~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.