tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283327906804573002024-03-19T09:30:02.280+01:00♥ ♥ ♥Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-69540215199913030262013-11-05T15:18:00.001+01:002013-11-05T15:20:00.567+01:00the greatest<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Chan Marshall is a very inspiring woman to me, how she became like a butterfly with the years, shining with beauty and yet so fragile at the same time. I think she got a little crazy on her last haircut but I love that she had the guts to dare, at 40. And <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDbPrOuXq2s">Cherokee</a> (not sure about <i>this</i> video though) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nl3Oo4-IQ4">Ruin</a> definitely were the songs of my spring and summer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As I am approaching 40 myself, I understand more and more that life is a journey. Not a long time ago, I was still feeling like I would be there forever. Now I know life is fragile and if you don't fix your problems now, they might really ruin your moment on this earth. I feel I have less time now to fix my problems and enjoy life, and it's good that I feel this kind of urge in a way because it helps me move on and up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Somebody told me yesterday that the love and happiness you give today is given forever, but the years gone with you not giving love and happiness can never be given back.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've always been proud of my blog. I don't care if it's one small tiny space lost in the ocean of millions of blogs. I just wanted to write and share my experience with other women (men are absolutely welcome but I don't fool myself: these topics will mainly interest women).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well, it's been like that. And this is how I met Nora, FCC, Alexis, Maria, Kerry, Polly, and Kiki, and... No one among my friends and family - except for my man and my daughter - knows about my blog. I've always prefered to gather new friends, even "virtual" ones, women from all over the world, and not get easy comments from friends or family members who are going to like whatever I write, no matter what.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Writing this blog has kept me connected to other women when I was pregnant and off work, and then when Swann was a baby and I was at home taking care of him, and then after, going back to work. I realized that we often feel the same emotions about our babies, our kids, our motherhood, our womanhood and through the blogs, I have found new inspirations (education, decoration, music...). And even if I have less time to write, I still love this blog and enjoy visiting the others'. And so what if some people read my blog and don't like what I write, especially if they do it in a looking-through-the-peephole kind </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of way, somewhere I am sure they wished they had the guts to actually go out and write a blog. So they can keep coming if they feel like it, they might even learn something about life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And by the way, I just graduated with a master's degree and I am quite proud of myself (this explains also why you haven't heard a lot about me: working and studying takes time!). This was a long process to do so, as you know I am not exactly 25 anymore, but I am pretty happy with my master in foreign languages and cultures didactics. Now I can put on the table my work exeprience and four degrees in different foreign languages and didactics, like my man says, this makes me "a very intelligent woman" ☀☀☀ (also read l...o...l)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Seriously, I don't think intelligence has anything to do at all with academic education. If anything, I have been watching well-educated people act like real morons lately and I don't think that going to university helps leading an intelligent or happy life, even though it can definitely help in other fields. I think it's more what you do with your degrees, and mostly what drives you, how you make your decisions in life and how you handle good and bad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And I don't care what anybody says, I'm going to spoil her like a Gypsy mother because she means the world to me, and she deserves it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I love you Florina, eşti cea mai frumoasă ♡♡♡</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I want to wake up early in the morning and do some workout and go out in the world and achieve my dreams. I just want to do it. Make it happen. Get right back on my feet when I fall and get stronger each time I feel defeated.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He loves cars and motos and garbage trucks a lot, dancing to nursery songs on the Internet, playing ball, running, walking backwards, cleaning (I know!), and talking.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>lalu, vava?</i> (salut, ça va?)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am so proud of my son. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-10519439367700211462013-02-07T15:16:00.000+01:002013-02-07T15:16:26.868+01:00face to face<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So I finally joined in the Facebook family. I <strike>am</strike> was not a social network kind of person (says the girl who is writting this blog).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know all of you must be on Facebook already and what I'm going to write here will probably remind you of when you first became "friends" again with your oldest friends. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Maybe it is because I just turned 38, but for me, it was a bit of a shock to see the recent pictures of some of my childhood friends, to say the least. <i>What the f*ck?! They look so much like... grown-ups...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Last night I spent more than an hour chatting on Facebook with my very first boyfriend. I was 12. He was around 13-14. He was a graffiti artist then, and still is. When he showed me a picture of him now, with his son who is around the same age as my daughter, I felt a great relief: he looks just like I would have imagined. Finally someone who I can relate to! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was quite amazing to talk with him and to hear about his life and what's been going on for him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This Facebook revival made me think a lot. It's like each time a new old friend shows up, a part of me that was deeply burried shows up, revealing to me that, contrary to what I believed, I am still the same, and in a way, they all are, too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Marina, Sandra, David, Nathalie... At first I almost hated them for being so physically different. How dare they show me how much older we are?! And then, quickly, my vision changed, and I started loving them again for being there, no matter how different from each other we have grown, no matter their lives and surroundings. Some of them have posted school pictures and there I am, with my turquoise Converse shoes and my hair straighter and blonder than it is now. As I look at myself, over 25 years ago, I can see that I am the same: bold and shy, a big mouth with a secret heart, rough and sweet, a dreamer, tough and fragile, light and dark, happy and angry. I was a child with an urgent desire to become an adult. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lately I have been feeling that I am nowhere near who I thought I would become at this point in my life - I was wrong. I think I am just who I've always been.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">They gather the leaves and make a mountain, and jump on it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I want to feel the joy of life, and not let small things bother me.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">(Easier said than done.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Four more years.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well, the world is not all bad in the end. As I am reading the Dalaï-Lama, I understand that it often depends on how you look at things. But this new day makes me happy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I like this picture that he posted on twitter.</span>Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-49108843719065720222012-09-17T13:09:00.000+02:002012-09-17T13:09:16.644+02:00Amsterdam ♥♥♥ (part 2)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It would be great if here too, we could barbecue in the parks, like in Amsterdam. And ride our bikes everywhere.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It would be fun if there were pools for kids in the parks where they can play while parents chat drinking wine with their feet in the water, like in Amsterdam.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It would be nice if people said hello to you in the streets. And if they had the same look on eachothers as they do in Amsterdam.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But Paris is just not Amsterdam, and I guess you have to live with it... (I might get myself a bike though...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today — especially — I am a very proud maman. My daughter is going to <i>collège</i> (junior high school). I look at her and I think she's just amazing. She's fun and witty and pretty and curious, and she's got a lot of personality.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I recently got her a portable phone. To the recurent question "Maman, when will I have a cell phone?", I've been answering for years "You'll have one when you go to junior high" and, well... this is now. (To be honest, I got her one mainly because I feel more secure to know she can call if needed.) Of course, she spent her time sending and receiving textos yesterday and this morning! Oh la la, it's just a start! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've noticed that lately, I've spent a lot of time with her. Shopping for school and new clothes, baking cookies, chatting in her room. I want to enjoy this moment as much as I can. I feel like I am holding on to something that will have to change, no matter what, because she is growing and that's a good thing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But for the moment, she is still my little (almost big) girl, and I know this is going to be an important year, so I'm glad I can be present for her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've looked at the other mothers in front of the school this morning. You could see they all had made an effort to look a little special today. I guess we want our kids to be proud of us, too. I'm thinking when Swann will go to junior hight school, I will be ten years older, and I will have to have a very good anti-aging cream! So far I'm doing pretty well and people still call me <i>mademoiselle</i> most of the time, so I think I'll be fine...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ok, why am I talking about anti-aging cream anyway? Uhh... I guess this is the first-day-in-junior-high-for-my-daughter effect...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Florina, je t'aime ♥♥♥</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We fell in love with Amsterdam. Was it the niceness of the people? Or their easy way to be? Amsterdam is open-minded and tolerant, charming, green, and fun.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And I finally did it. On my last post, I wrote about the Paris wheel and said I had been too scared to go on it. Well, I did it yesterday, and I survived, and I actually enjoyed it a lot. I couldn't say I was extremely comfortable up there, especially with a bit of wind and a weird sound from the engine, but I got to see the most beautiful view on Paris by night.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">By the way, is there anything cutter than my little boy saying "oh-oh"? This is his new favorite, he says oh-oh when something looks unfamiliar, or when something fell on the floor for instance. I admit I do say oh-oh quite often just to hear him repeat it after me. Oh--oh. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Absolutely adorable.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yesterday I took my kids to the Jardin des Tuileries. Maybe one of the most beautiful places on earth. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Looking at the ferris wheel, it reminded me of one of the first dates I had with Earl, and he wanted us to go up there and I said I was scared, and he called me a chicken (which I am, and also I have vertigo). I said I would go for my 35th birthday and I still haven't. Maybe next year, who knows. Now Florina wants to go with me, too. I'm trapped.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And then 30 minutes later, I was in my kitchen making dinner. Deep inside, I know how lucky I am, because this city, well, this is my home and I can't tell with words how much I love it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've noticed yesterday that I hadn't posted anything for more than a month. Wow. Time flies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I could say that I've been working and with the kids on holidays and all, it was not easy to find time for myself. Which is true. But I should also say that I needed time off, was wondering if I should continue this blog or just slowly drift away and disapear from the blog world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The thing is, it takes time to write a blog. And also, lately I haven't had anything that I wanted to share, I felt more like living life and not keeping it on this blog. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And then yesterday, I started taking pictures with my feet on them, and I thought "I'll post that one". And that one. And that one. Am I back to the blog? It looks like I am.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And then today I have a message from my blog friend <a href="http://www.somethingimade.co.uk/">Alexis</a>, and I want to know about Coco and Henry, and I wonder how <a href="http://round-circles.blogspot.fr/">Nora</a> is, and what <a href="http://frenchcannescannes.blogspot.fr/">FCC</a> have been doing lately. And what about <a href="http://theseventytree.blogspot.fr/">Kerry</a> and her lovely finds on the Internet? And <a href="http://lamaisondannag.blogspot.fr/">Anna</a>'s beautiful interiors.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I missed that!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh, and Swann has started saying words that we can understand! So far he was speaking his own little language that sounds more like an Indian language. It is sooooooo (read a hundred O's) cute! Like "asi" for "merci", "sosu" for "chaussures" (shoes), "nan" for "non"/"no". He says "daddi" with a French kind of "i", and "nana" or "Oïna" for Florina. I think with "no" and "thank you" and his pretty smile, the world is his now. I love that he can start expressing himself much better, with words but also with gestures, how he takes our hands to take us where he wants to go, or brings us our shoes when he wants to go out. Also, he can say goodbye in both French and English, which is absolutely adorable.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And my girl, she is becoming such a big girl! She's into the show "Shake it up" now and could spend the day in front of Disney Channel, which, unfortunately for her, we don't allow. She loves wearing bright colors. She hates salad and could easily live without eating fruits and vegetable (expect for berries and artichokes), but she cares about the environment and she loves exotic food. Yes sometimes/often she speaks her mind more than she should, but you should have seen her dancing in front of hundreds of people at her dance show, she was not scared at all, she loved it and she was splendid!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This morning I went to enrol my daughter in her future new school, the junior high school (or secondary school, or as we say in France "collège"). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In less than two weeks, school is going to end and it's going to be the end of primary school for her. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When I left the office, it was the break (my God, the bell rang SO loud, I almost had a heart attack) and all the kids where going out of class, and they looked so big compared to her. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I went back home with tears in my throat. I know this is very silly. She's growing. It's a new chapter that she is going to write, and today it makes me feel very nostalgic. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know it's going to be great. I know it's going to be exciting and challenging. I know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But today, I just feel like I felt when she started pre-school, years and years ago. My heart is happy and proud, but also heavy, and a little worried.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Waffles for breakfast with lots of Nutella.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Where </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">is Summer?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sometimes you have all you've ever dreamed of, and yet it doesn't seem to be enough, or right. Can I ever be satisfied? I'm trying hard to find peace in life, but it's not always easy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is a boy. No doubt about it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He runs. He jumps. He hits you with his head and that means "I like you, I want to play with you". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I put my hand on his head and stroke his hair. Pfft. He's already gone, running to the other side of the room, grabbing a toy, grabbing anything that comes his way and throwing it, banging it, using it as a car. And making the sound. Brrrh. Boys do that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Before him, I was used to a baby sitting on my lap and playing quietly. That's all I knew. Before my daughter, I had held only one baby, and she was a girl, and she was rather quiet too. I thought all babies were like that, apart from a few special "cases". I didn't really believe in the cliché about girls being quiet and boys being "active".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well, it may have nothing to do with the fact that he is a boy. But, boy, is he acting like a boy!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And you know what? As much as I would love for him to hug me without pulling my hair and biting my cheek at the same time, I love it. I'm learing. I know it won't be long before he can run faster than me, but it's okay, because I'll find a way, somehow I will follow and adapt to him. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I wish you all a beautiful weekend. ♡♡♡</span>Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-31051537411179180812012-06-20T22:16:00.002+02:002012-06-20T22:16:42.833+02:00changing<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lately my life has been different. I work more, I leave home early in the morning and come back later than before. Today for the first time I was working all day. The kids are at home on Wednesday and they stayed with Earl. When they came back home from the park, I felt a little strange, it felt as if I had been away for a long time, as if I had come back from a long trip and everybody had made their new habits, without me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I put Swann to bed like I do every night. Now we usually read a book before turning off the lights, and he likes keeping the book in his bed and continues to look at it after I left the room. When I come back a while later, he's often asleep, lying on the book. Tonight</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I kissed him a little more than usual.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I felt guilty but thinking that I shouldn't feel guilty to work, I felt sad but thinking that I shouldn't feel sad. I also felt good that I have finally come to a point where I can work and be a mother at the same time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Life is different also because something has changed in me and I hope it will stay like this. I feel more peaceful, even though I don't think it's very visible yet, I've been trying to give less importance to the things that usually bother me (like problems of organisation at my school for instance) and focus more on trying to be happy and content with small things. Does what I'm writing make any sense? I'm pretty tired tonight...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh and I <i>will</i> take yoga class next year, starting in September, I can't wait!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh and I've decided to take a Japanese cooking class when our finances will allow me to... I can make things like maki and onigiri, but I want to learn how to cut the fish to make sashimi, and also learn the traditional home cooking. I have an absolute admiration for traditional Japanese manners. And also I want to be in the position of the student again, and feel the satisfaction of learning something new.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I do believe that one can learn all their life. Actually, today more than ever, I can feel that I can learn more at 37 than ever before.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Absolutely no time for blogging of course, barely a minute or two here and there to visit the blogs I like... </span><br />
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<br />Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-52271426860572113692012-06-04T11:19:00.002+02:002012-06-04T11:19:40.631+02:00Mother's Day<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yesterday was Mothers' Day, and I am a very lucky mother. I got hugs from my baby, and beautiful gifts from my daughter. There is nothing better than handmade gifts, and she did very well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I love my children so deeply and I am sooooooo proud of them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ahh... Obviously I still have no time to blog. Days seem to go at lightspeed and I barely can find time to rest once in awhile. Sometimes I wish I could be a housewife and just take care of the house and my family (including myself!), but then I think it would be hard to be at home all day. I'm reading a book about anxiety and stress and I must say that I have all the symptoms! But at least I am aware of it, and to fix a problem, you need to acknowledge you have one, so it's a good start ;-) I am thinking of starting yoga or pilates next year, something good for my body and my mental. Any tips?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Have a great week and I hope to "see" you soon!</span>Anabellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00178447113138261177noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428332790680457300.post-52047950180304982622012-05-28T22:51:00.001+02:002012-05-28T22:51:21.945+02:00Sunshine<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh what a beautiful weather this weekend. I hope you all enjoyed it. But tomorrow it's time to go back to work, ahhh, sometimes it's good to stay at home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We're planning to go to Amsterdam this Summer, and this year, for once, I am organizing everything in advance (I mean, if you consider late May being in advance for August...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yoshi is 62.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is Japanese. He comes from Kobe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He came to France to improve his French. He wishes to go to Africa and help the populations in danger.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is retired.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In Japan, he used to work in a hospital, he was a biologist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">His wife stayed in Japan. He is alone in Paris.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This morning in class, we worked on a game that is called, in French, <i>un portrait chinois</i>, which consists in defining yourself through images:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If he was a landscape, Yoshi would be a mountain. If he was a season, he would be Springtime, because he loves when cherries blossom. If he was a room, he would be the rooftop of his house, this way he could protect his wife and his house would be safe. If he was a place, he would be a forest, because he likes calmness and tranquility.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yoshi had three children, but only one is still alive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Two days ago, I asked him to make a sentence to express a wish. He said: <i>Je souhaite qu'il soit heureux à jamais</i> (I wish for him to be happy forever and ever).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I will probably never see Yoshi again. But something in him deeply moved me. Sometimes people can affect your life and sometimes — most of the time —, they will not even know it. This is the beauty of this world, and the beauty of my job.</span></div>
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