Les vacances d’hiver

Ahhh, les vacances d’hiver. Pure bliss. 6 weeks after Christmas/New Years break the French schools have a 2 week break. A friend in the US with some French family roots that still run deep calls this “national ski week”, which is actually fairly apt and concise of an explanation. A lot of families head over to les alps or the Pyrénées for a week of skiing during this winter break. It is a lot of fun, but it can be pricey when you are a famille nombreuse! We do like to go, and try to go now and then, but not this year for us! Maybe next year? Instead, we’ve spent the first week working on paperwork, making glorious messes, some local tourism, I’m hopeful that we will maybe get some lights hung and a few other odd jobs this weekend, Mama likes to dream!…

We took our three valentines out to lunch on Valentine’s day. Inadvertently we ended up at a crêpe place that seemed to be hosting a valentines lunch for a 70+ year old crowd. We were the youngest ones there by several decades, including the patrons, the chef and even the serveur. After, we took the girls out to the Pointe du Raz. The “end of the Earth” as they say here. It was a beautiful, sunny, day, though a bit windy. (I wish I could share some pictures but I’m struggling to get them to load- I’ll keep trying so check back!)

And, as quickly as it started our week as a group of 5 ended and Papa headed back to work. Our week of just girls was a bit less productive, but we rested, snuggled, got some paperwork sorted (new passports, galore!) and all that that entails.

Monday is back to school for the girls, and time for me to clean the house, top to bottom, and work on some of my other obligations! My parents are coming for a visit at the end of April so I have to get the house together! This involves hopefully hanging what little art we have on the walls, putting in light fixtures in, well, pretty much every room in the house (still!), and mopping floors, clearing dust from corners and all the exciting chores that never seem to make it to the top of the list among all the regular chores!