Author: jessica

Living

The Christmas Season (by Josh!)

Season’s Greetings!  This is Josh providing (limited) blogging relief to Jessica, for the first of a couple of holiday-themed posts… Fact:  Italians know how to entertain and enjoy life.  Each day is a celebration of food and drink and family.  So when one of the biggest holidays of the year rolls around, it should surprise […]

Musings

Adventure of a Lifetime

‘Tis the season when Spotify (my streaming music service of choice) offers “Your Top Songs 2016” as a playlist. They know exactly what I’ve been listening to all year. It was not surprising to see Coldplay’s Adventure of a Lifetime top the list. We’ve adopted that as our family theme song for the year, and I […]

Italy, Travel

A Roman Holiday

What do you do when your kids get a two day national holiday to celebrate the feast of the immaculate conception?! You go to Rome, naturally. We have been enjoying the “new” national holidays here and look forward to the extra days that the kids have off from school. In LA, random days off were a […]