Carnevale

On Tuesday we celebrated Carnevale. If we were in Italy, we would have no doubt gone to a dress-up party and we would have seen many little ones going around, dressed in their favourite heroes or Disney characters. Here in the UK, however, they don't celebrate Carnevale, so it was much quiter. What's Carnevale for us, it's Pancake Day for them and we tried to combine the two celebrations.

It was a gorgeous sunny day in London so we got ready and went out for a nice stroll. Emilia decided to be a ballerina for a day and was wearing a lovely tutu dress together with her Frozen magic wand. We made colourful masks and baked lots of traditional biscuits that we enjoyed for dessert together with lovely pancakes made by Rob. All in all it was a very "sweet" day!

Double Celebration

As a three-nationality family, we embrace every celebration from Italy, the US and the UK (and sometimes even more!). And today is a double celebration for us: it's Carnevale in Italy and Pancake Day in England.

We started the morning with a rich and colourful breakfast; for the occasion we made yellow, pink and blue pancakes and we added blueberries in the batter of the yellow ones for extra fun. 

 

 

 

Even Emilia was allowed to have some and she loved them. In fact, she was in such a cheerful mood that she even grabbed her Union Jack and started humming the national anthem! Cute. 

 

After breakfast, we dressed and walked with daddy to his office. I didn't buy a proper Carnival mask/outfit for Emilia but I still wanted to put something Carnivalesque on. So, here she is, queen for a day. A very modern, rock-chick version of the Queen. 

 

 

Buon Carnevale, Happy Pancake Day or whatever you are celebrating in whichever part of the world you are. I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Festivities

Whether you call it Mardi Gras, Carnevale or Pancake Day, today is a day to celebrate. In Italy all kids (and adults!) dress up and attend parties for Carnevale, in the UK everyone eats pancakes. As an Italian-British-(+American) family we combined the two festivities and had a lovely day.

Emilia dressed up as a ballerina.

 

 

And I was queen for a day.

And for dinner we had lovely pancakes with maple syrup and blueberries. 

Whatever the reason, it is always fun to celebrate!