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August 2006

If it costs more it must be better?!?

August 31, 2006

The other night I was talking with my mother’s neighbor who is a woman about the same age as me and she has four children like I do. We were talking about how each birth was different and about the care that we received at the hospitals where we delivered. I had to hold my [...]

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French twist with powdered sugar on top

August 30, 2006

Being married to a Frenchman is a wonderful and beautiful thing. Well, except for the fact that Frenchmen are in many ways just like all the other men in the world. I think it is best if I don’t get into the whole I man, you woman thing for now though. However, I would like [...]

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Cleaning up the blog and a stinky kid or two

August 30, 2006

I will be cleaning up the blog over the next weeks. I have no clue what to name it. I can’t really leave the name as “From my French Window” when I don’t live in France any longer. I guess I could argue that our family is Franco-American and that is where the French comes [...]

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High Chair

August 29, 2006

Tonight is the first night we have gotten the two middle girls to sleep this early. It is 9:30 at night and I am enjoying the quiet. Petite Clown just stopped crying at the top of her lungs in protest at being put in bed against her will. I don’t know how Sweet Bear does [...]

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Walking is good for the soul

August 26, 2006

We took a long walk yesterday. It made me happy. I had missed American nature which is free and unkept by man. We walked along Miami river where a bike trail is being built. There are bike trails all over this part of Ohio not unlike Strasbourg. We are just missing the bikes. No matter…We [...]

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Homesick, again

August 26, 2006

I am homesick for France.  I knew it would happen.  I just miss France.  Just because I talk about things I don’t like in France doesn’t mean that I stopped loving her just as much as I always did.  I talked often on this blog about things that I didn’t agree with in the States…however, [...]

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Getting back into the swing of blogging

August 20, 2006

I have been searching for a reason to keep blogging since I am no longer an expat.  I have been busy organizing and baby proofing in my mother’s house while at the same time catching up with my family that I haven’t been able to blog much.  I have decided that blogging is helpful to [...]

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Basic rights not found in French workplace

August 20, 2006

I have had some time to think about all the crazyness that has become normal to me over the past few months.  I think that the move back to the States was the right move.  I just could not live in a country that supports discrimination for any reason.  I am a woman with four [...]

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Just blabbering…

August 17, 2006

I have finally adjusted to not trying to answer everyone in French. It took me four days to start thinking in mostly English without French sneaky in every other thought. Vilay and I will begin speaking in French together so that the girls will hear French. Their father will speak with the children in French [...]

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deleted

August 17, 2006

I have deleted my last post because it was a little too “detailed”.  I really want to forget all the bad things and move on with the good. My mother has been spoiling her grandchildren.  The kids don’t really seem to understand that they are now living in another country.  They are just happy with [...]

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Cultural adjustment

August 14, 2006

We have arrived in America a little before we expected due to some issues with my inlaws.  We are in a state of jet lag which makes it a bit hard to think for the moment.  I will update more in the next few days.  I am happier to be in the States than I [...]

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