Yearly Archives: 2012

Happy New Year

I hope you have a wonderful New Years celebration in store. After battling a MASSIVE crowd at our local Auchan we left with just a few goodies for tonight. It’s shaping up to be a pretty great night with these crazy kids. I wish you all the best for this New Year! CHEERS!!!! Kelly

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Ice Skating at the Grand Palais

I hope you had a lovely holiday filled with fun surprises and lots of time with loved ones! We unfortunately came down (the entire household in turn) with the stomach flu the day before Christmas Eve. Ughh. Such bad timing. Looking on the bright side though it only lasted 24 hours and forced me to...

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Goldilocks and the 3 teddy bears

I have had this particular photo shoot tumbling around in my head for the longest time. I would lie in bed thinking about each and every detail. Finally I was down to the wire with the move to Paris and beating the cold. I was so excited to make the jam jar “chandelier” and find all...

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Foreign Service Friday: The Hobbit at a French Mansion

At each embassy there is a “team” (at least in Paris there are three, Timor only one) of people who’s jobs are making sure moral is high at the embassy. They do this through wonderful activities in the host countries, holiday party planning and other wonderful social gatherings. The team here at Paris with the...

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French Carousels

What is it with France and carousels? Honestly I don’t know. When I researched it I came up with zilch. At first I thought maybe they invented them. Which still might be true but the first carousel for children (not for actual testing of riding prowess with gold hoops etc) was located in Conney Island. Whatever...

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