I love it here. I love our neighbors, the scenery, and the slower paced lifestyle that we are living. I am trying a lot of new recipes, some are wonderful and some I will never make again. I am expanding my horizons and trying to new food that my neighbor brings me to try, except this last item that she made, salmon and zucchini cake. These two items mixed together in Italy are pretty popular, but I am not too interested in trying it. I like the two things cooked separately and will stick to that for a little while longer.
I love going and walking around the morning weekly markets with Jacoby and Nico. We buy fun snacks, fresh fruits and breads, and sample most of it before we even get back to the car.
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| Taralli, an Italian snack food similar to a cracker (but way better). The whole family loves finding these gems at the markets. |
I joined a book/travel club last month through our base library. The group reads the book and then meets at the end of the month to discuss it. Then they chooses a place in Italy that relates to the book and take a short trip to explore. The current read is Bella Figura and I read it faster than most other books in the past. It was such a good read. It was about a woman originally from Iran, who lived in London most of her life, and travelled to Florence Italy for a year to focus on herself. How she describes the people here in Italy is so on point. She talks about a lot of differences between London with the fast paced life style to how it is here in Italy. I really enjoyed the recipes she shared in the book. One was a fennel and blood orange salad, it was super yummy.
The boys are still loving Lego's, so we venture off to the Lego store about an hour away once a month. After the Lego store we stop for sorbet in the same mall. David and I enjoy the espresso and sorbet. Our family enjoys the sorbet over the overly famous gelato. There are more dairy free options for Nico with the Sorbet, and I think we are in agreement as a family that our Ben & Jerry's ice cream is better than the local gelato. Everyone should try in when they visit Italy, but I am happier to have a local espresso than the gelato.
I am still struggling with anxiety, and few panic attacks still. A few months back I came off of my anxiety medicine because it was causing more harm than good. I was having continuous chest pain, spouts of anger, and was more anxious on the medicine than off. I decided to try to balance out my hormones with some vitamins and those didn't work. So I am going back to what worked for me years ago when I wanted to come off anxiety medicine that I was taking for Postpartum Depression. I used the product Plexus for 6 months previously when I wanted to come off the anxiety meds and it worked wonders. After those 6 months I didn't feel like I needed it anymore and have been fine since. As of about two weeks ago I am back taking it daily and hoping and praying it works for me again. I have signed up as an Ambassador for Plexus because I believe in this product and just want to share with friends and family who are wanting freedom from their medications as well. This time I will not be coming off of the Plexus. I know that there are a ton of products on the market and I am not here to convince you to try this particular product. But, if you are anything like me and hate how you feel on medicine and could be taking something more natural then maybe this is for you too. Click on my link and message me with any questions. I have noticed in the two weeks I have been taking Plexus that I have more energy, I am sleeping better, I have started running again (this is huge, I haven't worked out in 5 months), I don't have sugar cravings or daily crashes, and I have lost the desire for my morning coffee. The first time I used this product I never gave up the coffee, but this time the desire for it is gone. This doesn't mean I will not have a coffee, or an Italian espresso, it simply means that the craving/habit is gone.
Thanks for reading and please stay tuned for more of my journey in Italy!
