Celebrate!

Hi!!!!!!! It's almost Noa's B-day, and we have a lot to d0! For her party, we are going to do a rockstar theme. Everyone is assigned a rockstar, and they come looking like him/her to the party. We're having an ice cream sundae bar, and pizza. Noa got first pick for rockstar, so say hello to Taylor Swift! We picked all the guests next. I got to pick last, Katy Perry! We decided Dad was going to be security, and Mom paparazzi. Wow, so much is going on... Thursday Alan and Molly are coming, which means I might be in Noa's bunk for a while..... It hasn't been that long since I last posted, so I'm going to be saying random things, like.... OMG the new Kane Chronicles is coming out May 3. Yesterday, me and Dad went to Champagne, and I tasted my first ever champagne! The verdict? Bitter, grape-y, not very pleasing. We're almost at 100 days of school, on April 5th we will have.... well, we'll have had 100 days of school. Not much else is going on. Wish me luck, let's hope I survive 100 days of school..... (photos: Noa's 100 day objects and me tasting champagne in Reims)

Lili(an) Belle in PARIS!

Home.....

I was just looking back on ALL the blogs, every single one, and I realized we have been in Paris for SO LONG. I was looking back, and one of the entrees said; In 3 days, we are moving from CT to Paris for a full year. Now, that year is almost up, I realize... there is practically NOTHING I'm going to miss! Sure, my creative writing class, but we do things in school, and I can always sign up for another one! Same with hip-hop. School... well let's just say GOOD RIDDANCE! I'm NOT going to miss Mme Panzani, maybe a little bit, like when she brought us crackers, but she is kinda scary. OK, so a little more than kinda. OK, so she's really scary when she's mad. But, honestly she hasn't given my friend Paulina detention yet, which is a MIRACLE! Another of my blogs said; So far school is OK, I like my french teacher... HA I know better by now. Wow.... I'm also realizing that I know SO much more French, and my mom's going to make me keep it up... UUUGH. OMG I'M SO EXCITED TO BE COMING BACK!!! I have 2 more weeks of school, a break, then 8 more weeks, and 9 days of it I'm going to be on a field trip with my class...... ok, so that's not a good thing. What kind of teacher do I have if she puts me and my friends in the same room? Especially with Paulina! Now, I know you probably don't know who Paulina is, and you probably don't care, but I can tell you she is CRAZY! INSANE! BONKERS! OFF HER ROCKER! The weird thing is she's allergic to nuts, I don't get HOW because she IS one! My dad just said," Do you want to do your hw?" I was like,"No" He was so confused, 'cause normally I'm really stressed about finishing homework and stuff, so I finally stopped toying with him and reminded him that I don't have school on Wednesday. That's one thing I'm going to miss. Although, I won't need the break as much. Anyways, I just WANT TO GO HOME!!!! I have nothing else to say, we're having a math test on Thursday, and I'm horrible at dividing decimals. Oh well. I don't know what else to talk about, so I'll just say," Until next time!!"

Lili(an) Belle in PARIS

PS: The pics I posted are of "the good old times".

Do I even have to say it?

As you can see, we spent sunday afternoon making Hamentaschen for Purim (which my daughter tells me is next weekend). The best recipe, if you're interested, is on the Martha Stewart totally waspy goyisha but don't want to alienate my jewish audience since I am still very closely linked with the entertainment industry web site. And I mean that sincerely... the recipe, I mean. It is an awesome recipe, there is orange zest in the dough (as I understand it the jews are not generally into 'zesting' but it is kosher, I checked with the Rabbi, otherwise known as our friend Eugene). The girls picked the fillings (which I believe are Kosher but not all traditional): apricot jam (my favorite), cherry jam (a little runny), lemon confiture, Nutella (we are in France), dark chocolate, peanut butter (recent gift from a visitor), PB & J and PB & Chocolate. Quite the assortment, huh? What made the day of baking extra fun was that I was well rested from a weekend without the children (thank you, Amy) as they both spent the weekend with friends and Ethan and I were able to spend the weekend relaxing together. What did we do, with all that was available to us, you ask? We ate at good restaurants, we saw good movies (American) and we explored a new neighborhood (Canal at Saint Martin, old neighborhood, new to us). What didn't we do, you ask? We didn't rush. We didn't yell or nag. We didn't cook or do laundry or shop. It was really a nice weekend. Not that we don't have nice weekends with the children (thank you, Amy), we do all the time. But this was different and a nice change of pace. And thank you to our new friends who had our kids for the weekend and told us it was their pleasure and that it was no problem at all. (I'm sure if we knew them a little better they wouldn't have lied to our faces but since we are all still playing nice, they did, so thank you.) Until next time...