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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Quoiat?

April 2, 2008

Sweet Bear looked up at me with her big blue eyes. She had her eyebrows all squished together in concentration trying to figure out what I had just told her. She had been tuning me out up until she heard ice cream. “Quoiat?”, she implored with urgency. Luckily, I have become an expert in Franglais [...]

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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, the kids had [...]

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Sweet Bear sings

March 15, 2008

Sweet Bear loves to sing her favorite song she learned at l’ecole enfantine, Un petit bonhomme. Un petit bonhomm’ s’en allant au bois Quand il revenait il disait chaqu’fois Atchoum! atchoum! atchoum! atchoum! atchoum!

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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. In front [...]

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Snow markers

November 8, 2007

Snow markers have been up all over our village since Monday. I was told that last year there wasn’t much snow here in the Jura. However, the year before the snow level was up to the orange! That’s a lot of snow. We have already bought snow pants and a coat that is wind and [...]

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Parent Meeting at school

November 7, 2007

Last night I sat through my first parents meeting in Switzerland with my five year old daughter’s two wonderful teachers. I am totally impressed with her school. All the parents sat together in a circle as the teachers explained what the children were doing in school. Each parent was given a book with their child’s [...]

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Birthday cake

October 28, 2007

We celebrated Sweet Bear’s birthday Friday night. The fruit toppings made her cake colorful. It was as good as it was beautiful. My kids have been taking turns being sick for a week. I am sick as well. Sleep is not going well and I am exhausted. Last Saturday, we had to take Sweet Bear [...]

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Ultimate brownie recipe (recette)

October 26, 2007

Melting the butter and chocolate on low heat. The apartment smelled like a big slice of chocolate heaven. Sweet Bear was the official mixer of all the ingredients. She had fun drizzling the chocolate over the flour making pictures. The finished product. I will sprinkle powdered sugar over them at the school when I am [...]

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Birthday weekend

October 25, 2007

Sweet Bear is five today! I will be busy baking homemade brownies tonight for her birthday party at school tomorrow. I pray they come out because it is the first time I have ever baked brownies that were not from a box. The weekend will be full of birthday bliss. I will be blogging lightly [...]

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Sweet Bear photography

October 16, 2007

The computer. Papa on the computer. I found this a very interesting shot. She was taking a picture of her new umbrella’s handle but she got so much more. The three musketeers. She took a photo of me on the phone with my mom but I thought it was interesting how it turned out. And, [...]

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Pumpkin Bread Recipe (Recette)

September 28, 2007

Last Friday, I had bought another small baking pumpkin at our village Coop. Since I had already baked a pie with the last one that I had purchased, I decided to make some pumpkin bread with this one. It was a good choice. I used this great and easy recipe. Makes one loaf 1 1/2 [...]

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Saturday outing

September 16, 2007

We took the train to La Chaux-de-fond to buy Sweet Bear and Petite Clown some shoes. Afterwards, we took advantage of our all day tickets. When taking the train it is generally cheaper to buy the all day tickets rather than the round trip tickets. The all day tickets allow us to go anywhere in [...]

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Tutoring English

September 12, 2007

I have officially sat with my neighbor’s daughter twice to teach her English. She is very determined and has already learned how to pronounce the alphabet correctly in English. She has a French accent which is normal. But, she works hard to pronounce the words like I do. She is starting to sound American! For today’s lesson [...]

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