Today is Wednesday, my favorite day of the week. Most children in France don’t have school on Wednesdays so that allows time for us mothers to positively interact with our children. I like to do such activities as teaching them to read in English, arts and crafts, baking together, planting seeds. So today I thought we’d start with some gardening…. Read More
Archives for March 2010
The Dessert Years
Last night Petit Prince had the croup and it was a dirty night (literal translation from the french). Our first experience with the croup was the night before we moved to France when we were thankfully staying at Betsy and Nerses’s place. At three in the morning Young Lady barked herself awake, and Betsy, who had loads of croup experience… Read More
Remembering Moguay
When we returned to Hargeisa after being in Djibouti for three months and Kenya for four, we learned that chubby little Kadra had died. She was the baby we thought would make it. She was doing so well, and due to the language barrier, we weren’t even able to learn the cause of her death. Another little creature, whose name… Read More