Erika and I had lunch with Erin and Pietro yesterday. It was a real “Italian treat”. I am savoring every minute I get to see them before they head back to Rome next week

Erin graciously carried gifts all the way across the Atlantic for us, from the Fabriano Boutique. All of the cards+paper goods she gave us are so neat, I do not know if I will be able to bring myself to actually use them.

The goodies came wrapped in fun yellow enevelope

from my favorite Italian family…

And now you can take a peak for yourself, and understand how excited I felt when I peered into the envelope to find all of these YUMMY PAPER GOODS…

Really the assortment was great, the cards (if I can bring myself to use the pretty things) ranged from “WELL DONE” to…

“CONGRATULATIONS!

and one of my favorites being the one that read simply reads GRAZIE. I can say, “thank-you” is one of the few Italian words I perfected while I was in Italy all of last spring.

THANKS ERIN!! You are a sweet, sweet friend! I treasure your friendship, and your families too!