September UPDATE on the Hamori Family in Budapest So where to begin? School… I have never felt more excited to go to school before! So challenging, everyday different and new people to meet at every turn. I love a fresh start! Last night I had my first parent teacher interviews where I was the teacher! I entered…
I honestly didn’t have any idea what parkour was or why my 12 year old son decided to start jumping, climbing, dangling, vaulting, rolling, tumbling throughout the course of the day. He saw obstacles in everything, and wanted to maneuver his body over them, under them, down them, along them, up them and through them…
To appreciate Mother Nature in all her forms, gardening is a celebration of creation. Watching and nurturing seeds to sprouts, the stages plants go through until they flower and lastly give fruit: is a lesson in patience and love. Gardening is a common pass time and no wonder, when you can get your hands dirty…
Daniel has been taking guitar lessons from Flo lead guitarist from our local (somewhat famous) Goulamas’k for two years. We feel very lucky to have this opportunity. They started him on the acoustic guitar and he made good progress the first year. He really wanted to move to the electric guitar early on but we…
When you think of France, what image appears? These pictures sum up France to me. Here we wait for our flight, trying to figure out if six hours is enough time to venture from CDG to Paris for a quick browse around. One saving grace is that our luggage goes straight through to Montpellier,…
I am Canadian. And I Blog. Some of you have noticed that I talk differently from the majority of the English speakers in the Languedoc. In a million years I never would have guessed that my English and not my French would be a problem when moving to southern France. Trying to take it in…
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin Envy is the emotion you feel when you measure yourself up to the idea of what another person may be and you fall short. Not to be mixed up with jealousy which is feeling a sense of loss when someone’s…
Our family trekked the 20 minutes to Ginestas a quaint village to see our friend’s band, Swing Easy play. We know Sammy and Mel though choir and wanted to watch their performance at Restaurant L’Anais. We were surprised to find a traditional building with a hand painted mural on the inside wall as the…
Friday was another wonderful and busy day. I dropped mom off at work and headed towards Kitsilano my old neighborhood to visit my step sister. We decided to go to Granville Island for lunch and meet up with my good friend Maja from White Rock. The markets were busy, full of tourists during Spring Break….
First Came the Plan How do you get from A – B, if A is South Surrey, B.C. Canada and B is an unknown area in southern France? Lists! A big believer in lists, I sat down for about 5 minutes and wrote the one below. We stuck to it until every item was ticked off…