Who is Pumpkin Pie?
Hi, my name is Pumpkin Pie. Well, not really. I use Pumpkin Pie as an alias. I came up with the name after I read some of my first entries where I talk about missing pumpkin pie and being homesick.
You see…When I started this weblog I was living in France. I was missing my family back home and all those American homecooked dishes. What I missed most wasn’t apple pie. It was and is pumpkin pie.
So, voila! Je m’appelle Pumpkin Pie. But, please, just call me Pumpkin.
A little background:
I was born in Florida but my parents moved back to Ohio soon after. I have lived in Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, Arizonia, South Carolina, Strasbourg (France) and Switzerland.
My French husband and I have lived together in both our native countries (the United States and France). We moved to Switzerland in June of 2007 with the intention of returning to France within a few years. That has since changed. We really enjoy our life in Switzerland and discovering Switzerland as expats together. We are staying.
I have four children, three girls and one boy. Angel (age 12) is my oldest and lives in the U.S. with her American father and his family. She comes to see us on Christmas and summer breaks. She understands and speaks very little French but when she is with us she picks it up much faster than I did. My husband and I have three other children which are bilingual (French and English) and bicultural (French and American), Sweet Bear (age 5), Petite Clown (age 4) and Boy Blue (age 2).
I have a Flickr account that I add photos to almost daily.
If you would like to contact me click here to go to my contact page.
My personal view on life is:
Life is like being in a canoe. Sometimes you just drift in the world and sometimes you have to use the paddle to fight the current. And sometimes….the canoe does turn over and you have to get back in and dry off or just sit there wet and soggy. No matter what you never stop moving. That is what I love about life.
Now, click your heals together while you say there is no place like home three times and then CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE FRONT PAGE. .
