We needed to work out the cramps in our muscles from yesterdays long walk.
After dinner was finished and the dishes cleaned up, we headed out for a walk. I think it took us longer to convince the kids to go and get their coats on than it did to take the walk.
Once we got [...]
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A walk before bedtime makes for sweet dreams
Job equals money equals power
It looks like we will either have to move near a large city like Geneva for me to find a bank or office job or I will have to work in a factory.
I don’t really care if I work in a factory even if I would prefer a bank or office job.
The important thing for [...]
Snuggly
My son and I snuggle close rubbing our noses together.
It is our game. I used to play it with all three of his sisters until they got to old for it.
He lifts his head back and puts his hands over his eyes and says loudly, “Peak-a-boo!”, as he uncovers his eyes.
Stopping suddenly, he tells [...]
Quoiat?
Sweet Bear looked up at me with her big blue eyes. She had her eyebrows all squished together in concentration trying to figure out what I had just told her. She had been tuning me out up until she heard ice cream.
“Quoiat?”, she implored with urgency.
Luckily, I have become an expert in Franglais [...]
Married with kids
We all have caught a little bug.
A bug that has crawled it’s way around the apartment infecting each one of us (minus Mr. Pie, comme d’habitude).
Thankfully, the bug in question is not the one that did a round at Sweet Bear’s school.
That bug missed my girl.
I was saved from having to spend money on lice [...]
Our first Easter in Switzerland
Sweet Bear made this chick at school out of paper plates. The neck is a red sock with a hole cut out for her thumb. It is adorable!
She, also, made this Easter basket. The kids left the baskets out the day before for the Easter Bunny. The next day of school, [...]
Hippity hoppity Easter’s on its way
Here are some images of our first Easter in Switzerland.
A photo of a kind of a traditional Easter Rabbit cake that is not very sweet but good all the same. I bought the brightly colored eggs from a woman who was selling them to raise money for the handicapped.
We tried to eat the eggs [...]
Sweet Bear sings
Sweet Bear loves to sing her favorite song she learned at l’ecole enfantine, Un petit bonhomme.
Un petit bonhomm’ s’en allant au bois
Quand il revenait il disait chaqu’fois
Atchoum! atchoum! atchoum! atchoum! atchoum!
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I am not going mad.
It is 1:30 p.m. in the French speaking part of Switzerland.
My children are watching Cartoon Network France.
Tom and Jerry to be exact.
In English.
Just like my brother and I did as little kids.
It must be some sort of conspiracy to teach little French speaking kids English.
********I love hearing the cartoon characters from [...]
Duck feet
Holding my umbrella firmly in my hands, I used it as a shield to break the wind and rain as I pressed my way home.
A burst of wind whiped under the umbrella forcefully lifting it up out of my hands. The umbrella was sent soaring down the street with me chasing after it.
What a [...]
