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Mother’s Day

May 12, 2008

My five year old daughter gave me these beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day. The petals are made of wire and the centers are pompoms. At school she crafted these flowers all by herself with her own little hands. I love the springy hearts on the vase. After she gave me the flowers and a big [...]

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Language learning with Mama

November 5, 2007

Back in August I made a post about my bilingual children and language learning. I wanted to make the follow up post sooner but kept putting it off due to lack of time due to laziness. Now, I am making myself sit down and do it. While in college, during one of my social psychology [...]

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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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Language learning with bilingual children

August 30, 2007

I was thinking the other day about how our children are completely bilingual. I am not including Angel in this post because she isn’t near to being bilingual. She knows some French words but hasn’t had enough time in a French speaking environment to become fluent. The girls are able to effortlessly switch between French [...]

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Steaming

August 27, 2007

As I sit here typing my body is still steaming from spending the day chasing kids and laundry. One day of laundry a week is great on all the days I do not have to do it. Today, I was not feeling it. Luckily, it was hot and my one dozen loads dried quickly. I [...]

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