Pezenas – our southern-France home-away from home-away-from home
One day we drove out to a 500 year old mill on a river for a picnic. Sandwiches from a local boulangerie taste especially good on a half-a-millenium old stone table
One afternoon while I stayed at the house and worked as Alma slept Susan took the other kids to the Pezenas toy museum.
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This is my girl in an Olive tree. |
We let the kids pick out some ice cream to try to cool down when we were walking around town one day. Unfortunately Alma felt a bit left out- so we found a way for her to cool off as well.


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Micah turned 6 on Saturday.
We had a fantastic time together celebrating another year with our funny boy.
He had a great time on his birthday – family and friends – lego – playing in the yard which turns into hide-and-go-seek – turns into head-lamp and flashlight games – turns into bike riding with headlamps down the road in the dark.
Of the three older kids Micah has definitely had a harder time adjusting to the language, school etc – but he has not let all that affect his sense of humor. He is still a very funny kid.
This birthday also seems like a bit of a turning point for all of us, as Micah was the first to celebrate a birthday after we moved to France, so this is his third birthday here. So that means we’re now starting on our third time around on things. Third start of a school year, third autumn, third everything