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November 2007

Winter Wonderland

November 9, 2007

Rubbing the sleep from my eyes I stretched to see what the kids were so excited about. Their shrills of happiness pushed me right out of sleep and into the day. Looking up I saw snow not falling but blowing from the sky. It was coming down hard and reminded me of a rain storm. [...]

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Snow markers

November 8, 2007

Snow markers have been up all over our village since Monday. I was told that last year there wasn’t much snow here in the Jura. However, the year before the snow level was up to the orange! That’s a lot of snow. We have already bought snow pants and a coat that is wind and [...]

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Perils of the French R

November 8, 2007

I was explaining to a woman that has a child in Sweet Bear’s school which I had promised to give the Ultimate Brownie recipe to that I hadn’t forgotten to do it. It was taking me a couple days because I had to translate it from English into French. I didn’t mention all the other [...]

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Parent Meeting at school

November 7, 2007

Last night I sat through my first parents meeting in Switzerland with my five year old daughter’s two wonderful teachers. I am totally impressed with her school. All the parents sat together in a circle as the teachers explained what the children were doing in school. Each parent was given a book with their child’s [...]

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Snow and mist

November 6, 2007

I woke up and went to the bedroom window to open the shutters. I stood for a moment watching a women walking her dog in the rain. A half hour later my mother called me as I was sitting down at the kitchen table with my coffee. Talking with her I glanced out the window [...]

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Language learning with Mama

November 5, 2007

Back in August I made a post about my bilingual children and language learning. I wanted to make the follow up post sooner but kept putting it off due to lack of time due to laziness. Now, I am making myself sit down and do it. While in college, during one of my social psychology [...]

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Seven random things meme

November 4, 2007

Might I add…? tagged me to do the Seven Random Things Meme. You can read here Seven Random Things Meme by clicking here. I am not sure I can think of seven things about myself that I haven’t written about before. I’ll give it a shot. I don’t know much about my heritage and would [...]

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Berne (Bern), Switzerland photos

November 3, 2007

We took the train to Bern on Thursday. We felt the need to get out of the village. Since it was a holiday in the Jura, Vilay didn’t work. The weather was warmer than it had been all week which didn’t help our restless mood. The tram in Bern. The Swiss Alps are all the [...]

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Cat woman

November 2, 2007

Since about three days ago I have had this overwhelming need to go out and snatch myself a cat. We had a cat who was this huge tan and grey tiger. She has been living with my brother since Sweet Bear was born. After the birth of Sweet Bear, our cat began peeing on the [...]

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