Swim Eval, Great Wines

This Friday was evaluation day at the swimming course. The kids hopefully did well. Here you can see Sabrina converse with Ben, and Mathieu having a conversation with Kate.

Here are two wines I absolutely like for their taste. A bit pricey, the Cab is $40 and the Pinot $60, but their taste is just out of this world...

Three 3-cheers ceremonies, three 3-cheers; Art

Sabrina just got her third 3-cheers in as many ceremonies. At the end of the month, the entire school is reunited in the gym and one or two students of each class is presented with a reward called 3-cheers in front of everyone for special accomplishments. Sabrina just got her third three cheers. Very proud.

First it was French, then English, now it's math. Way to go love. We're so proud of you.

The kids have become very artistic these days. Here is Sabrina's work...

Mathieu is into zombies...

And here's a two-mast radio control great ship...

Nice Sunday Dinner

Max came to have dinner with us tonight. It was really nice to have the family complete again. When we got into the house, Mathieu yelled his name and went to give him the biggest hug. Really nice.

Sabrina started reading "The Hobbit" tonight. She's really liking the book. She started giggling at one point, when the dwarves come to visit Bilbo, uninvited. It is a really cool book.

Quelle belle journée; Joe Dassin

Nous avons meme eu la chance de prendre une bonne marche. Voici quelques photos.

Fait intéressant: Nous écoutons présentement Joe Dassin au souper. Saviez vous que Joe Dassin était Juif américain, né a New York?

Kids... 90% Love, 10% War

Look what Mathieu did to his sister...

Paper Planes; Play date

Mathieu is into making his own paper airplanes, complete with drawings. When Suzanne asked, he told her he had initiated it himself and had not learned it in kindergarten or in daycare (they go to daycare for an hour on Thursdays and Fridays, at their request). Real cool.

Long time friends came to play over today to give the grand parents a small break. These kids have known each other ever since they were born and the chemistry between them is just beautiful. It's really great to have them over.

Fun Saturday with a tint of grey...

My 27" iMac I've had since December 2009 had a recall because of a hard drive failure possibility and I brought it to the Apple store for repair. Say what you may about Apple, the fact that they send me an email to tell me they need to change the drive on my three year old Mac (for free). I will miss my machine for the next few days though.

Today was a slow day, a perfect one for us to play board games. Suzanne and Sabrina played Mystery Mansion while I played Battleship with Mathieu while I cooked supper. We had a great time.

Sabrina and Suzanne are rediscovering some very old board games.

Clean House

It's so pleasant when the house is clean... I like to work with my portable on the counter and when we're all here it's hard to be zen. But during the day when the kids are out school and Sue's out work...