Two weeks in

As of 9 hours from now, I will have been in France for Two Whole Weeks.

This is mostly what I have been doing:
6:45 AM - Arise. Unload dishwasher. Set table. Prepare girls' breakfasts.
7:30ish - Eat.
8ish - Dress Lu and Sa for school
8:25 - Lu and Sa depart
9:30 - I take Am to la nourrice . Across town and up four flights
10-4: I nap, check facebook, walk about town, eat lunch, clean the girls' room, stop in at a cafe and read a book, etc.
4:15 - Pick up girls from school. We then buy bread for the day, and have a snack.
5:30 - We pick up Am. Again with the fourth-floor. Man. I maintain France = stairs.
(and bread)
(and dairy products)
6/6:30 - Bath time!
7 ish - set table, help get dinner ready.
8 ish - EAT
9 ish - Girls go to bed, Natalie goes to her room and gets on the computer. Then falls asleep. And wakes up and does it again.

*Except weekends and Wednesdays when the girls dont have school

This is Am. Sometimes after her sisters are at school we come up here and play:



Surprising revelations/questions include:
- Mothers of young children must have incredibly, terrifyingly strong arms
- All the clothes I have worn are now themselves clad in cracker crumb-that-was-soggy-but-is-now-dry-and-crusty stuff
- Why do French washing machines take two hours???
- One must pay attention while walking on the street, for many different reasons. Not the least of which being if Sa is not looking where is going she smacks her head on a car side mirror. And there is dog poop everywhere.
- The verb "to take" as in to take a test, is Passer. If I pass a test, it is no guarantee that I actually passed it.
- I am beginning to want to write everything in French.

A tout a l'heure, mes amis.