Oh wow. My blog. I’ve missed you! Readers, I’ve missed you, too. I have about an hour – a breath of time – to give an update for those of you who don’t get the more regular updates of my author newsletters. (Those come out once every two weeks, and if you want to subscribe, you can do so here)…. Read More
It’s a whirlwind summer for us, which is a treat after a pretty difficult year. Our usual two weeks in Bretagne (Brittany) became one week because we had to squeeze in a trip to the US and our pre-teen and teen camps in Switzerland later this month. I was really bent on enjoying our time in Brittany because I’m not wired… Read More
Claude Monet’s house is located in the small town of Giverny, about an hour outside of Paris. If you want information on how to access the house, click here. We went on a perfect, sunny spring day so it was not surprising that the place was packed and the line to get in was about an hour long. I suspect… Read More
On Thanksgiving Day I met a fellow blogger at Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. I thought I would share some photos with you, as well as tell you a little bit of history about Haussmann, and how he changed the face of Paris. I’ve actually wanted to share with you, for awhile now, what the Parisian building called a “haussmannien” is all about. But I never… Read More
To celebrate fifteen years of marriage, we had a romantic weekend getaway in Chantilly. My friend Danila offered to take Juliet, and suggested some mutual friends to take William and Gabriel, and then offered to collect all three of them after church so we would only have to make one pit-stop at the end of our mini vacation. The weekend… Read More
Hey friends. We’ve been in Brittany for a week now, and will be staying for one more. Living in collectivity has its challenges, even for an extended family that gets along as well as ours does. I find myself wanting to come here to this blog, and share my news with all of you. Because that’s me time, I think? Me… Read More
