tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-154204 2009-11-10T20:14:32+01:00 A full time working Mama who owns her own cafe in Paris, France. Now expecting her second baby she is still putting her flare on when she finds time between changing diapers, chasing her toddler son, being a wife and friend, baking cookies, knitting and pouring cups of tea in the City of Light. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a66f7d38970b 2009-11-10T20:14:32+01:00 2009-11-10T21:15:59+01:00

I cooked a proper dish today for lunch. It's been a long time since I've done that. I bake so much at the tea house that when I get home I'm very tired and can't imagine turning the stove on to cook at home. We've been reduced down to simple meals for Julien and I....

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef01287566d20b970c 2009-11-09T16:32:27+01:00 2009-11-09T17:54:04+01:00

While setting up the camera for a self portrait I took this shot accidently triggering the shutter while trying to set up the timer. Out of all the photos I took this one was the most natural. Pregnancy has brought out the freckles on my face. I feel like age is starting to catch up...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a6637eb9970b 2009-11-08T21:51:45+01:00 2009-11-09T12:42:48+01:00

I'm in full nesting mode. I have this urgent need to knit warm things for my winter baby. Hats, booties, blankets... I am building her trousseau of baby things. Wee knits that I will treasure later on when she's out grown them and they will join those of Max and be kept as family heirlooms....

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a660d7e8970b 2009-11-07T23:13:59+01:00 2009-11-07T23:13:59+01:00

I had another photo for today but decided at the last minute tonight to change it to just this snapshot. Julien brought home a gift that one of my blog readers had brought to me today to the tea house. She is Margaret from Michigan. Thank you, Margaret! I titled this photos grateful because her...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a65d7dff970b 2009-11-06T21:03:29+01:00 2009-11-06T21:04:13+01:00

My husband always has these little tricks up his sleeve. Is it a mini pumpkin? Looks like it. It's clementine season and we have our daily dose of clementine after dinner. Good way to get some good vitamin C into Max. Tonight, Julien started cutting his clementine with a knife while Max and I peeled...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a657aa4b970b 2009-11-05T21:08:56+01:00 2009-11-05T21:10:28+01:00

You guys remember this guy, right? Here we are at Ikea. I think we've been to this place 4 times in one month. We're bad at making lists and always find that we need something else once we get home. There are several Ikeas that are not that far from our house so we can...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a652622e970b 2009-11-04T13:56:05+01:00 2009-11-04T14:30:35+01:00

34 weeks in the only pair of shoes that fit me now. Walking home from the La Poste a lone tree in the Parc de Choisy caught my attention. It reminded me of home and how the trees between Olathe and Lawrence would turn yellow, red and orange and make the hillsides look like they...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a6a5c1c1970c 2009-11-03T22:15:06+01:00 2009-11-03T22:41:11+01:00

I think cookies are the perfect dessert. They are small and you can eat a few and not feel too guilty. I always feel guilty after eating a big piece of cake or a dessert drenched in crème anglaise. Though so good I don't full enjoy because later I'm thinking I shouldn't have sopped up...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a64b72b2970b 2009-11-02T20:11:41+01:00 2009-11-02T20:11:41+01:00

Since August 3rd, I've been giving myself twice daily injections of this little drug to prevent my body from developing blood clots. Something I developed while being pregnant and something that will go away once BB is born. I wrote about it back in August when it happened. I've given myself 186 injections and still...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a69c58aa970c 2009-11-01T14:11:42+01:00 2009-11-01T15:00:34+01:00

I love stripes. I dress myself in stripes. I dress my husband in stripes. I dress my children in stripes. I recommend stripes to my friends when we go shopping. I suppose you can say that I am slightly obsessed. This is just a small portion of BB's clothes I've bought in preparation of her...

MamaFlare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c79c353ef0120a646c346970b 2009-11-01T13:25:46+01:00 2009-11-01T13:32:59+01:00

It really doesn't exist. Halloween is as my friend puts it "Good 'ole American fun" that the French really don't understand. Thought in the last few years I've seen more and more kids dressing up but have yet to have a trick or treater come to my door. I had big intentions this year to...

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