My son recently reminded us of that time he wanted to buy a farm (and I didn’t). I remembered blogging about it, and found it as a guest post on my friend’s site. I decided to repost it here so that I’d have it in my own archives. This happened about three years ago. “La ferme” has both a naughty meaning, which… 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
This girl is eleven. When you’re eleven, you no longer want to be a princess (except in the secretest part of your heart). So instead of princesses, you have a pizza party theme. In the evening. And you play Pictionary! And Lougarou (Werewolf). And you eat real pizza. And you take silly pictures. And your mom bakes a cake. (even if… Read More
I think it’s kind of cool that the spring festival for my kids’ school involves each class imitating – and learning about – a different artist. We’ve got Juliet’s class with Magritte “Ceci n’est pas une pomme” Juliet is holding her own surrealist illustration where Paris is drawn as stubble on a guy’s face, and it gets razed to the ground with the double… Read More
This weekend a very close friend of mine, Danila, celebrated her 50th birthday. The invitation to attend this elegant fête, that would be held at a small château – was tucked into their family Christmas card. So we’ve known about the event for four months. And for four months, I anticipated the celebration – not only because I was excited to help Danila welcome such… Read More
My husband bought a new lens. Our old lens is broken and we have another one that is not great quality. And, in addition to using the camera all the time for blogging, we have an upcoming event where we want to take family pictures (we’ll all be dressed up at a château) and we were also asked to photograph… Read More
