Bullets for speed

The best way to catch up is in a bullet post.

Everything is going well and I'm really happy living back in our old hometown. I hope we won't have to move again for a long, looooong while. The kids are happy with their school and we get lots of exercise walking them to and from school, uphill all the way. I'm keeping fit!

I've been looking for work in Switzerland and I hope I can find a good placement by next year. My goal is to get my French citizenship approved by next September. It's almost impossible to get a job in Switzerland without being an EU member, at least in the Canton where I want to work--lots of hurdles to cross. Anyway I'm at the end of my carte sejour in June so I have to do it now. Before now I've just been really lazy about it getting my papers done but it's time!

Even though I swore I wouldn't do the sales I've bought about twenty things so far. Shopaholic? Maybe, but the French sales are tempting because everything gets marked down incredibly low. I'll share some pictures. I bought some fun stuff from the usual stores, ProMod, H&M, shoes from Bocage and few pieces of jewelry from the odd shop. I swear this is the only time of the year when I don't thrift my clothes. Normally I buy everything second hand because it's so much more fun.

Charlotte has the chicken pox. She seems to be one of those kids who gets everything. She turned four in November and seems to be calming down a lot. She's still full of energy and sass but in a more constructive way.

Little S is doing really well in school. He loves his teacher. She's really good with him. He can almost read now. He's got a few friends at school but no playmates yet which is tough.

I'm happy but we're all a bit lonely here. I unfortunatey had to leave all my friends I had in Paris when we moved. I had a nice circle of ladies and we were a fun group. I created the group in fact and now they've kept things going without me. We did ladies night once a month and changed whose house we'd hold it in. Our kids were all the same age and it made life easy when you were stuck because I had about six people I could call on for help. Our husbands were all friends too and we did lots of dinner parties. I have neighbors here but everyone is really distant. I invite them sometimes and then it just sort of fizzles. I seem to remember that from living here before. It was really hard to meet people and I was often lonely talking to the walls.

That's all I have for now. I'll add more bullets in another post when I get time.