Posts tagged as:

children

Letting go

June 9, 2010

I let my daughter take my expensive camera and go. Me showing her how to take a picture. Her taking a picture. Emmie Cat was her first subject. No surprise there. What a beautiful shot of a cat that is not easy to take pictures of! The trees behind our apartment. Emmie pretending not to [...]

Read the full article →

Children are happiness

April 15, 2010

My children are my greatest source of happiness. They make me smile all the time. Been very busy searching for a new apartment in Bienne and a job any where in that area. I am so happy to be moving forward instead of standing still. I hope you are all having a great week so [...]

Read the full article →

The rest of that walk we took and the one through life that goes to quickly

March 14, 2010

It is already Sunday! Where did the days from last week scamper off too? I recently realized the girls only have about four more months left of school this year. After summer, M will go on to second grade, C will start first grade and go to the “big school” with her sister and E [...]

Read the full article →

What we did over Christmas break without a computer

January 24, 2010

I am still trying to catch up from the time we spent offline for a whole week and a half at Christmas. I have gotten to all the emails that were important but still need to delete the rest. I have processed all the photos that were sitting on the digital cameras waiting to be [...]

Read the full article →

Schwarzer Peter (Old Maid card game)

November 22, 2009

I love the box for our Old Maid cards. Notice how the man’s arms get longer as you slide the box open. When I was a kid we played Old Maid with a regular deck of 52 cards. No matter what type of cards you play with, it is a fun game to pass the [...]

Read the full article →

Meet Les Hérissons

June 4, 2009

My two youngest girls brought home these adorable hedgehogs from their school. We have decided to allow Les Hérissons (The Hedgehogs) to stay since they don’t eat much or require much cleaning up after. I have no idea what herb or plant the hedgehogs are made from. The girls told me that their teacher said [...]

Read the full article →

Baitchai des enfants

February 25, 2009

The Baitchai for the children was a success. The kids were too cute walking around the village banging on pots, drums and tooting on horns as they stopped at one house after another to collect offerings of candy or money. Afterwards, the kids got to eat hot dogs and french fries at one of the [...]

Read the full article →

Three children in a row

February 7, 2009

My kids love to look at books. When they have a book in their hands they are quiet. So quiet that Emmie Cat must venture out from her hiding place to see what is going on. The children are so engrossed in their books they don’t even notice Emmie Cat sitting at their feet looking [...]

Read the full article →

Moments from today

December 12, 2008

I am baking Snickerdoodles for a Christmas party at my two youngest daughters school. These cookies are simple but good. I would have preferred to make Christmas sugar cookies but I don’t have cookie cutters. I always forget to buy them until I need them. “I’m not up to anything! I don’t know [...]

Read the full article →

Snow mound

December 11, 2008

Here is a photo of the snow mound all the kids play on while they wait for the bus to take them to school. The road that is shown right next to the snow mound is a busy one. I was wondering if the workers were going start breaking up the snow mounds [...]

Read the full article →

La Petite souris

December 11, 2008

My six year old lost a tooth the other night. It is her fourth that she has lost so far. And, she still has two more wiggly teeth that haven’t came out yet! She let me pull her super lose tooth out right before she went to bed. It practically fell out. She quickly decorated [...]

Read the full article →

Oxford First French Words book – Giveaway

November 21, 2008

Oxford First French Words (author Neil Morris) is a beautifully illustrated word book full of wonderful bird’s eye views taken from a typical day out of a child’s life. It is available in German and Spanish as well. Book description taken from the website of Oxford University Press (US): The Oxford First Words books give [...]

Read the full article →

Hard decisions

May 29, 2008

When we went to Fribourg a little while back, I had mentioned that there was an opportunity there. I traveled there for an interview for a position with a company. It was for good money and it would have been nice on my resume for Switzerland not to mention a great learning experience in an [...]

Read the full article →

Number of overweight children in Switerland decreasing

May 16, 2008

Why the number of overweight children in Switerland has greatly decreased in the past five years.

Read the full article →

Mother’s Day

May 12, 2008

My five year old daughter gave me these beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day. The petals are made of wire and the centers are pompoms. At school she crafted these flowers all by herself with her own little hands. I love the springy hearts on the vase. After she gave me the flowers and a big [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries