Our first camping stove meal

The first meals as campers where sandwiches and picnic food but on day two we decided to try our brand new camping stove! Boiling water for pasta was our first goal and with the lid on it took about 20 minutes to heat it up to boiling point and then 10 more for cooking the […]

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Duo dresses – sewing patterns

  After five years of being a boys mama I can go a bit crazy sometimes with the real “girl stuff” and the mum – daughter dresses is one of them! But instead of buying some I’d like to try and sew them myself and I thought I would share the patterns I found with […]

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Staying out (in) of the heat and sketching rompers

  Yesterday was one of those hot and sticky days when the most appealing thing is to stay in and do nothing. So that’s what we did Alva and me, absolutely nothing. Mathieu was at work and the brothers in school so we put on the AC, poured up some lemonade and put on a […]

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One year old

  Happy birthday my daughter! I never thought I would be blessed with both a boy and a girl but life is sweet to me  ♥  You, my beloved Alva, is a determined little being already and you are as stubborn as loveable. You almost never cry, you play by yourself, you taste all food, you […]

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School is out (almost)!

Summer is here and in France school ends in first week of July. But to be sure everybody will attend, the school show is a bit earlier. The kids sing some songs, the parents applauds like crazy and then everybody eats from a giant potluck. Viggo has been singing the same song since February I […]

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