So...I'm back after a brief blogging "hiatus"! February and March are busy months in our household...with three birthdays, an anniversary, and that other "Hallmark" holiday we celebrate on the 14th :). Feel like I'm finally coming up for air! In the past few weeks, my daily break time (when I usually do most of my research) has been otherwise occupied by the adventures or mis-adventures of our crazy family. You may or may not know....but we currently live in Sicily! Just outside of Catania, Sicily to be exact. For any fellow genealogists whose ancestors or ethnicity can be traced to particular areas of Sicily, I'm more than willing to snap photos of places and spaces if you wish. Just send me a message, and I'll see what I can do. Given my lack of exciting research news to post (currently in what I'm calling a "dry season" for groundbreaking revelations)...here are a few photos from our family outing today to a beautiful city...