- NEW VIDEO: Poppy and Henry Playing
Are we up for having visitors? Yes, please! Just ask Aunt Sarah and Uncle Newton who stopped in last week on their way through. For their first visit to Europe, we had two days and two nights to show them around our corner of France and serve as their European orientation course before they proceeded on [...]
According to centuries old tradition, muguet, or Lily of the Valley, is gifted on May Day in France, the sole day where anyone can sell bunches of the fragrant flower without permit or collection of tax. Self-proclaimed vendors appear in the streets offering sprigs of muguet to passersby. A smile and 2€ landed a participant [...]
For a while now Poppy has loved spinning. She doesn’t go around and around continuously, she just does one nice and clean twirl on the spot. She has actually gotten quite good at keeping her balance and stopping without tumbling. She now incorporates the ballerina arms above her head, so it’s even sweeter.
Well, a couple [...]
April concludes our fourth month here in France. We’ve now been through French school one-third of our scheduled time. On the one hand, it’s sort of scary to think that we’ve only got about eight months left to get up to comfortable fluency; on the other hand, it’s exciting to see how far we’ve come. [...]
