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L’ amour vrai

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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Love bug

March 18, 2007

Vilay and I will be married for six years this coming May. We have been together for almost nine years. I sometimes wonder why I married him. I was crazy. Crazy in love. Even today all he has to do is kiss me hard and I forget that I was ever mad at him. I [...]

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Ride with us

March 16, 2007

Vilay got upset with me when I was teasing him about priority to the right as a car ran a stop sign in the video below. It was not a priority to the right and it was the fault of the driver in the other car. Boy. Am I happy I am not a man. [...]

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Speak with caution

March 13, 2007

Be careful when speaking a new language Video sent by pumpkinpie

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J’adore

March 5, 2007

quand… My husband sings in the car…in French. It’s too sexy!

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Why do I want to be French?

February 27, 2007

The Consulat Général deWashington asked me, “Pourquoi, voulez-vous etrê Française?” It was a little over four years ago. We had driven all the way from Ohio for this interview. I didn’t get the French citizenship because my French wasn’t good. I, also, didn’t answer this question well. I told her I wanted to be French because [...]

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Images of our life

February 11, 2007

I love taking pictures. I regret that after we moved out of my mother’s house that I couldn’t take more pictures of our life in America. The cable for uploading picures from our digital camera was left in France. We were using my mother’s camera until we moved in with my father which was only [...]

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Pictures say it best

February 9, 2007

Vilay and I at the Cincy airport. If you look behind Vilay you will see how Petite Clown got her name. Boy Blue having fun with his Papa. Oh, how I missed Strasbourg. I even missed the rain in Alsace. First day of school for the girls. Ready for class. Our village was blanketed in [...]

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I l.o.v.e. my French

January 22, 2007

My mother had told me about a three bedroom apartment that is available near her home. She had seen a sign advertising it on her way to work. Vilay and I went to the complex to inquire about the three bedroom apartment. My mother knew that it is an income based apartment. If it wasn’t [...]

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Deflated

January 18, 2007

I talked to Catholic Community Services today. I was told that my father would be totally responsible for Vilay even if he were in an accident. I was, also, told that I could be declined as a sole sponsor due to my having not worked in the last three years even if I found a [...]

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Days

January 12, 2007

I am learning a new job in another department at work. I love it! It is fast paced and I never watch the clock. The people in the department are all friendly and work as a team. It makes all the difference in the world. I look forward to the day. Where is it that [...]

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Letter to Congressman

January 7, 2007

Congressman Turner, I am an American by birth with three American children born to myself and my French husband. We moved back to the U.S. after my husband lost his job in France. We had no where to go. I have applied for my husband’s green card and work authorization. I do not make enough [...]

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Pant trouble

December 30, 2006

Vilay: “My pants are upside down.” Me: thinking…What in the world is he talking about? Me: watching…my husband take his pants off and turn them inside out. Me: “Sweety, it’s not upside down…it’s inside out.” I couldn’t stop smiling for at least five minutes thinking of him wearing upside down pants.

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Sizing up my Frenchman

November 11, 2006

Vilay likes to tease that he will play the “little French” that doesn’t know better if someone gives him any problems. He was laughingly telling me this once again as he made an illegal turn. I told him it wouldn’t be so funny if a cop saw him and he had to pay a not [...]

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Sweet American pie

November 7, 2006

Vilay: “Ahhhhh….It’s too American. It’s too sweet for me!” Me: “O.k. Sooooooo, I’m thinking that since I’m American, that means I’m too sweet for you, too.” *My French husband thinks all American desserts are too sweet. Hmm, the funny thing is that he loves American chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Go figure!

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