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Living in a Swiss village with kids

May 9, 2008

My kids love their life in our Swiss village. I don’t worry about them being outside by themselves. An hour will pass without my seeing them from the apartment windows but I know they are safe. It is liberating. When I was a kid it was the same. My brother and I played outdoors for [...]

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A post about a day out of my life that turns into a rant

May 6, 2008

We had a big sun yesterday. Yesterday was my laundry day. I hung clothes outside for the first time this year. Even the jeans were dry in a little over an hour. All of this meant that I finished all my laundry before five pm. Everything was folded and put away since I gave up [...]

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A walk before bedtime makes for sweet dreams

April 13, 2008

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 [...]

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Snuggly

April 11, 2008

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, [...]

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Watch out for those worms!

April 10, 2008

The kids had a blast walking to and from the bus stop today. The entertainment? Worms. Worm after worm dotted the walk because of the rain. In the photo above, Petite Clown almost squished one. She looked up at me with a big smile and said, “Boy, that was a close one!”, in perfect English. [...]

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Our first Easter in Switzerland

March 24, 2008

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, the kids had [...]

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Learning to knit online

October 25, 2007

I have always wanted to learn to knit. It seemed too hard and I always put it off saying I’ll get to it later. Well, later is here. I have since torn out all of this work because it wasn’t like I wanted it. It is all about practice, practice, practice. This was my third [...]

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Sweet Bear photography

October 16, 2007

The computer. Papa on the computer. I found this a very interesting shot. She was taking a picture of her new umbrella’s handle but she got so much more. The three musketeers. She took a photo of me on the phone with my mom but I thought it was interesting how it turned out. And, [...]

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Photohunt: smelly

October 12, 2007

Time to take the smelly trash out. I had a photo of my son but have removed it. It was of his smelly bottom. His bottom was clothed but I am no longer comfortable putting my children up on my blog. Thank you for understanding. That’s OK…I am ready to scrub his bottom! Just kidding…pass [...]

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Pumpkin Bread Recipe (Recette)

September 28, 2007

Last Friday, I had bought another small baking pumpkin at our village Coop. Since I had already baked a pie with the last one that I had purchased, I decided to make some pumpkin bread with this one. It was a good choice. I used this great and easy recipe. Makes one loaf 1 1/2 [...]

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Mother and son

September 20, 2007

Boy Blue often caresses my face and gives me kisses. He loves his Mama. If my husband even thinks about hugging me or kissing me Boy Blue runs as fast as he can to climb into my lap screaming, “Noooooo!”, the entire time. He is sitting in my lap as I type this as is [...]

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Saturday outing

September 16, 2007

We took the train to La Chaux-de-fond to buy Sweet Bear and Petite Clown some shoes. Afterwards, we took advantage of our all day tickets. When taking the train it is generally cheaper to buy the all day tickets rather than the round trip tickets. The all day tickets allow us to go anywhere in [...]

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Feeling Froggy

September 7, 2007

Boy Blue was sporty his Frog Wear the other day because it was that cold outside.

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Language learning with bilingual children

August 30, 2007

I was thinking the other day about how our children are completely bilingual. I am not including Angel in this post because she isn’t near to being bilingual. She knows some French words but hasn’t had enough time in a French speaking environment to become fluent. The girls are able to effortlessly switch between French [...]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2007

I don’t know if I will be able to stay awake long enough to watch the big apple (or whatever is used now) drop in New York on t.v. tonight bringing in the New Year. We took Angel back to her father today. We left at 8 AM this morning and only got back a [...]

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