Going to The Tour de France was always something we dreamed about when we decided to move to Europe. But then after went to the Tour of Switzerland a couple times we just hadn’t thought about going to The Tour de France lately. Until yesterday morning when Brian was catching up on tour news and…

Claire says pacaroni instead of macaroni. And she says crap mom instead of clap mom. Bea keeps asking me to make treasure hunts (like the one she saw on Peppa Pig). I just draw pictures of things on index cards. Like a picture of her bed and then on her bed is a card with a picture of the freezer. At…

We often have rough mornings because someone is not a morning person. But this day we had a really nice morning. Makes me think of a bumper sticker I saw a long time ago: sometimes I wake up grumpy, sometimes I let him sleep. In our house the grumpy one is a her. A little her who’s…

Fireworks and crowds oohing and ahhhing. Corn on the cob with lots of butter and pepper. Big fields colored by the sun low in the sky. Old barns. Rummage sales. Outside parties with deviled eggs, potato salad in Tupperware bowls and pie. Mmmmm pie. Jello desserts. Parades and American exuberance. Purple cone flowers, sunflowers and…