Franglais

I have started a blog for Sweet Bear. She has been calling my blog her site. When I asked her if she wanted her very own blog she smiled big, big, big (as she would say) and said, “YES”! She wrote her very first post with the help of Mama. You can read it on [...]

We were in Strasbourg last week and on these streets near the U.S. Consulate, the workers were cutting the limbs on the trees. I still think the trees look strange cut so that they form balls on the ends of the branches. Last year, Sweet Bear would say over and over, “Poor baby tees…tey hurt.” [...]

I just wanted to see Sweet Bears reaction to my speaking in French with no English whatsoever. All other times I speak to her only in English or say one or two words in French. Never more than one sentence in French. Even then I follow with the same sentence said again in English. Lately, [...]

The other day my husband asked me, “Did you hear that?” “No, what? I answer, knowing full well what he was talking about. We were all sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch and Boy Blue was fussy. Petite Clown put down her plastic fork and exclaimed, “Boy Blue-uh!” My husband responded, “What? You did [...]