Holiday postcards

I had forgotten the magic of Bretagne. I breathed it again and again, and I feel it still running in my veins !
(happy sigh)**~~*^* *


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As for the works, just for memory, there was no window in this room, it was just a room covered with ugly green plaster... The view is fantastic from here, and in front of that window there will be the guests' bedroom! ;-)
This time we've worked on the corner, stairs and walls upstairs.

What a feeling....!

Who will give the right meaning to the dream I've had during a nap yesterday?

Okies, here is how it went:
Martin put our names to follow some physical training (but fun: taekwondo mixed with aerobics, lol) in a ...police station.
On the day we come, the training has changed into a dance contest (Flashdance type, hehe), still based on taekwondo + aerobics.
I was so stressed I could have peed in my pants (thank gawd for me bed, I did not! lol).

I don't know who won, and too bad the brain cannot take digit pics, it would have been fookin fun to show you!

Candles GreenFingers

Yuss, dat's me!

We're just back, we've worked hard on the house (renovated 2 *old stones* walls, prepared another one for next time), we've worked hard in the garden (planting trees and flowers! yessssss!!!! wunnnnerful!), played with snails, ate lots of chocolate, drunk lots of very decadent *planteurs* (oh yummmmm)... and we'll be back there in 2 weeks for 3 days.

I hope my flowers are doing ok, I worry for them, will they have enough water and sun? Awwww, they're so small and fragile!

Okies, I hope you're all doing fineroo, I'll be back in a lil while with holidays' *postcards* to share with ewws

Mwaaaaaaaaa

Running with Loup on one arm

...luggage in the other!

Have fun for Easter, and pulease don't be reasonnable with chocolate... even if the price to pay for it is not fun :P

Okies, I'm on my way to go there:



(well I swear we have palm trees in Bretagne!)
(swearing again)
(spitting)

:P

T, U, V, W-ords :)

Directly from Penny:

Accent: When I speak English, or tell a few German or Spanish words, why is it that people know I'm French!

Booze of Choice: champagne on top top of the list, followed by rum. Oh sometimes I do enjoy water!

Chores I Hate: ironing

Dog or Cat: purring

Essential Electronics: Gulliver

Favorite Perfume: Flower by Kenzo

Gold or Silver: silver, but gold suits me beder

Hometown: Paris

Insomnia: I could sleep all night long, but, that never happen

Jeans: flare jeans only, flowers in the hair, pink floyd in my head

Kids: raising them is the most demanding job, the most rewarding too

Losing control: thinking of lasagna :P

Most Admired Trait: I enjoy people having a good sense of humour

Overnight Hospital Stays: just when I've had my babies

Phobia(s): sharks and cars when I'm behind the wheel

Quote: Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels
(Faith Whittlesey)

Religion: without religious ones

Siblings: gweno, marie, jeremy :)

Time(s) I Wake Up: been 2 weeks I wake up at 6.00 am

Unusual Talent/Skill: I could get awards at multitaskin

Veggies I Refuse to Eat: every veggies that stink (except sprouts, yumm)

Worst Habit: enjoying Y&R but shhhh

Yummiest Food I Make: curry mussels

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


Penny, I modified the L letter... I did not get it really! lol

Which chocolate...

...will you really enjoy for Easter?
I like white and pink, and I don't care if there's less cacao in these chocolates than blond roots on my head! ;-)

The week's gonna be short. On Friday we leave for a week in Bretagne. Real hard work to come in the hobbit house...(lil sigh)

But many pleasures too. There has to be some kind of balance, huh ;-)

And what are your plans for Easter?

Roman-photo

Loup has just started a couple of days ago to eat *real* food!
Yessss!!!
And even if he still worships his milk, he loves it, of course!... More than words, images will tell you everything ;-)













And if that could help him to sleep beDer... yesterday he woke up about every hour!

I've heard some wanted more quizzes here...

And not just *girlie* quizzes, right JL?

Your Future! by sum41prin
Name or LJ username:
Home:
Location:	Anchorage, Alaska
Job:	salmon breeder
How much you'll make per year:	$2,513
Vehicle:
Quiz created with MemeGenshitty HTML repaired by Martin

I guess I will enjoy my future house and will have fun with my saussage car, but when it comes to my futur job... yuck!

Edit: Thank you Martin for your help with that fookin code! ermm... I have another quizz, same shitty code, to come... wanna a beer and a lil something?

A Candles' blog without a quizz

...would be like a pint full of limonade! There would be something really wrong in there :P

Okies, let's play now!

Your perfect outfit

Your perfect Outfit! by lillilac94
Name?
Fav Color?
Shirt:
Pants/Skirt:
Shoes:
Quiz created with MemeGen Shitty HTML repaired by Martin ;-P

...lol why did they ask about the favourite colour, I wonder!
Put jeans instead of that bloody mini skirt (but really, it's the kind of stuff you CAN'T wear when you have lil kids!), and that's fine!
Love the t-shirt naturally :P

The specialities *circle* (part 2)

I've got my parcel! I've got my parcel! (jumping around)



(just to remind you, I took part in of one of some internet *circles*: the aim here was to send to another mama specialities from where you live)
*My* mama comes from the French Poitou region, and she sent goodies for Lola and Loup + sweet culinary specialities for us! Yummmmmm! Not good for my lil post-birth diet, but just purrfect for my delicate stomach :P !

As the photos below can show it, we enjoyed the "broyé", a huge biscuit that you must break only with the hands before sharing it (amen ;-)



As for the parcel I made for another mama, it was hard to find stuff from Paris really! And I had not much time so finally... I chose 13 sorts of honey (lil pots) and sweets from Northen Africa (very Parisian, lol)

A mood in paper and glue

Originally I made that for Romuald's Mot-Zaïc (but I'm not sure you got it, Romuald, my email kept being returned to me!)
It was fun to do, just followed what the French word *humeur* (=mood) inspired me.



And if you want to participe to Romuald's mosaique of words, you really should! ... it makes your imagination work and yeah, the idea of creating a mosaique of words is simply brilliant :)

edit: done, my *humeur* is now part of Romuald's Mot-Zaïc! (dancing around the totem!)

How long will I sleep...

tonight?

4 hours? 5? 6! you're kidding!

I've reached a point in zombie-land that you can hardly imagine!
I feel so tired that I've turned a bit euphoric. Could be worse...

So I'm not far, fookin tired but absobloodilutely ok :P

April Fool's day mood

(will you find below the one thing that is definatly not true? ... the winner will get a goodie from me :P)

On April Fool day, I feel:
tired
because Loup has decided it's kewl to wake up at 6.00 am about everyday
mad
because my 3 next books might not be published
stoopid
because I've been asked by a painter to pose for him, thought the man was just telling anything to make contact. LOL. His paintings are shown in France, UK and Italy!
happy
I can feel the sun behind the clouds
relieved
I've finally lost 10 kilos! Yessss!!!
surprised
I realize I don't like saxophone
curious
I'm off to spend 2 hours surfing on your bloggies and in forums, me lazy bum


goodie from the Fake!

First dance

And here's a new (not so) small watercolour painting, I'm back into colourful backgrounds, must be the Spring-ish mood ;-)


First Dance

What a wunnerful surprise

(discovering the new David Gilmour's album, that is!)

On an island is trully beauDiful, so Pink Floyd-ish, so Gilmour-ish, so puurfect to relax and fly above!

Our fingers' eater ...

...is 5 months-old now :-)
Still growing well, heavy to carry (68cm for 9kgs), with 2 vampire teef almost out (poor babe, it seems really painful!)
He plays a lot, almost stands straight when sitting, *talks* a lot, laughs to tears when dancing with Lola and he also starts eating smashed fruits and vegetables (it's been 2 months now he's been watching with apparent huge hunger and jalousy the forks and spoons we use when having a meal! I think having now a right over the spoon is Heaven for him!)

About the nights? Irregular, he always wakes up at 3.00 or 4.00, without needing each time a bottle. In the morning, he won't stay in bed beyond 6.30 (arggggg....)

We've now all recovered from the first months (it was about time!), I can say I'm doing really well again! Yeahhhhhhh!!!!

Claude, François, Mick, Annie et Dagobert

Back in 1978, do you remember this one?



Where ever there's adventure to be found
Just a clue or a secret message
bring the Famous Five around.
When ever there's a mystery to be solved
up in the ruined castle
or down in Smugglers Cove.

We are the Famous Five
Julian, Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Dog.
We are the Famous Five
We're coming back to you
Whenever there's time
Time after time

Wanna listen to The Famous Five? You will remember then! ;-)

I LUVED it and would love to watch it again sometimes... like about dozens of other series from the late 1970s! Do you remember a favorite series from your childhood?

PS: the French name dagobert was much much beder for the dawg me thinks!

Nursing bras... to be improved!

Reading Jenny's bloggie (ya should see the pics of her boy! Adorable!) the other day reminded me how happy I've felt when I stopped breast-feeding Loup a couple of months ago!
Oh mind you, I LOVED it and miss it, but I was so HAPPY to get rid of these bloody nursing bras! I made an overdose of them. Oh they're practical, and there's a market, you get some choice, but tsssss they're really ugly! No way you can feel sexy with dem (what, a young mama can't feel sexy? and why not!)... and having to wear them night and day, not fun, really!

Show me where's the revolution, I have bras to burn here :P

Here are a few exemple (ok, the ugliest kind! But the *cuttest* are not very different from these! lol)



but okies, in the Anti-Glamour field, there is worse, MUCH worse....
The pictures speak for themselves, doesn't they?



and

When the mirror does not speak...

... my bloggie makes the job!
Here's the lil questionary Mel' has sent me.

Who am I?
not a Blond with heavy boobs!

How old people tell I am?
I really have no idea (what would you say????). I'd give myself about 25 (lol)

Who knows me really well?
definatly my other-half, and those who know me let's say "pretty" well... Penny, Marine and Esox I think :-)

The most important *thing* in my life?
my lil family

I always wear
my 4 rings, my piercing and 8 ear-rings (yusss, I'm a heavy girl)

I always do
listen with much pleasure to my friends' lil secrets :P (lol)
try to make people comfortable (to reach point #1 of course ;-)

I am the happiest
when I've finished a painting, when it's Friday evening, when I laugh with friends, when Lola asks for a cuddle, when Loup gives me a *snail kiss*, when Martin and I are together! Yesss!

On Monday morning, I am...
bloody tired!

My eyes are
certainly devilish (or are they just fragile? -shruggs-): they get red quickly

The object I prefer
my boots, my puter, a full champ' glass, my massage creams, our dining-table when there's 10 candles on it

Martin, Jack, your turn! And no excuse... (s)

The yummy specialities *circle*

I guess you've heard about the web concept that consists in sending a book to an unknown person and receive one the same way.

In one of the forums in which I actively participate, the idea is this time to send a lil package with some food specialities of the region where you come from.

I have the adress of the person who will receive it, I only know she's a mama.
My package is almost ready, with mainly sugary stuff in it (fighting against meself to not open any of the goodies I've prepared!)... I'll tell more about it when the woman will have it (just in case she visits my bloggie ;-)

And I can't wait either for MY package! I'm ready to try anything yummy!
LOL

We should do something like that someday with our circle of blog'users/visitors. Don't you find the concept is a groovy idea?!

Big boy

Yup, we've welcome another big boy at home!

We had ordered the high-tech canon 350D 4 months ago, looking for the cheapest prices for every part of it. We got pretty quickly the (HUGE) lenses, but only got the camera a couple of days ago.
Well, we got it for 50% of the usual price which deserved some patience from us!

I've seen there were books published about how to use this camera... which scares me a bit! lol
I think I'll let Martin tame the beast, then I'll ask him about the basics about it (s)
By the way, Martin thinks about changing his blog into a photo blog. Kewl idea!

A lil victory and a lovely pic

Finally, Lola has asked to stop wearing nappies during night!
YESSSS!
And it's her final word (phewwww!)

Ok, it's a bit late but we wanted her to take the decision, since forcing her had not been a very good idea...

Well done, my independent shrimpette!

Who's got a hangover after St Patrick's day?

Not the Irish, not the Scots, nor the Frawnch :P

My two favourite moments of the day..

..are when I share laughs and cuddles with my devils, and when these devils finally jump into bed ;-)



The week has been fantastic with Martin's parents around! I had real free time and that felt wunnerfully strange :-)
So I can tell I'm relaxed now, though (same ol' song I warn you) really tired. Naturally because Loup keeps asking for milk at 2.00 or 4.00 am, but mainly because Lola's been coughing so much that sometimes I did not manage to sleep more than 4 hours.
I want a night of peaceful sleep!
And I'm glad to take the pill again, I don't want such short nights for my next 3 lifes at least! lol

The sun, a wunnerful pretext

Because yesss Paris is being very sunny since a couple of days!
It feels oh jeeezzzz so guuuuuuuud
I had forgotten its sweet warmth on the skin
(happy sigh)

Well, that being said, hehe... this bloggie is no more than an excuse, a pretext to add this photo of a Spring-ish Marilyn! I love it!

Emballage

Flowers look so much beder when coming from the lil posh shop than from the supamarket...
Wine taste so wunnerful in this beauDiful crystal glass, much beder than in the big water glass!
Oh and coffee feels unique in this lil cup with a terrific design, much more than in this brown plastic glass
Now books with hard, refined cover keep much more my attention than those with a kitsh paperback cover...
And yes, I feel more glamour when wearing expensive undies than wearing the supamarket's ones

oh and you will agree on this one...

A woman is more beaudiful in a sexy lil dress than in ugly sports clothes!**

Soooooo?
I admit, I confess, I reckon, and I accept that
I AM superficial!
eeeeeeck
And I bet I'm not the only one (S)



...I'd happily conclude introducing you a gossip-ish website (I've got the link via Michelle! Yayyyyyyyy!), and don't tell me you've not scrolled down to get more gossips once there!

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** this does not work for men, a gardener is sexy dressed as a gardener, a plumber as a plumber, a fireman as a fireman! LOL

mais i' sont où ?...

mais i' sont où ? ...tralalalala la

Sowwwy, a lil pleasure... rugger today... oh brilliant!
...and these trained thighs all around...
No rilly..
(faint)

My Nirvana

...is for me: free time

And I'll reach a Nirvana next week, yup.

Martin's parents join us for 7 days, and this is f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c.
....because of course I'm over happy to see them, but also because the kids will love it too!

okok, here are my plans
-this rendez-vous in the beauDy center with my mama
-a cinema with Lola
-a birthday at some Lola's friend (well, that does not sound supa cool BUT when you only have ONE kid with you, it's already Heaven)
-3 restaurants (Sowwy ya Mr Diet), one with Martin, one with Lola and Martin at Martin's work, and one with Michelle, my guuud American friend.
-lots of time to paint

I can't wait for the restaurants part. I never have the opportunity to go there without the kids!
One with Martin is like Heaven!
One with a goilfriend is also wunnerful, I think it's been a few years (NO KIDDIN) since I have been to a restaurant with a goilfriend like that. SCARY!

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

(The Beat that My Heart Skipped)

The 8 Cesars French movie got excellent critics all around. I did not find the topic exciting at all, but so many good critics in the papers and well... 8 cesars...! I thought we'd get a wonderful surprise.

French cinema can be so boring sometimes. We could not watch it till the end (time's too precious!).
The only cesar that should have been justified was for the main actor. But he did not get it, lol.

We'll spend beder moments with the Oscars' movies this year, no doubt ;-)

Say "ouistiti" !

My *grunge lil princess* (watta style, huh!) has just had her first school photo yesterday!
Yeahhhh



So we all spent the evening playing at the "school photo". The shrimpette painted our faces with make-up and we had to pause for 30 minutes for Lola the photographer.
We had no right to poke our tongue out, to laugh, talk or make noise.

LIFE IS NOT FUN AT SCHOOL!

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PS: Pauline, Arnaud, z'avez vu comme la puce adore la robe? Si elle pouvait la porter 24h/24, sûr qu'elle le ferait. Incredible! What a good choice!

International Women's Day

I feel concerned though my life as a woman is perfect.
Thank you, you men and women who fought for our rights, you've made of our life here a priviledged (?) one. No, a normal one! Which is even more important.

I hope somehow I'll manage to help the same way other women to have a normal life too.

When Paris is NOT cheap

After 4 months, I've just finished spending time and money at my dentist-the-butcher. I've spent there more than 2000 euros...!
700 euros for a crown!

Then I've realized everyday life was really expensive around.
For Lola and Loup's doc, I spend 55 euros each time...
Worse, for my bits (gyno), I spend 65 euros for a rendez-vous!

Thank gawd, complementary insurance exists!

Even bread is expensive now, almost 1 euro for a baguette!

SIGH

A contre-courant

I've watched something on tv the other day where they said that people gave less and less importance to dining-rooms. And companies selling furniture had started to adapt themselves to the situation.
(lol, yeah I know, I'm about to jump into a very exciting topic ;-)

People tend to have their meals on their sofa in a few minutes only. Preferably in front of tv.
Sometimes by choice, sometimes because of lack of space... As it's been the case for us..

We've desperatly tried to find a way to get a real table for meals. Our flat is really small and every corner occupied with a fireplace or a door. That was impossible to put a table without blocking the way.

Till we found that the ONLY answer to our lil probbie was a 80cm diameter round table! A Bigger one wouldn't fit, a smaller one wouldn't be ok for more than 2 people.

But average tables are bigger than that!

We've been looking for it since months now. And finally we found it! A garden table!

You can't, no, you can't imagine the pleasure it's been today to have a normal meal on a table.
Terrific
Much more decadent than a meal on a sofa.

Simple pleasures are definatly the best ones ;-)

2nd step towards... Womanhood!

Well, I'm still dealing with the first step (loosing the kilos I took while breastfeeding my lil wolf), second step is taking care of my bits!
(dancing around)

I've decided to take my mom to a beauDy institute in a couple of weeks! It will be a very first time for both of us :-)
She's been very stressed lately, and I've been so tired, soooo... it's the *right* moment.
I've ordered a full massage and manucure and make-up -with advice- (the tips, etc) for both of us!

Wooohooooooooooooooooo!!!

Can you believe (please take a chair, I would hate that you hurt your delicate bum), how long it takes for a manucure?
... 1.30 hour!
(faint)
Enough time to get bored to death!
...but I'll survive, yusss yussss ;-)

And the winners are...

...well I am not sure, my quest is not over... but so far my heart's beating fast for (sowwwy I'm not being original at all) Mozart, and some pieces of Tchaikovski and Prokofiev.
For Mozart, what can I say; he's an Everest. I still can't believe my ears...!

And so far, I can tell my heart's not beating much for Schubert and Chopin.

Strange how music can be *felt* so differently by people!

To be continued!

My dodudAmour

4 months and a week for 8,3 kilos
Well that doesn't tell much to anyone who doesn't have a baby of about that age, but that's a pretty heavy weight!
Thanx Gawd he also gets taller! lol



You could think he's geatting ready to face a hard winter, but nenene! Spring's in a month! Ouch! ;-)

Deliberatly unsynchronized

That's about I'd described my lil devils at the moment.
When one sleeps, the other never does
When one wanna play, the other one wants all your attention
When it's time to give a bath to one, it's time to eat for the other
When we decide to go out for a frozen walk, the other one only ask for your arms and warmth
When I have no choice but to pay attention to one only for a few minutes, the other one won't have any more patience and will start doing all what a devil can possibly do (amazing how much imagination they get in that *field*!)

Oh but I'm a baaaaaad mouff!
They CAN get synchronized!!!... when it comes to scream and cry
...or when it's 4.00am, one is hungry and the other decides she has slept enough!

How many more kids did I want again?

hehe

I'm not too tired, despite what my zombie face can tell. But really I start to find it hard to get 20 minutes in a row for meself. Almost impossible (like, it took me 3 days to write 10 words in here!).

Now, when I give the last bottle of milk to Loup in the evening, it feels so so SOOOOO *guuuud* to know a few minutes later I'll enjoy a glass of wine and start to relax... a pleasure close to a lil orgasm, no kiddin!