We had one set of Le Chateau guests leave this morning and another check in this evening. Ivy's sleepover group left at noon, leaving be...

Ivy is having a birthday sleepover with 5 friends (she wanted more but we had to limit it due to limited sleeping spaces!). They are stayin...

I found an antique desk and chair for the far side of the kitchen, where I had left space for my "office." The desk was 3 cm too w...

We started the morning off with the reading of her birth story and opening presents (Olympique de Lyon soccer jersey, shoes, cyanotype kit,...

Zari and I are up well past midnight working on college application stuff! (Not initial applications, but post-admission stuff). The last s...

The day started with pancakes and ended with swing dancing and rain (but not in the rain!). We slept in and woke up at various times, me fir...

I found a dresser via the online classifieds that was originally listed for 30 Euros. Then the seller said--"tell you what, I'm cl...

I started the day off with a run (sprint intervals) around the port and back. I'm glad I got out. I've just been so unmotivated late...

My parents have more visitors, although this family is staying at their own Airbnb since they are a family of 5. They arrived early in the m...

Well, that was exciting--we had an earthquake in Nice this evening! Nothing super strong (magnitude 4.1) but it's the first one I've...

I used Mint intermittently, but for the past several decades I've mostly done our family finances the old-fashioned way: Excel and/or c...

I went to Ivy's soccer game at Cavigal, which was a friendly match between the U11 and U13 girls. They had one half, then a short halft...

I only had like 4 meetings today! Haha. More rain today. Soccer games tomorrow for Inga and Ivy and Eric. Zari and Dio and I will probably...

I had 6 meetings scheduled today from 10:30 am - 10:30 pm. Phew! Definitely a record day, or close to it, for me. I got enough motivation...

I'm so tired that I can't even think of what to write. Soccer afternoon for half the family. Lots of computer-based work for me, muc...

Zari's drawing of Ivy was submitted to an art show at our public library. Zari's drawing won 1st place... AND, Tri-Kappa Choice... ...

My brain is really foggy tonight due to fasting. I'm definitely feeling it more than usual today! I had work-related errands this morni...

All of the city parks were closed today because of the wind. It wasn't extraordinarily windy. We always laugh when things close down bec...

While Eric, Ivy, and Inga had a super soccer Saturday and were gone all day until 6 pm, the other half of us had a nice lazy day. Well, lazy...

On top of all my other duties, I've been doing our taxes. It's not an easy feat because we have so many expenditures and receipts t...

yawn run shower work taxes meetings dinner socialize read write yawn

My parents have their second set of visitors. They'll be hosting guests for almost the rest of their stay! We all ate dinner together, m...

Ivy woke up feeling much better. She was so relieved because her class had a Carnaval party and people could dress up. She was a spear fishe...

We had a busy weekend and birthday. On Saturday, both girls had soccer games. Then we had a HUGE gathering at our house with 4 other famili...

Many Zoom meetings today...comme d'hab! I captured a candid camera video of Inga and Dio goofing around speaking with very bad accents....

We've made some delicious cookies yesterday and today: apricot butter cookies (like my German grandma used to make), also with another f...

Back to normal life...7 am wakeup, school, work. We had some tired children this morning! I got a lot of things checked off on my to-do li...

Everyone but Ivy had soccer games today. I went to Dio's this morning, and his team won 3-0. Inga and Zari had afternoon games. Inga...

Except for a super long line at the Mont Blanc tunnel, we had an uneventful drive home with no stops required. Lots of goofiness in the car...

We had a lovely last day of skiing. Sunny, calm, and probably the warmest day yet. The bottom slopes were like skiing on a "granita...

Well today was a bust--for me. I went to bed last night, quite tired, but then I was wide awake. Hours passed and I was so bored listening ...

We had some talk of insubordination today: "I'm tired. I want to end early. I'm bored of skiing the same things every day....

Despite being exhausted from skiing, I couldn't fall asleep until something like 2 am or later. I opted to rest in the morning and rejo...

Not much new to report. Same gorgeous, clear, calm weather, slightly below freezing at the top and slightly above at the bottom. Lots of gr...

We finished our first day of hurtling ourselves down a mountain on sticks, with great enjoyment. The apartment has no wifi, so I either have...

Our ski gear is organized into piles. Everyone has ski pants, jackets, gloves, helmets, goggles, and other accessories. We didn't have t...

We finally were able to go hiking! We chose the Crête du mont Macaron, which is a 7 km hike rated as "easy" with a total of 300 m ...

I had some returns to make at Ikea, so we made an excursion out of it, bringing Ivy and Inga and my grandparents. We took the tram and enjoy...

We've been here for 2 months and still haven't gone hiking once! It's driving me crazy. We were going to go tomorrow but rain is...

We did a huge tool reorganization, moving all of the renovating tools out of the apartment, cleaning out and organizing our small storage ar...

I woke up this morning, opened my eyes, and was hit by a wave of vertigo so strong that I thought I would throw up. I got myself downstairs...

I came down with The Plague yesterday afternoon. It hit hard and fast and I could barely move shortly after it started. I'm feeling a ...

I'm ordering new glasses online. Prices are amazing but I can only try them on virtually. This is as good as I can get, trying to ensure...

My vision has been seeming off and wearing contacts or glasses seemed worse than foregoing entirely. I finally went to an opthlamologist and...

Every day I'm working my way through little kitchen tasks. We're so close (except for the counters)! But not done and so it drives m...

After several weeks of rain and/or illness, we were finally able to have our Monday night FFFF: Freeze Family Football (and Friends!). Zari ...

Ivy had a tournament this afternoon, 4 short games. She played a bit but was still quite tired in her post-flu recovery. Inga had an aftern...

I brought Ivy to a family doctor after school (yes, she was finally feeling well enough to go! No more fever!). Based on her symptoms, Ivy h...

Ivy is STILL sick! She was looking a bit better in the morning, so we thought she might be able to go to school in the afternoon. However, b...

Big day today--our cabinet doors and drawer fronts arrived! To be precise, the 2nd order arrived. The first order had the green ones that w...

Ivy has been super sick the past 3 days: high fever, super achey body, a bit of a cough. She had to miss school today and I'm not optimi...

Ivy is sick with a fever, so she had to miss her soccer game today. Eric is the coach, so he still went. Her team lost 3-2; they were also d...

Picture from 2 days ago...we're missing two under-cabinet LEDs but otherwise the cabinet lighting is all done. We poured some self-level...

Between breech meetings and video analysis/editing and publication editing, we managed to put up the upper cabinets! I also have several set...

I wasn't super hungry in the morning so I decided to keep fasting a bit longer until lunch. And then I enjoyed leftover chicken & be...

I was feeling a bit off this morning, so I thought I'd stay home and take it easy. But then I saw the kitchen walls just crying out to b...

My sister made me all sorts of glass art, mostly in the form of little dishes. But 3 pieces were purely decorative, and I am so in love with...

We went to The Place Where Hopes & Dreams Go To Die (aka the Préfecture) and...amazingly...they didn't die this time! We received ou...

I tested about 2/3 of the outlets and switches I had wired, and everything worked! I love that feeling. I joked, "I am so skilled. I ca...

We discovered that baby Inga, in her "Dude, where's my neck?" stage, is Baron Harkonnen's doppelganger. Renovation news:...

Major upheaval in the Freeze household...our living room is almost taken over entirely by the dining table and there is stuff everywhere and...