Santa Claus is coming to Town ;)

You better watch out
You better not cry
better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,
and checking it twice;
gonna find out
Who's naughty and nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
so be good for goodness sake!

Oh! You better watch out!
You better not cry.
better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town

 Santa Claus is coming to town.

X'Mas cake for kindergarden

This afternoon I have prepared a small cake to take kindergarden, last week teachers have asked on occasion of the Christams show of the kids, cakes,sweets and fresh pasta will be sold and money will be used for kindergarden for what kids need.

I am not able to make fresh pasta or sweets so I made a chokolate cake :)

Momochan was amused about my decorations she wanted to help but it was terribly late and Momochan has to sleep because tomorrow she has her impoortant show, kids have learned by heart some Christmas song and a poetry created by the teachers on purpose, she is very jouzu :)

Every kid has a part in the show, Momochan and a small group of kids have to be cats and they have a kind of special funny dance HAHAHA

letter to Santa Claus :)

For the second year, teachers of kindergarden have organized a special box where to take letters for Santa Claus, every kid has to make one.

Yesterday I had prepared a sheet of paper for Momochan with special images and togather we have coloured and she has told me what to write then I have decorated it all with a special gold glue to make it brilliant and shiny.

Momo loved it so much that she has asked me to make a copy to keep home so today after dinner before finishing the cake to take kindergarden tomorrow for the Christmas market (meanwhile baking in the oven) we were colouring the second letter, putting the glitter and signing the letter :)

And here it is on the left, angels, stars, X'Mas Tree, packet, bell, ribbon, a sphere.

Well, seems really this year is something different and good, there is a new air in our family with the change of house and this funny letter of Momo so sweet is really unusual, she has not really asked for present but just to have daddy home and amuse alltogather, have serenity for her mum (always hysteric because of the troubles wee have had) so sweet baby, sometimes she doesn't even seem a 4 year old kid but older :)

roadhouse grill :)

Today I had a special program for Momochan, we had planned to go restaurant as a special prize for X'mas holidays, also because in this restaurant on tuesday kids eat free so I just needed to pay for me :)
Momochan loves to go restaurant and it was so long time we were not going out for lunch. The Roadhouse is a grill meat restaurant near home and it is the only restaurant in town where there are special reduced prices for children and also from today for a short period adding a coca cola to the menu as present I would have had a key holder shaped red coca cola bottle which is really a 4gb pc key :) a cute X'Mas present for me.Momochan loves chicken so I ordered for her a portion of chiken teners with fried potatoes and for me I took more or less the same thing (see fotos) and I added a potato with sauce.
Momochan eated everything and asked for other chiken stick from my dish HAHAHA she is so sweet when she is amusing :)

Christmas dinner :)

In a short time we will have to prepare a X'mas menu and still we have not decided what to do also we have to decide which presents to have and buy for Momochan, I will put them under the Tree we have in the livingroom during the night of 24, just the ones Santa Claus is taking, the ones we personally give to Momo will be set before :)

We have already inside the fridge the Swedish X'Mas ham, I guess we will add some veggies and make a dish of salami and ham, eventually we can have some tortellini in broth. The rest we will think at within some days :)

coffeeeeeeeeeee :)

This morning we have to go shopping, daddy is not working in the morning so we have a little time.

Our fridge is "hungry" it is empty, we need milk, yogurt, ham and wiener for Momochan, veggies for me, roast meat and potatoes for sunday, some other products for home and daddy.
We also need to give a look around and think at the menu for Xmas holydays, panettone, roast meat, "mostarda", sweets ... but before going we need a pit-stop at our preferred coffe shop :)

The coffee shop is already decorated for Christmas and everywhere special decorated panettoni (X'mas cake) and metallic wrapped ones, shine for every corner of the store giving a special light inside.

Momochan is happy when we go there, daddy and I have a coffee and sometimes a croissant, sometimes Momochan has a croissant and sometimes she drinks juice (I take it from home).

Now we are ready to go (in the first foto here on the left, daddy, the one with the red jacket in the corner is ready to pay and go out while Momo is still eating choko bar :)

Greta's birthday :)

Today Momochan has been invited at a birthday party from a kindergarden friend, for the occasion while she was school I went to the nearest Ikea store to buy a present for the friend, a nice book about the story of a small hedgehog and his new friends.
When at 16.00 I went to take Momochan, the friend's mom was waiting for us to take us to the party because it was inside our town but quite far and with snow and by feet we would not have possibility to go. Once arrived while mommy was preparing inside for the party, Momochan and I played outside and builted a snowman :) Soon it was dark, cold and humid so we got inside while the other kids were arriving at the party.

blowing the bday candle

A girl payd for the occasion had games, makeup kids, music and dance and soap bubbles :) Momochan amused a lot, she also received a flying helium balloon to take home and once again we were lucky to find exactly someone who lives in the same building as us who took us home at 19.30. It was still snowing and once home I showered Momochan, changed her and put something hot and dry, then she said she was tired and wanted just milk, I was still full of sandwiches, cake and sweets so neither I prepared dinner for me. Momochan said she wanted to sleep in our bed instead of her room and I prepared another milk bottle for her (tomorrow we need to go supermaket with daddy for shopping, we need milk and other items).

snow !!!

This morning is snowing ! Snow has begun to fall yesterday night and has gone on all night long so this morning everything is white, cold and soft.

This is what we see from the bedroom window, left foto is the entrance to elementary school Momochan will attend in 2 years and behind this there is kindergarden she is going now. Left foto is a building we have to care for because they are veeery near us and they can see inside our room so I have always to close the curtains as soon as I wake up before dressing HAHAHA !
To go kindergarden I have to cover Momochan very hot and after I will have to go Ikea store to buy a present for a birthday party she has to go in the afternoon, I will take the chance to have a long walk in the snow :)
Left foto behind: Momochan is arrived at school, she has changed and had weared her apron and orange collar, a kiss for goodbye and we will see at 16.00 o'clock to go to the party :)

Rise of the Guardians

Since a few days there is pubblicity on tv  regarding a small trailer of a new cartoon film shown in the cinema: Rise of The Guardians (in Italy named: The 5 Legends). It tells about five heroes, North (Santa Claus) Calmoniglio (the Easter Bunny) Dentina (the fairy of teeth), Sandman and Frost who have to fight against the bad and ugly Pitch, "the black man". Momochan would like to see, it could be a great idea to go during X'Mas holidays alltogather to have a relax day, take pop corn and have a family day :)

CALMONIGLIO

JACK FROST

NORTH (SANTA CLAUS)

PITCH

SANDMAN

DENTINA (TOOTH FAIRY)

peppa pig :)

For Christmas time a tv newspaper is selling togather two dvd of character Peppa Pig. We thought it can be a cute idea for Momochan who is fond of Peppa, to make a present for X'Mas,one dvd is tellig storyes about X'mas and the other about birthday :) I will go down to the newspaper store to take or reserve it.

x'mas tree :)

We have decorated our new Ikea X'mas Tree, Momochan has helped with little spheres and snow flakes and at last she has put the star on the top :)

House is strange, not much decorated because is so big but anyway we have some decoration here and there :)

let it snow let it snow :)

It' s a holiday season ... let it snow, let it snow, let it snow !!!

I am sitting on the sofa in the new livingroom, we have prepared the X'mas Tree and right now Momochan is taking a nap in her new bedroom, outside meanwhile since half an hour is snowing !!! WOW

Yesterday the sky was totally blue without any cloud but during the night the sky have been covered by a thick cloudy mattress and today after long time thinking, it has begun snowing. Soft tiny flakes fall down from the sky freezing everywhere, guess up inthe mountains already people ski like every year in this starting ski season. While I am wrintig the vases on my balcony are covering with a light snow "blanket", if it will go on like this tomorrow we will have opportunity to make snowmen :)

When Momochan will awake we will do pop-corn and watch cartoon on tv, do puzzles, sing and dance X'mas songs.

name day :)

When we came home at six, daddy was already inside, he had finished work and has gone supermarket for shopping. Granny would have arrived in short time.

While Momochan was playing and daddy cooking I prepared the table then granny arrived.

Daddy prepared rice and potatoes, I cooked inside oven a roast with oter veggies and as you see in the foto, cake is a strudel we served with whippedd cream and berries :) also Momochan had a slice and said it was delicious.

hair cut :)

Today is my name day and as present Momo and I will go to the hairdresser to have our hair cut :) As yousee Momochan hair are really long and she says she dislikes the hair in her eyes and also she wants to be prettier for Christmas, she is all excited about it and cannot wait to make the Tree on friday (S. Ambrogio).

This evening granny will come for dinner and she will stay for the night, since lasta time she came some things inside house have changed even if we still do not have any table inside the kitchen :( but anyway we will have roastedd meat with potatoes and strudel cake with whipped cream and forest fruits:)

here we are in the new house :)

Here we are, the moving is finishedand we definitely live in the new house. Still there is much to personalize like hanging curtains, putting some plants for green inside, decorating in general, buying the new little table to eat inside the kitchen as before, buy the new cabinet to put over the sink with dishes rack inside, putting rugs in Momochan's bedroom and in the middle between tv set and sofa ...

We are still feeling strange here, I do not consider this house as my house, not yet, sensation is really strange, we love this house but still is not yet "our house" still lacks of something I do not know what it is.

Momochan loves her new bedroom, we are feeling strange in our one because we have not had the possibility to take our enormous wardrobe with us, it was too old and too big so we have some plastic boxes with our belongings inside.

I like to stay in the livingroom and look outside, from there I can see the street under us, I can hear ducks, see the houses in front, people passing by, is so funny, before in the old house, I could only look outside in the distance or down in the garden, here I can see an entire small world.

I have taken my flowers and plants and hanged outside on the balcony, next spring Momochan and I will go to buy new coloured flowers to put outside (orange, yellow, blue, pink peonies, a lemon tree ...)  my special old watch hangs on the wall over the entrance door and sings every hour with a different X'mas music (now ducks are singing) I can seat on the sofa with a cup of tea and rest, now we have repaired the roller shutter and livingroom now is lighted by natural light :) here are some of the fotos we have taken at home theese days :)

entrance and corridor to thebedrooms

table corner inthe livingroom

my Ikea Besta furniture for books and tv

corridor

Momochan bedroom

Momochan bedroom

our new kitchen

our kitchen still withno table

our bedroom still with no wardrobe