Only in Italy will you find...

I thought I would write about some differences we have learned to adapt to these past months living in Italy. 

Above is a transformer. We use these on any of our American electronics that are not dual voltage. Each transformer can only take so many watts so you have to be careful or you can blow your transformer. We had a 300 watt transforer and I plugged my iron into it and it blew. The iron was 1500 watts! Crazy.

Italy recycles. Its def a huge life change. And its not like in America where you have a huge trash can and a huge recycle can. NO we have a little can for non recycable things (dirty towels, diapers), we have one for glass, we have one for card board/paper, we have one for food wates, and one for plastics! PHEW! 

                             We are issued a washer and dryer, I got a huge American fridge, but I didnt luck out in the oven department. Since my oven is build in. I have a Italian oven. It has one rack I will be surprised if a 5 pound turkey will fit in here. The settings are crazy, Im still trying to fig it out.

See what I mean!

This is in Celsius. Instead of converting it. I usually just put it on max LOL

Here is our cabinets for plates, bowls ect neat.

Our walls are cemet. AND A PAIN. We have to be careful and use special nails to hang stuff.

This is my DRYER It takes literally 3 hours to dry something. And its not like in America. The dyer

sucks the water out of your close. They aren't dried by just heat. And then you have this gallon thing that

pulls out and  you have to empty the water. I don't use it unless for emergency's since it takes so long, its a waste. 

This string is in all our showers. If you pull it it makes this ringing door bell sound in the whole house.
I suppose its for emergencies. But it also sounds identical to our door bell. So we get each other now and then with it. LOL

The Bidet

There is only 1 in our house out of the 3 bedrooms. Of course its in Ethans bathroom so he constantly plays with it!

These are our light switches. And still we dont always know what turns on what. Its kind of annoying lol!

This is not our phone. Our house has a gate. So when people visit, they ring our gate buzzer. We answer and can unlock our yard gate from the phone. Pretty cool Eh?!

The different plugs we have on our electronics here in italy. And the wall plugs.

Fall Festival

Buzz, Bo Peep and Woody from Toy Story! 

We went to the bases fall festival. It was a lot of fun and Ethan got a big bag of candy. There were tons of booths set up. Before we left Ethan saw Josh and said "WOODY!". That was the first time he has ever said woody. It was funny lol. Everyone at the festival were excited about Ethan and Joshs costumes. :)

Park Time!

ALS is over

Last week Josh graduated and finished ALS. It was such a relief. Im sure more for him. He was crazy busy.
They had the graduation ceremony last Thursday night. It was nice. And I was very proud of him. :)

Now life is back to normal for now. He started work and has a whole different job than at Ellsworth (South Dakota). Im just glad things are smoother now.

Ethan and I start at the volunteer daycare on base in a week. He will be in a room and I will volunteer in another room. Should be good for us. He was very excited to play with "FRIENDS" while I was doing the orientation. 

We really need to start talking more about potty training. Right now he dosent care about it. His doctor said that if he isint interested to not even start. Im glad she said that. I feel everyone is always rushing thier kids into things. 

Fall is here!

The weather is cooling down here. Some days its cooler in the morning then warmer towards the middle of the day. But it has been nice. We have gotten some rain also. 

We have been busy unpacking and organizing the house. Everything is almost together. Just have a few more boxes in my craft room! :)

Josh finishes school tomorrow! So his graduation dinner is tomorrow night. I will post pics of that event afterwards. 

Im currently in the process of starting to volunteer at this coop daycare on base. Its all volunteer ran by moms. Its open 9-12 all week. But basically you volunteer one day 9-12 then the rest of the week you can drop your kid off and do errands and what not for free. 

It will be nice to get Ethan and I out of the house. He also can use the time to play with new friends. But had a physical and tb shot. So have to turn in that paperwork tomorrow and should just wait for my references to clear.