Welcome to Mad City

House by: Frank Lloyd Wright, Madison-WI

Mendota Lake, Madison-WI

Madison-WI

House by: Frank Lloyd Wright, Madison-WI

We are learning how to love our new city. Madison is our new home since March this year and we have been falling in love with it little by little. Since the very first day we got here, Madison felt right, the decision of coming here felt right, even though it was so cold that March 4th, Madison welcomed my family and myself with very warm arms and a big snowy smile. We like it here, it has lots of character, nice, mellow people, a wonderful university with great, old campus buildings, great lakes, tons of things to do with the kids, a charming and very urban little downtown, lots of parks for D and a good -affordable- life style. We like Madison, not thinking a lot about the winter 'cause I don't want to get scared quite yet, but so far, so VERY good.

p.s. cute nickname: mad city

Kindergarten

It seems we have finally found a school we really like for D. to start elementary school next fall. I know, it seems so early to start the process, but in order to pick the school we really wanted we needed to start this early. What a relief. What a big relief. We toured at least 10 schools in the last 2 months. In our district, out of our district, public schools and private schools, charter schools and whatever's left in the middle, and somehow there was always something that didn't click to me when touring all those schools. All of them -btw- with very high scores and super nice reviews, but still, there was something that didn't convince me. It happened the same to me when I was looking for preschools for D. two years ago. I visited many, until I went to one that felt right to me instantly, it felt right in my heart. And that was how I felt yesterday morning when we visited the very last school in our list to tour, it felt right. I liked the school, thank God, I liked

Copenhagen

I've had this city in my mind for a while. Never been there, but every time I research about trips to Europe I bump into a Copenhagen article, link, photo and I get more and more interested and excited about this city. In pictures it just looks like the kind of city I like. Here my inspiration for today Friday, a few photos of gorgeous Copenhagen. All photos by: littlescandinavian.com (one of my favorite blogs). Happy weekend. Healthy and peaceful.

Worth taking a look

some new findings I adore. 5 blogs I just discovered. (all the pictures belong to the blogs featured on this post) mynotebook-moa.blogspot.com http://littlescandinavian.com/ http://mylittleday.fr/blog/ http://abutterflyinyourhouse.blogspot.com/ http://kidshaus.typepad.com/kidshaus/

things I like

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