It's been nearly three months since I posted here. But we've been all kinds of busy. Crazy stressful busy. My DH found employment in December and we've worked and prayed and worked some more. Around the same time we started working to survive we received possible good news. The previous spring my husband's beloved grandmother passed away. She led an amazing life that lasted nearly 97 years. In fact she was an incredible beautiful talented lady. She will be missed.
With this news we started thinking about our future. Hard work would always be part of our future but we might have the ability to change our lives. We had always played with the idea of travel and Italy. But we'd recently also tossed around the idea of owning a restaurant. Owning a restaurant is a safe idea. But owning a restaurant is also really hard work and hard on a marriage. Sixty plus hour work weeks and my marriage suffering due to lack of attention is not something I'm willing to run head first into knowingly.
So after investigating the restaurant idea for six weeks we decided to go with a totally different option. Thus the Italian dream was reborn. The questions of how, what, when were needing to be answered. Teaching English seemed like the most likely choice of things that we can do effectively. Both of us being college educated and native speakers of English, it would be the most straight forward transition. We have a blog, fb page, Twitter feed and instagram as well. Www.chasingItaly.com
DH has high hopes of writing a book or something. Eventually we'd like to travel and blog and get paid to do so. Until that comes to fruition we'll teach English, learn Italian, and experience life outside of America.
