It feels SO GOOD to settle into some sense of normalcy, to putter around the house doing laundry, organizing stuff, planning the next week's menu, etc. I'm still dealing with a little bit of guilt on the days that I'm NOT running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I have been in GO!GO!GO! mode for three years, and it's hard to undo those habits and just slow it down and be okay with doing less.  This post will hopefully demonstrate some of the new habits that I'm striving for, along with plenty of photos of the beautiful scenery that we encounter here every day.  Our appointment was perfectly successful when we went to the Soggiorno Office on Caserma Ederle (the main base in Vicenza). I say "perfectly successful" because the lady was very impressed that we didn't forget anything and that the forms were all filled out correctly. This was the follow-up to our appointment at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco last month. It's still going...