Today we start the first day of our Easter holiday. It’s Monday and we just drove back from Caldas. We went up on Saturday after Nuno’s soccer and Lana’s piano recital so that we could join our friends for a community dinner and  to have lunch at my friend Marta’s on Sunday.
I am sitting here avoiding unpacking. It was a trickier pack-up this weekend as we had to bring back things for our upcoming trip to Barcelona (SO EXCITED!) and I had taken up heaps of laundry since we don’t have a drier in the city. Â I really don’t feel like unpacking. In part, because I wish I were in Caldas just being an absolute slug for the next 4 days. Thing is, my kids’ friends are here in the city and it is more important for them to be with their mates, than it is for me to be with mine right now. But as I sit here, and they are both at their friends’ house I must say, I am happy. No matter how simple a thing it is to have friends, I am so grateful for my children having yet again found some fun and also kind children to befriend. As a mother, I know what an incredible blessing this is in my life. So let me just pause and say thank you.
Do you follow Lisboeta tradition and hang the clothes out to dry over the street from windows or porch? When in Rome…or is that already “passe” in Portugal?
To be honest, we are not officially in the city, but in Cascais, but that sounds so pompous. It’s actually been raining a lot, so it’s been a dance with bringing the clothes airers in and out of the house and luck has had it that there have been a couple of downpours when I was out of the apartment…and the clothes were too!
I’m so happy that the kids are getting adjusted to their new world. Has it been a year since you arrive in Portugal?
It’s been over a year. We arrived in early February.
Hard to believe! How very cool.