The end of our second apartment

We officially quit our apartment in Lyon's Villeurbanne suburb on the 23rd of December so now that part of our life is decidedly different. This week Seb is living out of a hotel, something he preferred to do rather than spend a great deal on insurance and electricity and all of the bindings of a rental. He seems happy about it even if I'm not. One bonus is that he'll be coming home more often. He's going to try and come back on Wednesday nights. He did this last night and it was really nice. We felt like a real couple again. We got to have dinner together. That never happens except on the weekend but then we're usually exhausted from working on the house and dinner is sort of thrown together by two very tired people.

I think I'd like to post a few photos as a catch up. I was USB cable-less for two weeks and couldn't upload anything. you may as well have cut off my right arm. I love taking pictures. Among these are the photos of our last days in Villeurbanne and well, loads of photos I couldn't get on my blog.

Here is Little S climbing ladders at our construction site (ie our house). He likes to help out with this sort of stuff. He loves saws and hammers. Our big fear is that he'll want to become a carpenter and not an enginner or a three star chef thus crushing our dreams!



I took these pictures in a series with the hopes of using them in our Christmas cards. When I lost my cable all those plans fell through. It was just as well. It gave me an excuse not to mail out the Christmas cards. I'm terrible at that! They were adorable pictures though.




Our town as seen from the top of the hill. Squint hard, move that *"@! tree and you'll see my house. Across the lake is Lausanne, Switzerland.


I got to see my blog friend L a lot in Lyon but now she isn't around as much and neither am I. She's definitely a kindered spirit. It's too bad we can't hang out more often. That's me in the first photo and her snuggling up with Little S in the second photo. She probably won't be happy that I've posted these but the photos made me smile because they reminded me of our afternoon so I hope she doesn't mind.



And then here's someone who almost never gets print space on my blog. A little S -Palooza is in order.