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Living in a Swiss village with kids

May 9, 2008

My kids love their life in our Swiss village.
I don’t worry about them being outside by themselves. An hour will pass without my seeing them from the apartment windows but I know they are safe.
It is liberating.
When I was a kid it was the same. My brother and I played outdoors for hours [...]

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A walk before bedtime makes for sweet dreams

April 13, 2008

We needed to work out the cramps in our muscles from yesterdays long walk.
After dinner was finished and the dishes cleaned up, we headed out for a walk. I think it took us longer to convince the kids to go and get their coats on than it did to take the walk.
Once we got [...]

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Watch out for those worms!

April 10, 2008

The kids had a blast walking to and from the bus stop today.
The entertainment?
Worms.
Worm after worm dotted the walk because of the rain.
In the photo above, Petite Clown almost squished one. She looked up at me with a big smile and said, “Boy, that was a close one!”, in perfect English.
Every two feet we [...]

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Our first Easter in Switzerland

March 24, 2008

Sweet Bear made this chick at school out of paper plates. The neck is a red sock with a hole cut out for her thumb. It is adorable!

She, also, made this Easter basket. The kids left the baskets out the day before for the Easter Bunny. The next day of school, [...]

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A path

March 7, 2008

As I stood watching the children play in the snow, I felt at peace. The village clock sitting on the church tower showed a quarter past eight. We had fifteen more minutes left of snow play before we had to make the rest of the way down the hill to the train station. [...]

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