Virtual Valentine

Via The Paris Blog

Say “I love you” to a friend or lover with French-themed Valentine’s Day cards. This collection was created by The Paris Blog at Hipster Cards. We love that site because it doesn’t require registration in order to send fun and cheeky greetings to friends for FREE. Check out the rest of the collection here.

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Spanish Steps

I won!! At the last moment I decided to enter the 2 Little Hooligans chance to win this Shabby Apple Dress. I never win but thought I would try. So today as I am reading my blogroll I see the title Shabby Apple Giveaway Winner and Repainting the Kitchen.

The Shabby Apple giveaway winner is...

Adventures of Shaw who said...
My favorite Shabby Apple Dress is Le Coeur. We are going on our honeymoon to France in April and I want all of them.

Congrats! And how exciting to be going to France for your honeymoon. That dress couldn't be any more perfect for the trip!

That's me !!! I had noted that Le Coeur was my favorite -- because I love the color combination and the romantic feel

Le Coeur

Doesn't this description sound divine? Ultra comfortable and ultra girly, Le Coeur lies somewhere right in between "favorite t-shirt"and "darling cupcake."

Another one of my Faves...

Pont Neuf

I just learned in my book that the Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the Seine in Paris.
I could go on and on about all the dresses over at Shabby Apple.

I want to sincerely thank Christina over at 2 Little Hooligans for allowing me the opportunity to win the Spanish Steps Dress.

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday Folks…. Well the Shaw’s had a very good weekend. Hope you all did too. Here is our Monday Recap from Charleston.

Over the weekend we had a sunny and cool weekend.

It is restaurant week here in Charleston.

I love this week because the MrM and I try to taste a new restaurant around town. This weekend was a treat. Friday night we went to Bistro 536. A quaint place in Mount Pleasant. Their menu looked Yummy and did not look like reservations were required so we headed on over. It was very good!!

Saturday I worked out at Crossfit MT Pleasant – it was a nice long workout.

100 Double Unders

100 Slam Balls

100 Squats

100 KB Swings

100 Mtn Climbers

Goal – 20 mins Actual – 17:34

Then MrM, Little man and I were lazy. We continued planning our Honeymoon to Paris.

Hoping my book looks as 'used' as MrM's one day!

We ended our day shopping downtown ~ I went and looked at my Jeans. You remember the motivation post. We met up with some friends for dinner at Coast.

Coast is one of our FAVORITE restaurants in Charleston. We actually had our wedding reception at their Sister Restaurant 39 Rue De Jean.

Of course we are into Football playoffs so we all headed to DI Grill to watch the games with our group. The New England game vs. Denver was not as explosive as I had hoped. Now the San Fransisco vs. New Orleans Saints turned out to be dynamic!

Sunday we chilled again. Little Man is coming down with his first sniffles so we layed low and did a lot of snuggling on the couch. We watched French movies. Are you all catching our theme lately? We watched

I Do – French film with American Sub titles. It was hilarious. I laughed I cried. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.

We then watched Happily Ever After. Guess what – Johnny Depp was in this film. He did not say much but he was there and he looked handsome. Another good movie. Some of the same characters from the above. 

Sunday night was the Golden Globes. Wowsers there were some red lips going on! Did you all see Angelina Jolie, Michelle Williams and my Fav Reese Witherspoon? MrM says it is true love when he spends a night with me watching an award show. It is true love!

Hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend…. Now back to the grind.

I had the Chicken special and MrM had the Beef Medallions. This is also nice because we like to share.

Bonne idée

I have got Paris on the brain especially since we are going on our honeymoon in April!! I cannot explain my love for Paris. I think it is the mystery, the beautiful language, the Sex and the City aspect… everything about Paris intrigues me. I took French in High school … Mademoiselle Tiennes. She cracked me up with her 1950’s dress, Aqua Net perma spray hair ~ more like a larger, unprovocative Betty Boop. Her favorite sayings Zut alore (shucks) and Vite Vite (quickly) which I still use today. My French name was Brigitte and my sister Gigi. That is so funny too bc Gigi was supposed to be the Betty Boop name in the French class and that was not my sister!

MrM and I went up to Canada for American Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving is in October – which we celebrated in America). He took me around all his stomping grounds as a young child and we met his sister and grandparents etc. I will have to post on this separately. Well, MrM and his sister were brought up in French Immersion school. What is French Immersion you ask???  It is a form of bilingual education in which a child who does not speak French as his or her first language receives instruction in school in French. In most French-immersion schools, children will learn to speak French and learn subjects such as history, geography and science in French.

Now MrM went to this school all through High School. Wow!! And Thank Goodness too. I love when he speaks to me in French and reads to little man too. This also makes me feel inadequate that I only took 4 years of high school French and only remember petite quantite (very little).

SO…. What does an All American mom do??? Google how to teach baby French with English speaking parents. And Voila…. Lots and Lots of options….

First, there is a blogger Sarah, who started learning French in high school, went to a couple of French Camps and studied abroad to become employed as a French teacher at a university. She blogs about raising her children in  a bilingual home as a Non-Native French speaker. Her post on parents who don’t speak French but want to was very exciting to me. She mentions camps for children, books, songs etc. Just a general “How to” start to bring a second language into your home.

I am on over load right now. I want it all!!

To Ipad Aps.... french baby flash cards, Little Pim Word Bag