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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December days

We are preparing Christmas in a slow paste in our home with Swedish traditional occupations, putting cloves into oranges or making felt gnomes and paper stars. I wish to create the same, or even better, childhood memories that I was given and it’s mostly about smell and taste. Like the wonderful smell of jacinthes or […]

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Our Easter week

I wish you all a late Happy Easter, we had a stomach flu at our house perfectly in time for the celebrations. Luckily the kids were spared so mom and dad could quietly be sick one at a time. Yuk! But now it’s over, as Mathieu’s days off… My mom was here last week and […]

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Budding artist

One thing that Alva absolutely LOVES right now is to bring out the kid’s pencil box, dive deep down into it and then hysterically wave with her tiny arms until they’re all over the floor. She then carefully selects a color and tastes if it’s good. I always check that the lids are on but […]

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Snow in the south

The day after we came home from the Alps we got surprised by the best thing ever, snow falling in the south of France! Apparently last time it snowed like this was 20 years ago so we felt really lucky. The kids thought it was awesome though I think the fact that we just came […]

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