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

OMG – cracking up!!

Found this new blog called LAMom. She is hilarious and I love her stories. Well this one takes the cake macarons. So funny… While I was laughing at this little scenario I scrolled down to find her recommendation on FifiFlowers. With MrM and I going to Paris for our Honeymoon in April I was ecstatic to see all the beautiful and bright pictures.  I immediately went and looked at her EtsyStore. Then I was so inclined to order a Calendar!! Cannot wait for it to get here. Now If I can only get the picture of the couple overlooking the Eiffel Tower for MrM and I….

Source Fifi Flowers

Never too Old to Learn Something New

I was bee bopping around looking at all the new year reflections and found that I am one of these people....

A NO REPLY COMMENTER... Tutorial

Thanks to Shelley over at Young House Love. I am a noreply-comment@blogger.com. I had no idea. I have recently been frustrated when I have tried to reply to some people that have commented on my blog and I get the mail failure. I am Pleased as Punch that I get comments so I want to let you know  that I appreciate you stopping by. Please let me help you so that I can get back in touch with you.

Source: Young House Love

Go to your Dashboard and edit your profile.

Make sure you check the Box for Show My Email address.... Then Save Profile.

This will now allow me to reply to your responses and comments AND now you can reply to me when I leave you a comment.... Whoop Whoop -- I'm on my way to more followers. Goal for 2012 - at least double my # of followers = 22. You have to start somewhere right?

Oh Canada

Hello from Brockville Ontario.... Look across the street river is New York. Morristown to be exact. This was so cool for me to see the USA so close but be in a place that felt like another world. These people have their own language!! Eh

I love all the Canadian Flags everywhere. Lots of love for ones country.

I love the architecture in this town. The houses are old and adorable!!

More from our trip to Canada to come...

RePost for Photo Challenge

Can't wait for all the cousins to get together and play with these!!!

 {This post was entered into the “Silly Holiday Photos” linky at I Heart Faces.)

ABC Post

Lets get this year started off right. I like getting to know all of you out there so let me tell you more about me and not just my family. I was over at Cait's checking out her new years and reading about her one month blogiversary ....since my one year is coming up!!

With No Further Adew

A. Age: 34

B. Bed size: Queen and I still like having my husband close.

C. Chore you hate: I HATE folding laundry...I love clean clothes, I love the smell of clean clothes but I HATE to fold laundry. It must be in my DNA BC my girls HATE to fold laundry too.  

D. Dogs: I have a miniature Dachshund Bailey who sometimes drives me crazy and taps his feet all the time so his nickname is Happy Feet.

E. Essential start to your day: Coffee. Preferably in our French Press made by my sweet husband.

F. Favorite color: Green...and Blue

G. Gold or silver: Silver – Gold…I am trying to bring back the gold in 2012 thanks to my Christmas present!! I even mix n match.

Michael Kors from my sweet husband

H. Height: 5’6”...even if my Dad says 5’ 5 ½” we all measured ourselves on my parents wall over Christmas and added the kids too.

I. Instruments you play: Clarinet through High School only … shout out to the Lassiter High School Marching Band … and yes I get the “one year at band camp” jokes.

J. Job title: Customer Service Representative at Nucor Steel aka… inside sales person for Coil. I am not a titles kind of girl.

K. Kids: 3 for now. LilMissJ 10, BigGirlH 9, and LittleMan 3 months

L. Live: Charleston, SC .. Yes at the beach and yes it was 70 degrees on Christmas

M. Mom’s name: Connie

N. Nicknames: Kel (hate this one), Honey, Baby, Babykins (when MrM is in trouble) and favorite Mommy

O. Overnight hospital stays: Only when having my babies

P. Pet peeve: People who lie or gossip and leaving the Toilet Seat up!!

Q. Quote from a movie: “No one puts baby in the corner” (Dirty Dancing) and from my all time favorite movie “Every party has a pooper, that why we invited you! Party Pooper! Party Pooper! Every party has a pooper, that’s why we invited you, George Baaanks!” (Father of the Bride)

R. Righty or Lefty: I am a Righty

S. Siblings: I have a Twin Sister – who still copies me and a younger Brother.  

T. Time you wake up: 5 AM on weekdays – ugh, 8am on weekends :) after I get up at 6AM to feed Little Man and hope I can go back to sleep. Today was not one of those days.

U. Underwear: Victoria Secret … always makes a woman feel sexy even when pregnant

V. Vegetables you dislike: Squash and Sweet Potatoes

W. What makes you run late: My kids, my husband, me…. I can’t seem to get it together.

X. X-rays you’ve had: Dentist and a few for bad colds of my lungs

Y. Yummy food you make: ok I just asked the girls and I got a lot of options but my husband makes those. Here are mine… salmon with the lemon sauce (I make the lemon sauce) and spaghetti. I actually love to cook and do most of it.

Z. Zoo animal favorite: the Lions at the LincolnPark Zoo Link  and the Polar Bears at the Shedd Aquarium

Now I want to hear from YOU!

J. Job title:

P. Pet peeve:

Q. Quote from a movie


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Let the creativity begin

A long time ago one of my favorite blogger twins Erika posted this pic of her daughter Sloane. (her sisters blog is here)

I have saved this picture as inspiration since I saw it on her blog. So now that is is 2011 2012 I finally get to put this to good use. I have a dear friend who had the ONLY sweet baby girl out all of us 5 mommies. Poor Augustina will have 4 boys falling all over her. Thank goodness her daddy is really into jiu jitsu.

Better late than never, we had her little photo shoot. Here are some outtakes:

I love her sweet baby face. AND the final picture which I chose for my version...

This little girl was born less than 24 hours before my Sterling. She was born 6 weeks early but the team at East Cooper took very good care of her. Augustina is now thriving just like the rest of our babies. Tina did not get to hold Augustina at first so she came to love on Sterling.

Do you have anything that inspires you that you may hold onto for future use?