• 9 Years Old. 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…

  • 9 Years Old.

    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…

  • Noël 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…

  • Noël

    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…

  • It’s a Christmas Miracle! 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…

  • It’s a Christmas Miracle!

    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…

  • Les vacances ont commencé 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…

  • Les vacances ont commencé

    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…

  • The Tree is UP. 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…

  • The Tree is UP.

    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…

  • It’s beginning to look a lot LESS like Christmas As of Monday – our snow started leaving us…fast. It’s been 10 – 16 above for the last few days – and with the…

  • 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.…

  • Alpine Winter

    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.…

  • SNOW! 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…

  • SNOW!

    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.…