here she is, sweet miss pants taking a bite of raw zucchini... the first fruit from the garden. she loved it as you can see from the look in her eyes.

otherwise known as, look how gorgeous that is!

the gorilla gardening experiment is underway.
beans and sunflowers have been planted so far. cantelopes to come...
more photos will be posted as soon as there are more developments...

i am always jealous of my friends in the states who tell me all about their mad coupon-ing, the free groceries, or better yet- making money at the grocery store.

well, it happened.
France has decided to join the world of amazingly awesome good deals.
here is the scoop.

i love my garden. its tiny. some people might not even consider it a garden. but i have managed to plant and plant and plant, using every single square inch that i can. i am the kind of gardener who won't stop. i go out and check every seedling, i plant the edilbes with the ornamentals, thin and replant, check sun exposure and clip anything that prevents good sun light, water, breathe on and stand over, watching.

its not very pretty when you look from far away, but when you look closely its well, Lovely.

Our raclette dinner a few months ago got us an invitation to Collette and Joes- our French neighbors across the street.

For you foodies...
We started with 4 different appetisers 2 made from puff pastry, 1 homemade pizza bites and 1 cheese puffs.

Aioli is:
homemade mayo with olive oil, garlic and egg yolk
served with: fish and boiled veggis.

We were then served salad and 3 diff cheeses, roquefort, brie and chevre.

We were served 4 different wines with the different courses, sangria, rosé, red and champagne.

We moved in in November. We were gone most of December, back in Jan and gone Feb-April. So, I guess the place still feels new to me...
Several people have asked for photos.

Warning: our place is much smaller than our last- even though our last place wasn't big by American standards. On a side note, I had an interesting conversation with someone who gave me a perspective on the American 'bigness' and how the French view us... Eye opening...

May 24th is our 13th anniversary.
For the past couple of years I have used May to feature songs that describe our relationship, my thankfulness for my husband, or some aspect that I want to highlight...

The other day we were talking about the differences in our personalities and my husband made a comment that was basically along the lines of this lyric from this song...

"I'm looking for a hard headed woman.
One who will make me do my best.
And if I find my hard headed woman, I know my life will be blessed, yes, yes, yes."

We got in Saturday night after getting stuck in the Frankfurt airport for 8 hours. The travel was pretty exhausting and we are all far from feeling our normal selves.

While in the US the kids all got pretty sick and are still healing. Miss Pants doesn't seem to be getting better, her cough seems worse. Today I made an appointment for all 3 kids with our ped here.

Through the Disney volunteer program we were able to get 3 free tickets to Disney World and visited there 2 weeks ago (I know, I've been lame about blogging since we've been in the US).