A new way of seeing things
Ayo’s room is undergoing a bunch of little changes. Here is the latest of them. I have had the vision for something like this since about November, but I only […]
travel
The World Until Yesterday
I first heard about best-selling author Jared Diamond and his newly released The World Until Yesterday – What we can Learn from Traditional Societies in an in-flight magazine. In the […]
Rwandan colored spectacles
Have you ever thought about how strange your life looks behind a different cultural shade of our world’s glasses? Today, my Rwandan mama friend came over for a spontaneous playdate, […]
The early years…
My first two were spent aboard the floating hospital in this 12 minute clip, which aired on 60 Minutes this past weekend. True story! That’s me pictured with my brother […]
Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens!
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. -Charles Dickens
Back into the swing of things..
This was taken through our screen window this week at some obscene hour of the morning. I can’t believe I sleep through such a magnificent light show most every morning. […]
International travel with baby
It’s hard to believe that Ayo has been on 16 flights in the last six months. I’d say that flying with him is definitely getting easier as we learn how […]
Living in the tension
Well, on Monday, we flew over to Europe again. I had to remind myself what was in our suitcases as I pictured them still having the contents of our last […]
Confessions
Tall Mountain left for Toronto yesterday afternoon. They got into the Amnesty film festival there, which is pretty cool. I heard someone recently describe Toronto as a “clean New York”. […]
Our quick trip to Brussels
We are back in France after a short trip to Brussels for the European Parliament film screening. We flew on low cost EasyJet, which is Tall Mountain’s new least favorite […]
Lovely London
We thoroughly enjoyed our time in the UK. I rediscovered my [other] passport country that I honestly hated during my four undergrad years of university. Let’s face it: I was […]
Baby jetlag
Well, as uneventful as the flight was, baby jetlag has been pretty bad for the past three nights. At 3.5 months Ayo had no issues at all adjusting eight timezones […]
A few trip photos
As stressful as it is to prepare for a trip like this with a baby, our travels couldn’t have gone better. We’re so thankful. For my two mama friends traveling […]
A bilingual playdate
Given the size of our city, I feel really fortunate that there are enough francophone and francophile families to plan French Meetup playdates. I have probably been stalking this one […]
Los Angeles at 6.5 months
We made our way to Los Angeles on Saturday. Tall Mountain had to be in the area for tonight’s screening of his newly released documentary film. We have also been […]
Our journey “home”
As terribly hard as it was to leave mamie and papi and “the most beautiful region of the most beautiful country in the world”, we had a wonderful trip home. […]
German stroller watching
Yesterday we drove 6.5 hours from the Haute Savoie region of France, through Switzerland to Heidelberg, Germany – making Germany Ayo’s fourth country to visit ex-utero. We stopped frequently for […]
A 24 hour blur
Ayo got to see the Rockies, the Statue of Liberty and Geneva’s Jet d’Eau in 24 hours. That was kind of fun. Less fun was to discover we had no […]