When I arrived at the mall this morning, everything was alight with Christmas decorations. We don’t have Thanksgiving to official mark the season, so it’s sort slinks in at its own pace. Before I entered the automatic doors, I needed to bypass the soldier with a machine gun, and the security guard asked to search my purse before I entered… Read More
Today is my birthday, and 46 never felt so good. In the morning, the kids sang happy birthday to me in the saddest voices you’ve ever heard because Matthieu woke them up early. But then they were off to get some administrative stuff done and I was able to have coffee, read the Bible, and pray in peace. I got… Read More
Copine means ‘girlfriend’ in French, and is pronounced like co-peen. A couple of girlfriends in my town – moms, whose lives are flexible like mine – have instituted a regular get-together over coffee so we can catch up on each others news. We call it café copine. This morning we met at my house over café, and cinnamon coffee cake muffins, sampled on… Read More
A very select few of you are looking at the title and saying, “Cool! Someone’s going to start playing the violin in the Goutet household!” (I’m looking at you Korinthia)! The rest of you are saying, huh?!?!? A luthier makes violins and violas and cellos and bases. Which makes his workshop a very cool place to be. With Juliet on piano and Gabriel on… Read More
Today is la rentrée in France — back to school! I thought our kids were the last ones yet to go, but I see on Facebook that some others started as late as yesterday. The boys stay in elementary school. Gabriel is in CM1, which is the equivalent of 4th grade. William is in CE1, which is the equivalent of 2nd grade…. Read More
If you got here by google search, I may have lured you under false pretences because the full title of this post is actually, “How to sort legos (and lose your sanity in the process).” I have an indifference-hate relationship with Legos. When they are directly in the path of my vacuum cleaner, they are sure to be sucked up without… Read More
