But that never happened, the pandemic happened instead. The wedding was delayed multiple times and in the meantime the couple got married in a courthouse and had a baby. When we found…

Here are some photos from the first part of our trip to Italy. We flew into Milan and spent one night in Modena. And then we drove on to Sienna to spend a few days. 20 years ago – for our honeymoon – we traveled to four Italian cities (Verona, Bolzano, Venice and Sienna). It…

Here's my last batch of photos from our trip to Italy. These places were all new to us.  Between Siena and the wedding venue we stopped in the city of Arezzo. Another pretty hilltop city with astonishingly old buildings and artwork. All over Tuscany we saw swallows flying around. The Italian swallows have white bellies…

or just checking his emails? From the military academy in Modena.

Brian and I are back from Italy and full of gelato. We made some great memories and took lots of photos. I'll report soon.

I made two pairs of shorts for Claire's Birthday – summer will be here someday right (?). And for myself I tried a new pattern called the Marcel Dress/Top. I think this dress would make a nice beach coverup. To try the pattern out I used an old sheet for a muslin and since I'm…