Maëlle, Juju & Alex au K’nada

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Tonight, dinner time, we speak about a subject discussed at school (and in fact often at home):

Maëlle: “if you act badly, there will be consequences”.

Alex: “so for instance if you hurt someone, there are consequences”.

Maëlle: “yes. And if you fart…”

Juliette: “there are consequences?”

Maëlle: “no, there is the bathroom!”

Caption: “here is what happens at 6:30pm when you wake up early and don’t take a nap”

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Captured using the macro lens.

This never ending wait, the repetitive work, the bad news around us and the little bobos or annoying things. All that make us want to complain and ruminate.

I need to see the beauty that surrounds me and stop for real. I need to appreciate the little things and big hapinesses and thank God for that. So I’ll try to post on the things I love and that make me feel good. I hope you’ll share with us too what makes you feel good.

A tea party with my beloved daughter. Taking the time to play with her and watch her smiling when I get in the game.

To do more often… Just stop and live the moment.

Have a great weekend!

A while ago, Annabaliba tagged me for this Meme but I didn’t really take the time. But it’s never too late so here we go:

1/ My principal character: sociable

2/ The main quality I like in a man: Kindness

3/ The main quality I like in a woman: humour

4/ My main flaw: indecision, I am a real Libra!

5/ My main quality : open mindness

6/ The occupation I like the most : right now it would be sipping an iced-cappuccino in my backyard reading a great book (I’ve been dreaming about it for some days now). Otherwise, just be with people I love, travelling and eating.

7/ The recipe that makes me drool over : a duck magret, fresh foie gras sauté with grappes, a cassoulet, a tartiflette, some real chocolate profiteroles and a real crème brulée… in fact all the French dishes that are not easy to do or find here.

8/ Words I like : doudou, doucette, mei mei and di di (I use them in my head even if not for real yet), amen, bravo, zut, crap, merde and f*ck (update: for the last 3, I don’t really like them but sadly I use them very often).

9/ What I really dislike: my neighbours who don’t recycle and leave their AC turned on all summer even when gone, the selfish, boor, bent, racist people …pfff the list is too long, stupid people in general! ( I had to check in my dictionary because I didn’t know all the translations of the French adjectives, sorry if some don’t make sense to you).

10/ A dream : A trip around the world with Alex and our kids (Maëlle, mei mei, di di)

I might be one of the last person in bloggland to do this meme therefore I am not tagging anybody in particular but if you’ve never done it go ahead!

Everything is ok with us here, only we’ve been very busy and to be honest not really motivated to write anything, but you still get some pictures! Alex did travel a lot in the past weeks and was even able to spend a weekend in the middle of all these trips with his family in France. I went back to Toronto for work and took this opportunity again to spend some good time with my girlfriends.

Spring is finally here and we have appropriate activities like gardening and potting and Alex has started to build a deck. Maëlle is a popular girl, invited every weekend to Birthday parties, she is still a good student and she asks to help us on a regular basis. She is a lovely little girl who makes us laugh a lot with her expressions (mostly French, sorry): Mon Dieu (My God!), aie aie aie, je sais faire (which means I know how to do it. She says that in an exasperated voice for us to let her try until she asks us 2 second later : how should we do that? ), barbouillage (instead of gribouillage which means scribble), à cause que (instead of parce que which means because), oopsie… and she prays every evening, asking to have a little brother or sister to give him/her a bottle and to console him/her when he/she cries.

China is even more in our thoughts because of this horrible earthquake and of all those people who lost a loved one, especially their only child in one of these schools that collapsed. Something to remind me that life is fragile and that we need to enjoy people we love and tell them so. And that I should move my ass and live fully instead of complaining that nothing is happening like I’d like it to (a real Frenchie :-)) .

Mid-July we fly back to France. We are so excited! Lots of beautiful moments to come, like Alex’s little brother’s wedding and the baptism of François my new God son and just the happiness of being with our family!

Have a great weekend! Kenavo.

In hardly 4 days, this tree in front of our house is transformed.

Featured: flowers, all kind of flowers, colors, Ottawa’s Tulip festival, little Italy… and even Juliette’s new glasses

(clique moi / click me)

As usual, a click on the above thumbnail will teleport you in the April 2008 gallery