yes, it's just us. nino met dia and they were brought the long (really long, like 6 years long) way around to find one another once more, years later, to fall in love, get married and have three wonderful children. now we travel between our two countries and the people we love, our families in texas and in sicily. it's so hard to be just one place! for now we are established in texas, dia homeschools the kids: chase, 14, michela, 13 and anne-marie 11, and nino roasts fabulous italian espresso and sells it to his fortunate customers.
we have three kids, one dog, pepper, who is half black lab and half bassett hound...what a combination, but perfect for us, ... and chickens. we thought we had 8 hens but long story short, we have 3 hens, 4 roosters and what we think is just a homogeneous black and cream banty. it's too small to be either, we've decided. more on that later.
we have a little land, big enough to have a riding mower and a tractor but not big enough to be a farm, according to the county tax people (:?). we love, love, love being together. we tried putting the kids in school this year and that lasted about a month. we were all miserable, longed for our freedom and to be together again. we do have fun together; we are a loud, brash, passionate and hilarious family. i wouldn't trade us for the world.
i might post in italian once in a while, but if you're really interested just do the google translator...not too tough if you're really interested. so that's it. just us.
