My new favorite: Nutella pound cake

Good morning friends and happy Friday!

It looks like my Friday posts are a little delayed lately, but at least I am posting them, right? I used to write them on Thursday in order to have everything ready to go on Friday, but in the last few weeks I have been busy or just forgot to write on Thursday.

I hope you had a nice, long weekend last week, we did and had many things planned: we went to the airport to pick up my husband from a trip to Europe, we went grocery shopping, we had a brunch and carved pumpkins at our house and on Monday we went to the MFA in Boston. I have to say, long weekends are a lot of fun, but also a lot of work: because of the disrupted schedule, my kids are all over the place, they watch tv and then they get cranky when we turn it off, they get over excited and then over tired, does this happen to your kids too?

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Our favorite Fall and Halloween themed books

Good morning friends,

Happy Friday! I am very happy that the weekend is so close and next week we will have Monday off too, which is always nice.

I am sorry I did not post last week, but it has been an eventful week, many things to do and I was still trying to figure out our schedules with school, events, sports. The kids were very active, we were (and we still are now) dealing with some tantrums, fighting, crying, it looks like the energy is so much that they can`t manage it, but I am sure this is something that every family has to deal with, especially in this time of the year, when the school started, but I feel like we are still adjusting and the holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas) are approaching.

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