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L’ amour vrai

Radar of the most important kind

September 29, 2006

We took the kids to a park the other day. It is a park that Vilay has always liked and I have never really found so wonderful. I’ll get to why in a bit. We let the kids run and jump and play on the play equipment for about an hour. Afterwards, we took a [...]

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Immigration headaches

September 27, 2006

I have been busy filling out forms and copying documents for Vilay to get the greencard. I will say that while in France it is not always easy to get the 10 year card…it doesn’t require quite so many forms or dollars. It is going to cost us a little under one thousand dollars to [...]

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French twist with powdered sugar on top

August 30, 2006

Being married to a Frenchman is a wonderful and beautiful thing. Well, except for the fact that Frenchmen are in many ways just like all the other men in the world. I think it is best if I don’t get into the whole I man, you woman thing for now though. However, I would like [...]

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Walking is good for the soul

August 26, 2006

We took a long walk yesterday. It made me happy. I had missed American nature which is free and unkept by man. We walked along Miami river where a bike trail is being built. There are bike trails all over this part of Ohio not unlike Strasbourg. We are just missing the bikes. No matter…We [...]

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One step back…two steps forward

June 25, 2006

As of tomorrow, my family will be moving in with my inlaws. It has been two years since we moved out of their house six months after our arrival in France. We really don’t have another option at this point with four children to feed. My inlaws are wonderful and the village that they live [...]

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Each day I fall in love all over again

June 19, 2006

As we were walking yesterday, just as we do almost daily now that the weather is warm, I didn’t think much about the houses, cars or the fact that I heard nothing but French being spoken around me. I passed French bakeries with only a small amount of drooling, now have dog doo radar installed [...]

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Happy Fathers Day

June 18, 2006

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Fathers are the quiet strength that we fall back on when times are tough. ******** Papa with all his kids in Strasbourg. Papa is always fun because he will run all around the playground chasing us fast, fast…FAST! Afterwards, Papa bounced with all his girls on [...]

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Logically organized…says who?

June 13, 2006

A couple days ago, while walking to the center of the city, we stopped to drink from the water bottles that we had brought along. It was over 80 degrees out and we were melting. The sun was relentless and shade was a short pleasure from one big tree to the next. We were like [...]

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Flip flopped

May 30, 2006

My husband is very strict about what the girls can wear. He will not let them wear shirts that show the belly or flip flops. He says the shirts are too sexy for little girls and that flip flops are houseshoes or pool shoes. So, Angel Girl called me to ask if she could pack [...]

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Dirty talk, and for once it’s not diapers!

May 27, 2006

Boy Blue was standing with the support of the couch and laughing while blowing huge, loud spit bubbles. My husband and I were laying on the couch together watching him with pride. Vilay (smiling) – “Boy Blue….Arrête de crâcher (stop spitting) !” Me (rolling my eyes) – “He’s a baby and that’s what babies do.” [...]

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Pressure

May 12, 2006

Yesterday, my husband wasn’t feeling well. He went to the doctor thinking it was a virus or something that was making him dizzy and tired. Well, the doctor found out my husband has high blood pressure. It was so high that he is making him stay home from work until Wednesday. He said such high [...]

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Long distance love

May 8, 2006

I was touched deeply yesterday when my husband’s father who recently made a trip to Laos to see his family there gave each of us a gift from his trip. The gifts weren’t really what touched me but the giving itself. He is a very loving and thoughtful man. Sometimes, he drives me crazy but [...]

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Put your listening ears on!

April 28, 2006

While working in Kindergarten, first as a student teacher and later as a sub, I heard many a teacher telling small upturned faces to put on their listening ears. I thought it was cute and somehow it worked. It was a way to catch their attention and make them think about the fact that they [...]

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Religion is a private matter

March 13, 2006

My husband has on his blog a little button that says Blog sans dieu (blog without God). One of the reasons I hesitated in putting a link to his blog claiming his Godless behind as my husband (meant to be funny) is that people reading my blog would read his blog and think that I [...]

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Who is Pumpkin Pie?

February 24, 2006

I was born in Florida but I haven’t been back since we left when I was a newborn. I have lived in Arizonia, South Carolina, Ohio, and Kentucky. I went to four different high schools in three different states. We finally settled near a small Ohio town and I finished high school in a school [...]

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