It’s Summer! We’re having all the Summer feelings – hot, sunkissed, relieved, bored, content. We made pie for the Father on Father’s Day. The girls and I have been hanging out at the lake. Here’s the view from my spot in the shade. My girls are getting old enough – I don’t have to keep…

We’ve taken in a bit of Swiss sport and Swiss culture recently.  Last week the girls and I went to the Tour de Suisse bike race. It’s route came close by to our house – to Einsiedeln – so we had to go. It’s too bad Brian couldn’t come because he makes things like this…

I finished a new-to-me pattern today. The Extra Sharp Pencil Skirt from Liesl and Co. I’m afraid of zippers and hardly ever attempt them but this pattern may have gotten me over the hump. My invisible zipper is actually nearly all invisible. I’m very happy for a first try with this pattern. It has side…

A bunch of photos (befores and afters and works-in-progress) of my big project. GO HOME!

Brian took me to see the opera Norma on Saturday. Especially now that school’s out I can relate to Norma. Here are some of her words: Many passions torture my soul. I love and yet I hate my children! I suffer when I see them,I suffer when I do not,I feel painTogether with joy, as…

For Father’s Day Brian and I went on a hike… without the children. Yes, that’s right. After that soggy march through the mountains last weekend we could not convince them to go for a hike. Plus Bea has a bit of a cold. Oh well – Brian and I had a good time. He rode…

Claire is going to play cello next school year so we went into the city to rent one today. It’s bigger than she is and I feel like it’s so fragile – like I’m not qualified to touch it.

We went for a hike today – to Ägersee. It’s a nice big lake about a half an hour drive from home. It started out lovely and I was all blissful walking through the colorful meadows. But by the end we were completely soaked. It had started raining part way through our seven mile hike…

I’m moving along on my quilt. I’ve finished all the half-square-triangles and now I’m ready to start the curved portions. First I had to lay out all the pieces and choose which petal colors I wanted to match with each flower center color. Fun! As the girls wrap up their school year they always have…

Claire brought home the Diary of Anne Frank. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never read it before. But now that I am reading it I am amazed. I’m amazed at what a smart insightful person Anne Frank was. How can it be that she was only 14 and 15 when she wrote her diaries? Was…