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I found out an interesting thing the other day in regard to turkeys.  We all know how turkey is a must have dish on any Thanksgiving table, right?  
Well. 
I was talking with someone in a grocery about how fresh is a fresh turkey.  I asked him how long after the turkey is killed does it take to reach the grocery.  [...]

I worked at the mall for six hours today until five.  Then, we rushed home to eat and get the kids ready for trick or treating which began at six.  I had to dress them and put make-up on their faces.  I sprayed Petite Clown’s hair straight up.  She looked adorable as a little red [...]

We mailed out all the paperwork for Vilay’s greencard and work authorization. It should arrive at the lockbox of the immigration service department sometime within the next few days. It is such a relief to have it out of our hands. We can only wait now.
The second announcement is I have a [...]

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I have been busy filling out forms and copying documents for Vilay to get the greencard. I will say that while in France it is not always easy to get the 10 year card…it doesn’t require quite so many forms or dollars. It is going to cost us a little under one thousand [...]

Coretta Scott King sums up why I enjoyed getting my teacher certification at Antioch University’s McGregor School. It is, also, one of the reasons that I like Yellow Springs. People in Yellow Springs aren’t afraid to question or think outside of the box. The people that live in Yellow Springs are open [...]

We. officially. have. a. car. It has made our life so much easier and I am now able to actively job hunt.
This past weekend we flew into Daytona Beach to pick up the car from my uncle’s house and drive it back to Ohio. Unfortunately, we got lost on the way back. [...]

The day after arriving back in America after over 2 years, Sweet Bear started “baby talking” while speaking French. It got worse and worse as the week went on. She even started talking to her father in English. He would just say what she had said again but in French. He [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]