Tonight I babysit for about 2 hours...Virginie and Jerome technically put the kids to bed, but when I came up they weren't asleep yet...and Tiphaine was crying for her mom and didn't want to fall asleep with her bedroom door closed. So, luckily I brought the storybook "Madeline" from the U.S. for the kids. I convinced her to let me read to her, and we read the story of Madeline and the 12 little girls that live in Paris with Ms. Clavel. The book is adorable, with fun pictures of Paris. C'est parfait ou pas? Madeline gets a bad tummy ache and has to go to the hospital to have her appendix removed. While in the hospital the 11 other girls visit her and see all the flowers and candy and balloons she gets and they start to cry because THEY want to be in the hospital too, like Madeline. Anyways, it's a cute story and I read it pretty much like any other Mary Poppins nanny-type would have...and Tiph and I talked about all the places in Paris, and one of the pictures is of the Seine River, and we talked about how the Seine goes through Bougival (where we live). She liked it alot. We finished the night with "The Little Mermaid" book, and then she fell asleep, sans tears.
Tomorrow is Friday, and I have a short work day! I am off after lunch (even though I'll work an extra hour to get some ironing and cleaning done for the kids). Then I'm off until Monday! No babysitting this weekend, so I plan to take advantage of my time off....PARIS here I come! I need to get some good rest though as well, and also exercise. The weather is supposed to be cold and rainy so I'm going to choose 'inside' activities for the weekend in Paris. I also want to finish my current novel and begin a new one. Ashley is going to London so I will hang out with Kirsty on Saturday, and maybe one other au pair I met in my French school. Her name is Paris....haha. Anyways, it's weird being back to work after 10 days off, but so far it's okay. Today I thought of a new way to convince Matthieu to wear his coat....it's Superman's cape! Lol....hopefully this new little game will get the boy to wear his amazingly warm and chic winter coat in the cold weather!
A bientot!
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Hello Lowa. Just booked a tix yesterday w/ Mombo to Paris, I will be leaving on the Feb 15th and rolling in on the 16th morning......how fun is that??? Birthday time! BTW- saw a good film "Into the WIld" and in the previews they had a movie centered in Paris- anyone seen or heard of Paris jet amy or something.......indi flick
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401711/
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