Everyday when Lucy and Otto get home from school, I ask them what they had for lunch. In Southwest France, the kids take a wonderful amount of time for lunch. They spend at least an hour and a half eating lunch followed by play. In Seattle, Lucy had something on the order of five minutes [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Clementine classifies bread with other recyclable items like paper and cardboard. When given a Pain au chocolate (chocolate cro-sant) she immediately unwraps the outside to remove the line of chocolate, otherwise known as the “choclectomy”. This was going great for her until we picked up some pastries that were hot out of the oven. Little [...]
While driving the diesel Kangoo, I’ve stopped for a pittering of puppies, a farm dog and a dog who decided he wanted to watch the sun set while sitting on the fast country road. Brent also stopped for a dog and was told off by a local as to avoid the dog nipping at the [...]
I’ve officially changed my watch and computer to France time. Now it’s fer reals. Today we’re still getting through jet lag … still. For the first time since Thursday all three children were asleep at the same time, which lasted for approximately twenty minutes but may have actually been two hours. Minty is boldly testing [...]
