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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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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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Picky picking

April 27, 2007

We were shopping at Auchan for some things. There is a pet-shop located in the shopping center of this particular Auchan. We often stop and watch the fish and bunnies on the way out to the parking lot. The kids adore the animals. Sweet Bear and Petite Clown were laughing and pointing at the rabbits [...]

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Roof of many colors

April 25, 2007

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A beautiful day in Germany

April 15, 2007

We went to Kehl, Germany yesterday. The kids had a blast walking along the river and playing at the park. It was nice because there were as many French as Germans in Kehl. All were enjoying the day together. Kehl park with water fun! Video sent by pumpkinpie The land on the other side of [...]

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Europe has female friendly seats!

April 15, 2007

Every girl out there will understand why I teach my girls to squat and not to sit on the toilet seat. However, in France and Germany I have found some ‘sit friendly’ seats. One toilet had plastic wrapped around the seat. When you flushed the plastic revolved so that new and clean plastic was ready [...]

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Seeing

April 8, 2007

Sweet Bear looked up at me with a triumphant smile. “See Mama! A heart!” Sure enough, there was a heart laying right at our feet. It was actually a pothole. A pothole with a romantic soul.

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Happy Easter weekend!!!

April 7, 2007

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My little rain cloud

April 4, 2007

I was walking down the sidewalk as fast as I could with the huge amount of people scattered everywhere in Strasbourg due to the beautiful weather. Petite Clown had just told me two minutes before that she had to go peepee. She went peepee the day before right smack in the middle of playing at [...]

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It was magic. I tell you! Magic!

March 26, 2007

I walked right past this without seeing it. Remember my dog doodoo radar is tuned for doodoo on the sidewalk laying in wait of my feet. This was clearly out of my radar. But, not that of an over curious four year old. Sweet Bear stopped and exclaimed, “Mais pourquoi le chien a fait caca là? Et, [...]

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Exploring letters

March 12, 2007

Sweet Bear and I sit together at the kitchen table. I ask her to tell me something about apples since this was a word that starts with a. A for apples. Sweet Bear has no problem coming up with a sentence about her favorite fruit. “I love apples!”, she exclaims. So, I draw lines for [...]

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Caught red handed

March 10, 2007

I took my camera out of it’s case. I started previewing and deleting pictures that I had already uploaded to my flickr account. I am stopped by an image that is labeled video. I hadn’t taken a video with the camera for months. I get out of the delete function and press ok to view [...]

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Larger classes

February 23, 2007

We asked how many children were in each of our girls classes. Petite Clown (age 3) – has 27 Sweet Bear (age 4) – has 31 The funny thing is the classes never seem to have that many kids running around in them. Yesterday, I counted heads sitting in a circle around Sweet Bear’s teacher [...]

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Cultural differences in parenting

February 20, 2007

My son has started speaking French! He has said lait (milk), oh la la (very important), and oui (yes). He hasn’t started to say no in English or French like the girls did. No was pretty much one of the very first words that the girls said. It is still one of their favorite words unfortunately. That [...]

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