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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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Beach front view

August 15, 2007

Daytona Beach, Florida (taken summer 2006) I have a beach front view on my life. The past year has been incredibly hard. I made it. Yet, I sit here wondering where my life will take me next. My life has always been like that. I never knew where I would be from one year to [...]

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Blogging headaches

August 15, 2007

I was tired last night when I decided to delete and reinstall my WordPress blog. I didn’t think it would be an issue. I wrote that I had not updated my blog entries just before I deleted my blog. However, I did backup the files just before I deleted the blog (see how tired I was). [...]

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Deleted WordPress and reinstalled

August 14, 2007

WordPress was running slow. So, I read somewhere to delete and reinstall. I have done it on my other WordPress blog with no problems. Not this time. When I tried to reinstall WordPress I got errors. Lucky for me I had a backup using the wordpress backup plugin. Not so lucky…I forgot to backup before [...]

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Monday equals laundry

July 23, 2007

Heaps and heaps of it. To be exact a weeks worth of laundry with three accident prone (I admit it is from my genes) kids. I am looking at eight loads of fun. In Switzerland, apartment dwellers must abide by a laundry schedule. Each tenent in my building has half a day one day a [...]

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Mountain stroll

July 21, 2007

We started our walk a little later in the day than usual. It turned out to be in our luck because of the mist. I felt a few drops on my face and hand here and there. The drops never amounted to more. It was magic walking in the mist. Here are some of the [...]

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Life in Switzerland (part one)

July 21, 2007

View of France from Switzerland. Photo taken the day we walked from our village in Switzerland to France. We live in the Jura which is rural. Our village has just a little over 1000 people living in it. However, we have a train station, bus, Coop, post office, bank, bakery, butcher (2, I think), 2 [...]

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Random rambling

July 20, 2007

I have fixed the issue with the blogs. Fantastico was throwing extra code into the WordPress configuration file. I found the answer on the WordPress forum. Once Bluehost got back with me telling me where to go to fix it I was all set. It took about five minutes tops. I really do love WordPress [...]

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Angel Girl

July 19, 2007

She is not a baby any longer. She is a beautiful young lady. It amazes me that my daughter is getting almost as tall as I am. In a couple years, I will have to look up instead of down to see her sweet face. I am proud and sad all at the same time [...]

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Alone

July 19, 2007

And, lovin’ it!!! Vilay stands in the hall of our apartment building arranging the box holding our new Swisscom phone under his arm. For about three days this phone has not allowed us to answer calls or call out. I have listened to my parents leave messages on our answering machine as I frantically swear [...]

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Updating issues

July 19, 2007

I have updated all our blogs to the latest version of WordPress. I have never had a problem before now. The old posts on Vilay’s blog are all messed up due to the French accents in words. My old posts on my blogs have weid A’s stuck in all the sentences. I will try to [...]

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It’s my birthday and I can blog if I want to

July 18, 2007

Finally! It took FOREVER to get online because of Vilay and I deciding to use a cable line instead of a phone line. Big, BIG mistake! The cable in our apartment was too old and would have needed to be replaced. So, we had to wait to see if our landlord would allow the work [...]

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Moving

May 25, 2007

Tomorrow. We are heading for the border bright and early Saturday with a truck full of our personal possessions. You will not be surprised if you have been reading this blog that most of said possessions are actually kid related. Vilay is a nervous wreck about all the paperwork needed for the French and Swiss [...]

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Moving chores

May 24, 2007

We have been running around like crazy trying to get everything in order. Lucky for us, Vilay’s company handles all the paperwork for the permits. After we move I will write a nice post about how we researched all the financial angles of living in Switzerland. Basically, we didn’t have a choice but to live [...]

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Switzerland – here we come!

May 23, 2007

We are moving to the canton of Jura in Switzerland this weekend. I didn’t want to say to much about what was going on because I wasn’t sure how it would all work out. I didn’t want to talk about something that may not have even happened. Now, I can talk about it because it [...]

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