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 you SO MUCH to those who have already given. If you can give $5, $10 – or whatever – she will meet…

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, and the magnolia tree in the yard is in full bloom (it isn’t quite as nice as last year as it was…

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 was not as straight forward as one would assume – but we now knew the one store downtown that could do infant…

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 lots of lego. 2. Daffodils.  The neighbors yard is basically a flower field – and Matea has been harvesting almost daily. She has taken bouquets to I think every…

Hi all – thanks for your support so far.  As you may have read here, Matea wanted to raise money for clean water instead of getting birthday presents this year Charity:water is a foundation that gives 100% of all donated money directly to water projects. They have a foundation that raises money for their operations –…

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 ask would you consider grand? All right then….duly noted.A wheel of cheese that is probably a bit more than 1m across –…

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 informal vocabulary.  First we went skating     Then came back to our place for individual pizzas and cake It was a great…

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 is a bit behind.   The first week started a bit down (the kids get two weeks off) – with everyone except…