Lice! I hate them!!

The end of September did not go so well! Maya had been scratching her head a lot for a couple of days . . . but I did not think anything of it! On Sunday I decided to have a look . . . at first I did not want to believe it, I called Maury over, I went out side, we thought maybe she just had fleas (I know silly). No, she had lice! In Italy - nothing is open on Sundays, no drugstores, no supermarkets NOTHING . . . so I started to panic a little and called around to the other rugby families. Luckily - one of the girls had some shampoo left by the family that used to live in our house (great). The problem was that the directions were in Italian! So I had a friend translate the directions and then I went home to rage war on the lice (war is ok against lice I have decided)!! As I am cleaning the house, doing the laundry and getting Maya to bed the power goes off for 2 hours . . . Monday comes and as I am doing more laundry and the power goes out again!! UHGG

It was a rough week . . .

First Day of School - 16-24 more years to go!!

After three attempts to enroll Caden at the 'scuola per l'europa" in Parma and being told to come back because; no one speaks english; the person you need is gone; and the electricity is being worked on . . . I finally enrolled Caden on Monday the day before school started. On Tuesday morning Maury and I packed up the kids and left for school at 7:30 am (school starts at 8:30 but there is no parking at the school so you have to leave early in order to find a parking place). Caden woke up quite excited for the 'special' day. After using our Garmond to find the school we found a parking place right away and we waited with the rest of the students and parents until the doors to the school opened. Once the doors opened we all crammed through at once (this is so typical here :)) and walked our little ones up to class.

Straightaway we liked Caden's teacher - she seemed kind and patient (both nesecary qualitiess in dealing with our little "pirate"). Caden seemed fascinated by the classroom- he found a book about sea creatures . . . Maury and I could have left and he never would have noticed! We spoke with the teacher a little more (gave her our phone numbers because the information that we gave to the office had not made it to her) and said our goodbyes to our little, big boy! He did not seem concerned with our leaving one bit.

The kids in his class are from all over the world - I absolutely love that about his school. He is meeting kids who speak other languages, and have different customs and beliefs. My prayer for him is that through his experience at school he will become a person who is interested in and respects other cultures, and ways of "living life!"

Of course I cried a little on our drive home . . .

For me, this was the end of sleeping in and having some early morning freedom . . . as much as he is growing up I realize I had to as well. On hard days I have longed for the start of school. . . but now I dont feel quite ready . . .

(the picture is of when I picked Caden up from school)