Posts Tagged ‘Sweet Bear’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]