From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Beary Merry Holidays

December 30, 2005

The Christmas holiday has gotten much brighter since Angel Girl arrived. Not only did she arrive without jet lag, she got her Christmas wish. Her Christmas wish was for snow. We will go out this afternoon or tomorrow and attempt to bring Aunt Julie back to life. I would like to take Angel Girl to [...]

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Angel Girl has landed!

December 28, 2005

I am a very content mother right at this moment. It is a little after 9:30 in the morning and I have a sleeping Angel in her bed. Mama has all her children under her roof. I feel complete. When Angel Girl is away from me I always have a feeling that I am missing [...]

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Unknown artist

December 23, 2005

In France the walls are first wallpapered and then painted. It is easy to see where Sweet Bear, who is very close to getting her old nickname (the little monster) back, has torn off the paper on one wall in her bedroom. She did this last summer. Today, she has created a masterpiece on one [...]

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The case of the missing shoelaces

December 22, 2005

Petite Clown likes to take her shoelaces out of her shoes every chance she gets! The brown shoelace is from another pair of her shoes that she outgrew and a couple months ago I had to put them in these shoes because I could not find the original ones. Well, you guessed it! She has [...]

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How Aunt Julie came to life that day

December 21, 2005

Aunt Julie is the name of the snow woman in this picture. Angel Girl and I made Aunt Julie with my mother in Ohio about seven years ago. Aunt Julie has long melted away, but the memory of glowing cheeks and warm laughter spilling across a cold snowy day still remain with all of us. [...]

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Sending Christmas cheer

December 21, 2005

The top two pictures are of the Strasbourg Christmas Market which is one of the biggest and oldest in the world. People from all over come to see it. The last picture is of a typical French Christmas window full of goodies. All retail windows are decked out in beautiful Christmas cheer throughout France this [...]

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Merry Christmas from Strasbourg, France

December 21, 2005

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Snow Dazd

December 20, 2005

The snow looked scary enough at first coming down in huge beautiful flakes covering everything in a thin blanket. However, it was all a front and nothing is left to show for it except for these pictures I took. So, here are some pictures from my french window of the second snow fall of the [...]

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Chili in the pot!

December 17, 2005

Thank you, Mom and Trav, for sending me a little bit of home for the holidays! I made chili soup like back home for dinner tonight. My brother sent me Brooks brand chili beans in the can and some chili powder back in the summer and my mother sent me saltine crackers with the girls [...]

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Mange Mama

December 14, 2005

I was about five and a half months pregnant with Boy Blue in this picture and now Boy Blue is five and a half months old! I was looking through the pics on our computer trying to find some I may have missed to post on Flickr for my parents. I decided this particular picture [...]

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Pros and cons of using drugs in France

December 13, 2005

Prescription drugs the “French” way: As you can see from this picture the pharmacist has HANDWRITTEN the dosage instructions on each box. Inside each of these boxes is a paper listing all the warnings and possible side effects and is provided by the drug manufacturer. Simple, to say the least. While living in America it [...]

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Warm breeze with blue skies

December 11, 2005

I want to thank the person that left me the comment below. You were just the warm breeze this girl needed to dry off quickly from my tumble out of my canoe! Thank you. I started blogging to have a “window” to the world outside my private life in France as an expat. Sometimes, I [...]

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Personal issues

December 10, 2005

I am having some personal problems and have decided to stop blogging for a while. I don’t know if it will be a week or month. But, right this moment I want to concentrate on myself and my children. There are lots of great blogs by fab people out there about France and other countries. [...]

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I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!

December 10, 2005

Yeahhhhhh! Christmas is here and that means….ICE CREAM! Not just any ol’ ice cream. I am talkin about buche de Noel. Buche de Noel is basically an icecream log. As you can see from the pics it is shaped like a log with bits of chocolate on top. The inside is usually three different flavors [...]

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Finding my French accent

December 6, 2005

The other day my husband asked me, “Did you hear that?” “No, what? I answer, knowing full well what he was talking about. We were all sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch and Boy Blue was fussy. Petite Clown put down her plastic fork and exclaimed, “Boy Blue-uh!” My husband responded, “What? You did [...]

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