My dad is unwell. He had a stroke on Monday and he is in the hospital struggling. I’ve never felt so far from “home”. I really wish I could be with my mom and dad and Jennifer hugging them.  I want to tell my blog the news and I have to post here out of…

Today I am sharing some photos of my kitchen because I took the time to clear the clutter and because I like to share. So welcome to my kitchen. As you enter by the dinning area there is a glass cabinet built into the wall. It’s a nice spot to put my beloved sentimental dishes…

Last week we had a really fun week showing Grandma C. and Aunt Sandy around Zurich. So much laughing and smiling. But now Grandma has had to go to the hospital instead of getting home. We are thinking of her every minute and hoping the doctors send her back to her own bed very soon.…

We took Grandma and Aunt Sandy to Lauterbrunnen – it’s a good place to take visitors for a few days. It’s easy to impress everyone there. It’s a huge glacier-formed valley lined with waterfalls and it has lots of cable cars to zip you up into the mountains. We ate some fondue and saw some…

So far we’ve shown them our school and taken them to the mountains (pictures to come). And we’ve put Sandy to work cleaning windows and doing our recycling: We’re having fun with them!

Living in a new country can be quite entertaining. Just going to the grocery store and trying all the new-to-us snack items is fun. I’d say we are still in the honeymoon period where I can spend a very long time looking at the cookie aisle. There are always things that make us snicker –…

Our Bea left us early this morning. All the 5th graders at her school go to the mountains for a week. She was so excited she couldn’t sleep last night. She is going to Torgon – it’s West and South of us in the French area of Switzerland. I can’t wait to hear all about it.…

It’s Monday. It’s three in the afternoon. I’ve got the yawns. Claire has gotten the flu or a bad cold. She was up in the night throwing up (sorry) so we didn’t get a ton of sleep. And now I have a handyman installing our ceiling lights. All day I’ve been sitting around watching Claire…