I cannot believe that summer is almost over and I haven’t posted one picture at all. We have been busy but not really. We had a few goals for the summer…the major one being to conquer the pool. We accomplished this by spending as much time in the pool as possible. We set up our pool in our yard, went to the public pools a lot and took swimming lessons as well as swimming at friends’ pools whenever invited.
When school was over in June, the boys had one week of fun and then we got down to business with swimming lessons, which Rocco, Luciano and Massimo have pretty much continuously been taking all summer. We have chronicled this summer based on Swimming Lesson Sessions!
Session 1: In mid-June, they started off with Rocco in Level 2, Luciano in Preschool and Massimo & Me were enrolled in the Mommy & Me class. But Massimo was doing so well that after 2 classes, he was moved up to the Preschool class with Luciano. Yay for me, now I could sit poolside with my girlfriends for 50 minutes each day, gossiping and drinking coffee!!! Imagine, 50 whole minutes where I don’t have to watch my kids (ok, so maybe I do anyway, but that is not the point!)
At the end of June (and still during Session 1), my mom Darleen and brother Mike (yes, the chef!) arrived for a visit. Mike was here for a week and during that time, we took a wonderful trip to Tuscany (more on that later!).
After my brother returned to the States, my mother spent an additional 5 weeks with us, during which time I had surgery to have half of my thyroid removed (in April, my doctor found a fairly large nodule on it). The procedure was successful (I had a great surgeon!), it was a fairly quick recovery period (only 2 weeks) and the scar is slowing fading. And good news, pathology reports came back that the nodule was benign!
Okay, I have spent too much time online already. We have to get to the grocery store and then to a friend’s house to, yes, you guessed it, go SWIMMING! I promise, I will blog more later about our summer!!! Ciao ciao for now!
