I do love setting up an Easter egg hunt for the girls. All the cute foil-wrapped chocolates, the Easter grass and fluffy chicks. This year I made fabric baskets from this pattern. The pictures don’t show it but this was the second year in a row that it snowed during our egg hunt.

Today we got back home after a full day and Claire was melting like only a two year old can. She has been showing renewed capacity for completely losing it lately. She was angry, crying with those hicups and unable to express why she was so upset. So it went on like that for a…

We are so so ready for Spring to arrive. We had snow all day yesterday and today it’s hazy and cold – we haven’t seen the sun in a long time. Sounds like Michigan is having similar weather.  We’ve got all our Easter decorations out: We’ve made few more decorations: We had one warm day…

Bea seems to be invited to a birthday party every few weeks lately. So I’ve been making throw pillows and now a tote bag using this patchwork technique. They make a nice gift for little girls. Bea chooses the fabric from my stash and I stitch them up – a good collaboration.  The only problem…

On Saturday we took some marshmallows up to the forest and roasted them on a fire. On Sunday we took the train up into the mountains to watch a big international alpine ski competition. I’ve never been to anything like it before. We decided to go at the last minute because Brian’s co-worker was volunteering…

Not sure where my mind was this morning when I turned the dial on the oven to 200 Celcius instead of converting to Ferenheit. The second batch of apple chips is in the oven now.

I showed you the picture of Bea in her muddy clothes – well here is what I found in her coat pockets when I went to wash her coat.

We had a nice double rainbow yesterday. We get so many here. I’m really going to miss this view from our living room. Bea is in the middle of Forest week – her class goes everyday and plays in the forest they even cook their lunch two of the days. It’s been rainy so she…

Don’t know why I haven’t ever taken a walk along the river just outside the main train station in Zurich – it’s lovely.  With our last days here passing so quickly – I feel the need to capture all the everyday things (like the trains and trams) so we will remember them.  Yippee – spring…