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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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.…