Carnaval

Aujourd'hui, c'était le carnaval à l'école.
Today, it was carnaval in School.





Look at the little tail! Regardez la petite queue!

Mes folies du mois de janvier / January Shopping spree

Eh oui j'ai fait des folies...Jugez par vous-mêmes:

Pour moi :

Une polaire avec strass pas besoin de bijoux pour aller skier! For me a fleece with little fake diamonds...no need to wear jewlery to go sking! HA!


















Pour / For Bhavishya:

A beige and a brown belt / Une ceinture beige et une ceinture maron réglable

Pour l'été / for the summer:

I think with (white) Jeans she will look Lovely!

The Davos Questions Part IV

The University Student / Graduate:



I think he's one of the better "Non professional". He's outspoken. It is clear he thought about it carefully. We talked about his idea the other night and I came to realising that one doesn't need to pay people nor motivate them.

As Mark rightly said: "...he is talking about distributed thinking. In other words, if you post the problem and the data you have on the web (video or blog). People will propose solutions. They just do. Effectively, you have outsourced your reasearch capacity"... "One just asks and it works".

I find his idea very interesting. Surely it won't give food to starving orphans.

Anyhow, whilst talking to Mark about it, he handed me this book:

I started reading it, and they talk about this very subject. So far quite convincingly, I must admit.

The Davos Question Part III

You have Indian school girls sharing their perspectives on the effects of globalization in India:




Do they have internet access? If so where? In School? I was just wondering how they found out about THE Davos Question? Did they write the script all by themselves, with their teachers's help?

I think they did a marvelous job at presenting it.

The Davos Question Part II

So to go back to the subject of the Davos Question, if you do a search on YouTube by typing "The Davos Question" you get a plethora of videos relating to it. I will start posting a few that drew my attention

Here, you have kids that have an opinion (cute & fresh).

I guess the point of the parents is that the world needs more cute little girls for them to grow into nice and responsible people.

A special thought...une pensée spéciale pour...

MOUSHETTE et sa famille qui se sont fait cambriolé hier.

Nos pensées et nos prières vous accompagnes pendant ces moments difficiles.

MOUSHETTE and her family who was burgled yesterday.

Our thoughts and prays are with you all.

Photo by photofixation

Very interesting Radio show regarding International Adoption II

I missed last week's radio show and I was very dissapointed to find out it was a very interesting topic indeed:

"The Ups and Downs of Adopting a Toddler"

Drew Davenport interviewed Mary Hopkins-Best, author of Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft

I was thrilled to be able to listen to the show only tonight. In Short they talked about how certain parents make a concious decision to adopt a toddler and how others "accidentally" become parents of toddlers for reasons such as delays in paperwork or in our case... waiting for the licence of the orphanage to be re-issued by CARA (Central Adoption Resource Agency)... and numerous holidays. They discussed the differences between toddler and infant adoption, how toddlers grieve etc.

Also they give (useful) transition tips!?!

To listen to this program, please click here and then on the right hand box click on the little arrow where it says: "Blog talk radio".

Very interesting Radio show regarding International Adoption I

Tomorrow, Wednesday January 30, there will be an interview of Dr Jane Aronson, renowned International Adoption Doctor on this radio station.

The topic is: The health, development and transition issues of internationally adopted kids.

Should you have any questions you want to ask Dr Aronson, you can email them directly to Dawn at: dawn@findingyourchild.com.

N.B Dr Aronson will also be adressing the specific concerns when adopting tolddlers and pre-schoolers .

We have a champion in the family!

Bhavishya

...Hier soir après notre rituel je quitte sa chambre et je lui dit:

"Bonne nuit mon Bébé d'Amour"

et j'entends une petite voie d'ange me dire:

"Bonne nuit ma maman bébé d'Amour"

...Last night after our evening ritual I leave her room and tell her:

"Good night my Baby Love"

to which I hear a little angelic voice saying:

"Good night my Mummy Baby Love

Joyeux Anniversaire Sagar

Nous te souhaitons une magnifique journée!

Nous t'embrassons affectueusement,

MarSaBaPa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE!

Sorry Edward, I prepared this post and for some reason it never got published!

We hope you'll have a real fun day!

We love you and miss you lots,

MarSaBaPa

Pour vous les Mimis

Voilà...pour vous les Mimis
Moushette la tienne a déjà brûlée tout à l'heure à 13h00 mais je n'avais pas pris de photo. Sorry!

Bhavishya's room / La chambre de Bhavishya

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A partir de 14h00 je déclare officiellement la chambre de Bhavishya comme
ZONE SINISTREE!!!
A vous de juger!

As of 2:00 PM I officially declare Bhavishya's room as
DISASTER AREA!!!

The Davos Questions Part I

A VERY POWERFUL IDEA, I BELIEVE...

You've got mail

The invitation to your best friend, Camille's birthday party

Smelly Cat or shall I say Smelly dog! III

Me in the shower? You must be kidding!?

Moi dans la douche? Tu te fiches de moi!?

Treats...les récompenses

Why the bath and not the pond?

Pourquoi la beignoire et pas la marre?

I feel pretty...

Joyeux Anniversaire Louis

A l'occasion de tes 5 ans,



Nous te souhaitons un très joyeux anniversaire mon Trésor.

Nous t'embrassons fort et nous nous réjouissons de te revoir très bientôt,

Maraine, Mark, Bhavishya et Pashmina

Smelly Cat or shall I say Smelly dog! II

• Clean dog = checked
• Disaster area in bath room = Checked
• Soaked Sas = Checked

Total calories burned this morning = 5000 minimum

Hey and I thought it would be stupid to say go on a diet for a New Year Resolution! LOL!

More later (i.e. pictures)

• Chien propre = coché
• Zone sinistrée dans salle de bain = coché
• Sas trempée = Coché

Nombre total de calories brulées = 5000 minimum

Et moi qui croyais que cela serait stupide de faire un régime comme résolutions pour 2008! Mdr!

Smelly Cat or shall I say Smelly dog!

Well smelly is a small word. Pashmina, our darling dog STINKS!

Pashmina ne sent pas mauvais...notre adorable chien PUE!

Luna & Pashmina

It started last week when we went on this walk with my best friend Dolly and Pashmina's best friend Luna on a walk. Both doggies did not miss one puddle on the walk, then she found some lovely manure in which she rolled herself in. At the end of the walk I threw some stones into the village fountain so she would jump in it and get sort of cleaned. Then the following day she thought she would go for another beauty treatment and rolled herself in horse dug (our neighbours have horses) TRULY DELICIOUS…YUMMY! Also at the bottom of our garden we have a stream...she regularly goes for a mud bath...As Dolly rightly says we, humans, spend a fortune in expensive spas...yet we could get some free ones right at the bottom of our house! HA. She also went swimming in the pond in the forest nearby last week-end.

L'odeur s'est lentement installée depuis la semaine dernière, depuis que j'ai été me promener avec Dolly et la meilleure amie de Pashmina, Luna. Les 2 chiens n'ont pas loupé une flaque d'eau, puis elle a trouvé du délicieux purin et elle s'est roulée dedans. A la fin de la balade j'ai lancé des pierres dans la fontaine afin que Pash puisse sauter dedans et se rincer. Le lendemain elle a eu la magnifique idée d'aller pour un autre soin corporelle, non pas chez l'esthéticienne ni chez la toiletteuse mais dans la prairie à côté de chez nous et s'est roulée dans du crottin de cheval (nos voisins ont des chevaux!) UN VERITABLE DELICE! En bas du jardin nous avons un ruisseau et là aussi elle prend des bains de boue...Dolly le dit si bien que nous les humains dépensons une véritable fortune en institut pour se genre de traitement...ce serait gratuit au fond du jardin! HA! Bref, Pash est aussi allée nager dans la mare de la foret voisine.

Now I cannot bath her in the bathroom, believe me, then I would spend the whole day cleaning the bathroom from top to bottom, outside we switched the water off for obvious reason...what do I do???

Je ne peux pas la laver dans la douche, sinon croyez-moi cela prendra le reste de la journée pour nettoyer la salle de bain à fond, nous avons fermé toutes les robinetteries dans le jardin (les aléas des hivers luxembourgeois…je fais quoi???

We never took her to the grooming salon, so if I do now she will freak out!

Jamais nous l'avons amener chez une toiletteuse...si je le faisais maintenant elle péterait un plomb!

At this rate we will a suffocate...and since she sleeps in our room I will probably confront DH and say: "Either she goes or I go", it never crossed my mind that one day I would say such a thing! LoL

A ce rythme nous suffoquerons...et puisqu'elle dort dans notre chambre je confronterais mon Chéri en lui disant: "C'est soit elle qui part, soit moi". Cela ne m'a jamais éfleuré l'esprit qu'un jour, je puisse dire cela! Mdr!