It's been a while eh?

Lest you think I've totally deserted this little space, I thought I'd throw out a shout

HELLO! BONJOUR!

It's the second day of Spring - YAY - and we are having a snowstorm! Imagine that!
Seriously, this is a BIG snowstorm for here but who can be mad when it's so pretty outside. The rest of the winter we were blessed with rain, rain and a little more rain - was remembering the years we lived in England - hmmmm Didn't like that too much.

Little Miss, if you didn't know, now wears glasses. I guess she's had them a couple months now. She looks adorable and when she's got them off she looks funny. Last Thursday she had her THIRD eye surgery - uh huh I said THIRD. She did great, as usual. She takes everything in stride, was excited for the day to come weeks ahead of time and man, was she ever pissed when the surgeon was running late and they took her to the OR almost 2 hours late. Good thing they gave her the Atarax before they came for her, she may have just told them how mad she was. That's my girl!

Seriously though, she's recovering great and even returned to school on Tuesday this week. It whipped her ass but she was happy to be back.

Normally, after eye surgery, well at least after the last two of her eye surgeries, the whites of her eyes were all red. ALL RED. We told her to expect this. The day after we got home post op, she went in to the big bathroom with all the mirrors and noticed her eyes were RED. She freaked! Poor kid! She thought there would be red on the skin OUTSIDE the eye, not inside. She called herself "scary" and it took a lot of consoling for her to stop crying. My heart broke. After calming her down and assuring her that it would go away (told her it was like a bruise on the skin that fades over time) she decided it wasn't so bad afterwards because, after all, it would go away. phew!

So she returned to school on Tuesday and she wasn't a bit concerned about what the other kids would say about her red eyes. I was worried, I really was. I was afraid she'd be teased. She got in the van after the morning session of school and was just as happy as ever. Apparently having red eyes made her all the more popular.
See, it pays to be an American in France.

Movie Stars, that's what we are.

That's all for now

Holidays

I can't get in to the holiday spirit.

I miss my girls and I'm sad that it's been a while since I've seen them.

The ideal situation would be all four of the kids together drinking hot chocolate, decorating the house, wrapping presents for one another and laughing a lot.

I'm. just. so. sad.

slacker blogger here

The problem is there simply isn't anything overly interesting to talk about right now. Yeah, we're trying to gear up for Christmas and by the way I have NOTHING done yet as far as gifts go. We decorated the outside a bit last weekend (in the rain), then the wind came along and kept blowing over our nicely decorated Christmas tree ! After the umpteenth time of righting it, I weighed it down with some big boulders from the garden - that ought to do it! Hubs supported the tree with some string, but the wind was too strong to hold onto it and it snapped. Oh well. It's upright now!

I'm taking French classes through the local university three nights a week. They were kind enough to put me in the "intermediate group" rather than the baby group, which was a nice ego booster, but man, it's hard to learn a new language! I get by, but I'd really really like to be fluent one day. My French friends are tolerant with me and aren't laughing too hard, so I guess that's a plus.

Seriously though, why does every single THING have to be either masculine or feminine? Why oh why can't they just use IT? Why? I just can't seem to remember which one is feminine and which word is masculine UGH! I guess I'll get it eventually!

So Hubs is making yet another trip to China. The frequent flyer miles are great BUT why do these trips always seem to land at the most inopportune time? Why? We have Christmas to prepare for. We still don't know if his family is coming to our house or if we are going there. If we're having guests, it's always good to know way in advance so I can kick into deep clean mode and uber preparation mode, but it's always better when Hubs is actually here to help.

So on the way to meet hubs at work to do our kid transfer on the nights of my classes, our little darlings had some priceless "back seat ramblings" that I told myself I MUST remember so I can blog them. Sure enough in between the French verb conjugation and figuring out what's feminine and what's masculine the ol brain forgot all the things the kids said. So I'm left with nothing new to report. Hopefully they'll repeat them when my brain is more open to remembering (that WILL happen right?)

Until next time, have a safe and happy holiday and sending you many wishes for a bright and prosperous new year!

HUGS

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AMERICA

Enjoy your families and be safe!