Time goes really fast, and here in Scotland we almost didn’t realize it is already summer… such a cold one!During the last 2-3 months we experienced some ups and downs.
Flavio left his ‘time and energy demanding’ job as a postman and joined a Starbucks store as a barista, soon supervisor to be. He is still keeping his second part time job as a cook for Bethany Christian Trust, which means working about 60 hrs a week and most of the time not enjoying an entire full day off a week.
Cinzia instead has been enduring quite a lot of late shifts at work, quite annoying… also considering that this way her schedule wouldn’t quite match Flavio’s one.
But in the midst of this all, a great event took place and we are very glad to share with our friends and family our fantastic news:
We are expecting a baby in the beginning of February 2008! God is good!
We are so excited!!
Finding time for our studies has been quite a challenge so far and lately the motivation really dropped. We need God’s grace more then ever, and His help on discipline.Although both of us lack of local friendships, which are effort and time-demanding, in the last two months we had some good friends visiting us. We played some games with Peter Cloke and Peter Atkins, who live here.
Also, Chris Keeler came to visit us from Catania just before his return to the States and Mr Kevin Smith on his way to Vicky and Nathan’s wedding also came to visit us for few days. It was really nice to see them all.
Soon in August we are going for our summer break to have a short holiday with Cinzia’s family in Italy, to get some rest and some ‘hit’ on one of the Italian beaches of Abruzzo. Hopefully when we come back to the UK, our energies are refilled and we are ready to start a new season.
And hopefully, we will be back in the UK without problem. Visa related matters are always too complicated to explain and understand... we are still battling for Flavio's visa. If God wants us we will be here!
