Love is several sleepless nights in a row because your children share everything (except their toys). Love is putting down your fork and knife, after finally sitting down, with the delicious steak still in front of you because you hear the siren’s call: ”mamaaaaan – can you wipe my bum-bum. I have diarrhea (replete with description).” The steak seems less… Read More
Archives for April 2010
Life
This is a mall in Dubai, teeming with life (and fish) where Sir Renaissance is for three weeks. I miss him. Today I finished working on the memorial book of the Message mom who died. (Message is the anglo-mother community in Paris and we reunite through a website and various activities). She died in November from placenta acretia, leaving behind… Read More
A Day in the Country
A farm in Corbreuse See the stairs there at the end? Upon arriving, that’s where the children went off to play, climbing the steps up to the wall of the hamlet and shouting obscenities at pedestrians on the street. Yup. Guess which angel was leading the way on that charge? (hint: she’s six and rarely docile). Sir Renaissance ran off… Read More
Penance and Recompense
Petit Prince is getting quite adept at his walker – he almost doesn’t sit down at all, but likes the security of having the seat there should he lose his balance. All the mothers who are way more concerned about germs and mud and dangerous construction articles in my yard than I am are careful to instruct me that Petit… Read More
A Weekend in Alsace
This is Alsace, the home of colored houses. Do you know anything about it? No, neither did I. Pretty, isn’t it? I asked Sir Renaissance if we could paint our house this color, but he said no. I had to do a little google research post-trip to make better sense of the place we visited. We were in a tiny… Read More