• 2 days left and less than $100 to go!

    All – there are only TWO DAYS left in Matea’s charity:water birthday fundraiser. http://mycharitywater.org/matea She decided to give up her birthday presents / money so that others can have clean drinking water. thank…

  • Sprung

    It has been a really nice last week or so here. Tonight when we were driving home from church it was still 19 degrees at 8:00pm.  The daffodils are probably getting close to being done,…

  • Friday Lunch

    Friday we had to go downtown to get passport pictures for Alma.  We had learned from the 5 attempts, 49 hours and 16 stores that we tried for her citizenship card that it…

  • misc. March

    Nothing of particular note has happened in the last few weeks – but I thought I’d get a few pictures up of what we’ve been up to. 1. Lego. always lego. lots and…

  • shopping

    Here are just some pictures that I have taken recently of things that I’ve found interesting when we’re out shopping. “petit’ you say.  Really? 800g of cheese is petit?  Then what, might I…

  • 8!

    Matea turned 8 last weekend. Hard to believe She had two friends over for her party – which was a good french lesson for me as I get little girls correcting my grammer on more…

  • Totally Fake.

    Yesterday Alma seemed to have taught herself how to fake cough. She basically hasn’t stopped since. This was her early this morning…

  • les vacances de fevrier

    Well we just had our February vacation time again.  Last year Matea was picking daffodils by now- but we had snow that sat on the ground for probably two weeks this year – so everything…