Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! (~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”) Guess who else is digging Spring? A Young Lady who’s birthday falls not long after Easter! So we celebrated in true Spring style with colors galore and Petit Princes who wanted to arrange things just so and a medley of baking and caking and… Read More
Halloo there! We just got back from Alsace yesterday, which explains my absence from the blogosphere. And it’s tough settling back in. Petit Prince is weepy and my house is messy and we ran out of money and my nose is runny and I think it’s funny but it’s snot. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just… Read More
That’s probably a grammatically incorrect title, starting it with the word “why.” Starting anything with the word “why.” Or having truncated phrases with no correct subject-verb-object and treating them as sentences, for that matter. Gritting your teeth yet? But I did want you to know why I garden. It’s not like I need more things to do … This is Petit… Read More
Well I’m a little slow on the uptake for a post today because I want to do a giveaway (that is where my mind has been) but I haven’t yet received the articles in question to take pictures and woo you with them. So in the meantime, I will leave you with a few photos of the children’s “spectacle” (pronounced… Read More
You’ve heard about how superior French mothers are, right? Well I’m addressing that over at World Moms Blog. Just how superior they all are, and how superior I am by association. Okay, joking aside, I do have a few pictures to show you, even though I’m sending you over here to read what I wrote. I’m hoping you won’t mind… Read More
We knew that there was an element of danger involved in packing up our lives to spend a year in East Africa. We’d heard about the British ex-pat who got stabbed to death months before our arrival. She hadn’t been doing anything remarkable – just sitting in her car with the windows open, when a man came up to her… Read More
