Materfamilias Writes

Wishing you a Merry Christmas (with a little help from some Paris light). . .

Wishing you a Merry Christmas (with a little help from some Paris light). . .

 A few years ago, as I posted much earlier, we were pointed to St. Pierre church in Montmartre by a lovely woman dining right next to us in a tiny Paris restaurant. One of the oldest…

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Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

We have been plunged so completely and wonderfully and satisfyingly and exhaustingly back into family life in our new home that I’ve scarcely had a moment to think about my ten weeks away. Yet as…

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Home, Sweet Cold and Snowy Home. . .

Home, Sweet Cold and Snowy Home. . .

 Jetlag still has its cruel hooks in me — at least, I feel fine except that I haven’t yet slept more than three hours at a time since Friday night. Our travel home was uneventful,…

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Bayonne from Paris (via Bordeaux)

Bayonne from Paris (via Bordeaux)

Again, thanks for the wonderful, encouraging, supportive comments in response to my last two posts. I intend to answer each one individually, but Pater and I are savouring our last precious days in Paris now,…

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A Little Self-Care, A Little Guilt. . . a New Dress. . .

A Little Self-Care, A Little Guilt. . . a New Dress. . .

 Thank you so very much for your spirit-lifting, heart-warming, sorrow-and-joy-validating comments on my post yesterday.  Both collectively and individually, they seem to me a model of empathy as distinct from and preferable (for me, at…

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