Qui est-ce? Contest

The first person to send us an email with the name of the woman in the picture below, taken on January 18, will receive a special prize* mailed from France!

* family members are not eligible : )

Did you want duck liver on that?

Only at participating restaurants . . .

This add showed up all over town just after New Year's.  The tag line at the bottom says, "Good resolutions can wait."

Sunday School "en France" . . .

Violet brought this back from Sunday School this week:

In case the print is too small . . .

"Je n'ai peur de rien, Seigneur, car tu es avec moi."  Psaume 23:4

I am not afraid of anything, Lord, for you are with me.  Psalm 23:4

Un Coin de Paradis

Meant to post this earlier.  We saw this video on New Year's Eve at our church's get-together. Matt Marvane is a French Christian artist who has an album coming out later this year.  Enjoy.

And the Award to our first visitor in Chambéry goes to . . .

Playground Pics

At the playground after the girls' first day of school.

First Day of School

OK, Jasmin's first day of school was actually on December 13, but Christmas Break is over now, so Monday, January 7 was Back-to-School (in the dark) for her.

The students all congregate in the school yard to wait for the "opening bell" to ring before they go inside to class . . .

Here's what her school looks like in the daylight:

By the time we left to bring Isabel and Violet for their actual first-ever, outside-the-home day of school, the sun was up!

Parents of elementary-age children wait at the school gate to retrieve them for their lunch break:

First Sunrise of 2013 -- Chambéry, France

Happy New Year!  I took this photo from our bedroom window this morning just after sunrise.

I had to lean out the window to take this one . . . don't try this at home!