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Four years just flew by…

October 25, 2006

We bought Sweet Bear a birthday cake for her birthday. It is chocolate icing on yellow cake. She picked it because it had ballons painted on top of the cake on each side. In the middle we had “Happy Birthday Sweet Bear” written. She was very excited to get to pick out her own birthday cake. It [...]

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What I have learned is…

October 22, 2006

that I don’t understand people. I just don’t. Sometimes, I wonder if it isn’t me that is the problem. Maybe…just maybe…I am a spoiled brat. I haven’t really lived the life of a spoiled brat in many respects. I have had a hard life even if I think it has been very beautiful at times. [...]

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Hanging around

October 20, 2006

I am still here. I am working and trying to get my certification for teaching in Florida lined up. I have found my best friend from high school that was, also, my room mate in college. We are trying to find a time to get together and I am very excited about that. It has [...]

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moving along

October 10, 2006

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 job! Actually, [...]

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Out of the mouths of babes

October 1, 2006

Vilay was finishing up painting my mother’s laundry room. Sweet Bear and Petite Clown were wrestling and giggling as they watched their father from the doorway of the kitchen which leads into the laundry room. Vilay and I were talking about how the painting was going. Actually, I was asking him if he had managed [...]

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Immigration headaches

September 27, 2006

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 dollars to [...]

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Small town…big minds

September 21, 2006

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 to the world [...]

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Here kitty, kitty

September 20, 2006

We visited Yellow Springs today. Yellow Springs is one of our favorite cities around here to hang out. While walking around the town we encountered many cats in the streets and in the shops. After Sweet Bear had carried a very gentle black cat all around a used bookshop for at least half an hour, [...]

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Sweet Bears says, “Convenience stores are so yesterday…I want my goods delivered to my door!!!”

September 6, 2006

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 has continued to speak [...]

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New template

September 5, 2006

I have found a template that I think is cleaner and easier to read. Please, let me know if anyone has any problems with it. I have checked it under Firefox and IE. The beautiful picture of the bridge is not mine. Therefore, I will be searching for a new header over the next few [...]

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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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