France

Mont-Saint Michel in 1990

Mondays are for dreaming: Mont Saint-Michel

As summer winds down and I get the children ready to return to school, I often feel nostalgic for my own school days. Today I'm thinking of the fall 19 years ago, which I spent in Paris. It was my junior year of college and I was ostensibly there to …

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A bit of Marie Antoinette’s folly

I rarely post pictures that don't have my children in them, but for some reason today I felt like sharing a photo for your Friday viewing just because it's pretty. This one was taken in the little faux village that Marie Antoinette built on the …

A little chick in the Temple of Love

For Photo Friday at Delicious Baby. Marie Antoinette's whimsical garden and village were my favorite part of visiting the palace at Versailles. The children were enchanted by the grotto and the cottages too even though they were tired after a long …

Portrait of the artist in Paris

Debbie over at Delicious Baby has a feature called Photo Friday. Here's my first contribution: Tommy, my artist, in the Place du Tertre, just shy of Sacré-Cœur. He would have stayed there all morning if we let him, wandering from artist to artist, …

A return to Giverny

Tommy has recently developed a fascination with my cookbooks. He loves to read them and look at the pictures, generally asking me all the while if we can make all of the desserts. One of his favorites is really more of a coffee table book, Monet's …