For Jonah’s birthday I took him skiing – for his first time. It’s something that he’s wanted to do for years – but I could never justify back home. Either skiing on such a small local hill, or making the trek to the mountains just to learn.  Here we drove a little further up the mountain that…

Christmas was quite different for us this year. Instead of gathering like we normally do with dozens of family and friends on the 24th, 25th, and often the 26th (which usually spills over into the 27, then Jonah’s birthday on the 28, which is followed by 2 days off, then New years eve…) – we…

I’m not sure what’s a bigger Christmas miracle: the fact that we woke up the morning of Dec 24th to a beautiful snowfall (started in the night – forecasting up to 30cm at higher elevations) or the fact that the snow tires that I started trying to get over a month ago  – arrived the…

Today is the first ‘school day’ that the kids aren’t going to school – so it feels like the first real day of les vacances de Noël. We got snow again last week – so the kids had a snow-covered school yard complete with snowmen and forts for the last week of school.  The nice thing…

Last week we got ourselves a tree.   Since we live up in the French alpes – surrounded by forests on virtually every side – we got our tree in the manner that you would expect – we drove to IKEA and bought it.   (seriously – they were €20  – and if you  bring it back to…

As of Monday – our snow started leaving us…fast. It’s been 10 – 16 above for the last few days – and with the rain, it almost seems as if it left as fast as it came The only snow that’s left is along the road where there just a few days ago was waist…

Last Saturday was our first taste of Alpine winter. The kids spent all morning sledding down the hill in our yard. There was tonnes of snow  and it was beautiful and warm out.  Saturday was also the Marché de Noel in our village. We walked down the hill (as we had to abandon our car…

Last Saturday was our first taste of Alpine winter. The kids spent all morning sledding down the hill in our yard. There was tonnes of snow and it was beautiful and warm out. Saturday was also the Marché de Noel in our village. We walked down the hill (as we had to abandon our car…

Overnight last thursday we got our first snow. 10cm (about 2.5 acres for you Americans) when we woke up.  It wasn’t that cold (at least for us) so the kids were out a LOT. When Nathan got here we were almost snowed in.  We went for a walk up towards ‘Le Pony Club’ and watched some…