I’m being tongue in cheek, of course. I always feel guilty that we don’t spend enough quality time with our kids and here we managed to do it two days in a row!! We should get an award. We went to a farm in the inner city ran into some friends there petted the goats cautiously observed the kid cautiously… Read More
Archives for October 2011
Thoiry
I am honored to be writing for World Moms Blog and my introductory interview is here. I’ll be posting there about once a month. Sir and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary with an intimate lunch in one of the poshest restaurants in Paris. Or at least that’s the way it should go, but we took the kids to the… Read More
Things We’ve Been Doing
Some of the things we’ve been doing lately. Finding spider webs Going to daddy’s « bring your kids to work day » where there was make-up and entertainment and magicians and running through the halls and taking the metro. We’ve also been botching matcha growling celebrating Sir’s 44th birthday and working our way through a feast getting serenaded (Sir, that is) by… Read More
Who’s the Bigger Idiot?
Petit Prince has the chicken pox and has trouble sleeping, which means I have trouble sleeping. And I don’t even want to sit up with him and nurse him because, until today, we had no heating. Our workers are supposed to be painting our old fashioned radiator a raspberry color to complement my pink kitchen but they have dropped off… Read More
Young Lady Has a Friend
Young Lady has a friend. I met her for the first time last year when she walked into her ballet class and saw “Anne;” they threw their arms around each other and called out each other’s names in delight. I must admit to being surprised at her objection of affection – slight, rather stringy hair, awkward sort of girl. I… Read More
Filet Mignon of Porc
I found this interesting recipe here for filet mignon de porc. It uses vanilla. And coriander. Together! And since another friend brought me vanilla beans back from Madagascar a day after I had used my last one (I could start trafficking these), what better way to get them put to good use than … to use them! You need about… Read More