Materfamilias Writes

Amsterdam Nesting

Amsterdam Nesting

Hope you won’t mind — I’m posting this at both of my blogs this morning, so there’s the exact postover hereas well. Much as we loved Amsterdam when visiting it last month for the first…

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Amsterdam, Nests . . .

Amsterdam, Nests . . .

I’m posting the same text on both my blogs this morning as it seems to fit equally in both contexts. So it’s overhere as well . . .  Much as we loved Amsterdam when visiting…

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Borrowed Libraries . . .

Borrowed Libraries . . .

If I’d known what was awaiting me in our rental home in Bordeaux, I wouldn’t have bothered loading up my Kobo with holiday reading. Here’s a sample of the shelves, a plethora of delicious possibilities…

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Back home, in the garden . . .

Back home, in the garden . . .

Some serious weeding and trimming is needed at the home front, but the lush wildness was a welcome contrast to the ultra-urban last week of our holiday. The choisiya blooms spill rampantly into the pond by…

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A la prochaine . . . Au revoir, Paris, Hello Home

A la prochaine . . . Au revoir, Paris, Hello Home

Something over 30 hours ago, we checked the closet one last time, made sure we had our passports and ticketing info handy, then left the keys in the little bamboo basket on the tiny, triangular…

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