This year, for different reason, we stayed at home to celebrate Christmas. We invited a friend of Marc, Pierre who lives in London. He came with a lot of food: some oysters which I liked for the first time in my life, 6 bottles of wine, 1kg of Gambas that we ate on Christmas Eve, three Lobsters that we ate on the 25 in the evening and 2 duck breasts that we ate on the 26. Adding to that, I prepared a pork join stuffed with prunes and dry apricots for the 25th at lunch time.

Outside the table, the children celebrated Christmas on English way. On Christmas Eve, they went to bed in an appropriate time. Before going to bed, they spread the Reindeer food that they made at nursery in the garden. Arthur help me to prepare a plate of Christmas biscuits and a glass of juice for Father Christmas and we song a French Christmas Carols before sleeping.

The next day, they found a lot of present under the Christmas tree.

They got spoiled: a lot of chocolate and sweet, Arthur got a lot of toys related to Lighting MacQueen, the hero of Cars movie and Rémi got in summary Thomas the tank Engine and his friends toys and some Lego.




We spent a great Christmas, even if we missed a lot our family and friends from Strasbourg.
Balise - Christmas
samedi, janvier 30 2010
Christmas.
Par bloucox le samedi, janvier 30 2010, 20:02
mardi, janvier 26 2010
Father Christmas in the train.
Par bloucox le mardi, janvier 26 2010, 20:16 - Week-end
The weekend before Christmas, we took the steam train for Cholsey with Nic, Lisa, Elliot and Jorja to meet Father Christmas.
On the way in, we tried to spot all the snowman on the rail, then when we arrived at Cholsey we went to the park. The weather was with us: the ground was covered of snow and black ice, but it was sunny.


Back in the train, we went to meet Father Christmas. Rémi was terrified again, but Arthur agreed to take a picture with him. Rémi got a book and a rewind duck for the bus. Arthur got a domino game, two cards game and a pen.

After our journey, we, all, went back home to get a hot drink to warm us up from this long and adventurous trip.

vendredi, janvier 22 2010
Nursery Christmas party.
Par bloucox le vendredi, janvier 22 2010, 21:00
Christmas started really early for us. Beginning of December, the nursery organised a craft day to create some Christmas decoration. Rémi was really pleased by the idea, but Arthur preferred to play hide and seek with his friends outside.
We came back home with food for the Father Christmas Reindeer to put in the garden on Christmas Eve for them to find our house, a decorated pine, a decorated CD and a star for the Christmas Tree.
Rémi even came back with his first face painted.

Then, there was the children Christmas party individually. I managed to go to both of them.
Rémi’s one was a disappointing. It consisted for the parents to stare at each other while the children were playing, then a snack and at last Father Christmas visit. Rémi got terrified by him and didn’t want to go to pick up his present. He got a lovely book with animals which make noises.

Arthur’s one was more interesting as the children made a little show with some songs. Unfortunately Arthur spotted me in the room straight away and preferred to suck his thumb all along. His teacher was really disappointed because the same morning during rehearsal he sang well, but I knew he will react like that. In any way, it’s been few weeks he kept singing all the songs at home.
Then there was a snack and Father Christmas visit. He got two submarines which are still really popular in the bath.

vendredi, décembre 25 2009
Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas / Buon Natale
Par bloucox le vendredi, décembre 25 2009, 20:04
On mange beaucoup, le père Noël nous a gaté. Joyeux Noël à vous tous.
We are eating a lot, Father Christmas spoiled us. Merry Christmas to all of you.

jeudi, juin 4 2009
French fries
Par bloucox le jeudi, juin 4 2009, 18:42
If you know the story about the deep fat fryer, you will understand my joy when I got my Christmas present from Marc.

I didn't understand everything at the beginning. Thanks to Kathia, I understood I will get a deep fat fryer. And few months later, here we go:

I am thinking about it now, because we ate some French fries yesterday! For the ones who don't know the story, let's say that it was one of the best present that Marc could have offered me!!
samedi, avril 25 2009
The one where Christmas took place in Strasbourg
Par bloucox le samedi, avril 25 2009, 22:54
A the beginning, like the year Arthur is born, we wanted to spend Christmas at home. But at the last minute, we thought it will be better for the children to spend some time with their cousins.
We did well.
Arthur enjoyed Mazarine.


Rémi enjoyed his great-grand-ma.

And after a walk in Strasbourg, we found a little elf.

We had, obviously, a great time with our family. The children were spoiled. We managed to see quite a few friends, but as last year, the bugs visited us. It started with Arthur, then me, the same day but in the evening, three days later, Marc and when we came back home, Rémi. Fantastic.
The change, this year, is that we came back home before new year, not a such good idea, we didn't do anything. And Marc fell asleep in front of the TV.
Myself, at midnight, I was changing Rémi's full of s..... nappy. No comment.
jeudi, avril 23 2009
The one where Fiona baby-sit the children
Par bloucox le jeudi, avril 23 2009, 22:16
Because, we were going to celebate Christmas with Christelle and Richard, our official baby-sitters, we had to ask someone else to be able to go out.
Who's better than Fiona, Arthur's former childminder? And when Fiona comes, she comes with her daughters. It's party time for the boys! And by leaving them with her, I knew I shouldn't worry.
Because at that time Rémi was still breastfed, I prepared a bottle in case he asks for it, knowing he never had one before. With Fiona, it's not a problem. And the next day as well with daddy.


mardi, janvier 15 2008
The return of the Carlucci
Par bloucox le mardi, janvier 15 2008, 22:16
mardi, décembre 26 2006
Arthur's first Christmas
Par bloucox le mardi, décembre 26 2006, 19:39
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Arthur had a lot of present despite the fact we were staying in Wallingford this year. He received:
- a cd of English nursery rhymes from Christelle, his favourite baby-sitter
- a T-shirt from Tina et Ronan, our Australian friends who live in Sydney, but who came to visite us before going to Bristol to celebrate Christmas
- 4 cd of French nursery rhymes from Sabrina et Alex
- a second soft toy to help him sleep from Sabrina et Alex
- a frame with a sewed bear with Arthur name and date of birth made by Sabrina
- a book about Jesus birth in English from the toddle group he is going to with Fiona on Thursday
- two T-shirt from Fiona, his favourite childminder
- a game for bathtime from his favourite parents

- a book in French which explain how to make a snowman from his auntie Véro, my sister
- a snow suit and a scarf from Grand-Pierre and Maminouche, my parents
- a book about the adventure of a little bee from Mamie and Papie, Marc's parents
- a jumper made by Kathia, Marc's sister
Thank you to all of you, he loved the wraping paper 
Also he had his 8 months check up last Wednesday, he weight 9,340 kg (20 lb 9 oz) , he has 4 teeth coming through at the same time (the 4 at the top), his bottom and his cheecks are red, but he is smiling all the time!!!
At last, and it's not related to Arthur or Christmas, while I was in France for my grand-mother's funeral, one of my really nice cousin cut my hair and last Thursday I did some cupper and golden-brown high light, but it can't be seen properly on the pictures 
lundi, décembre 25 2006
Merry Christmas !!
Par Marc le lundi, décembre 25 2006, 09:28
Here things are very well, my sister Sabrina and her boyfriend Alexandre arrived well, Saturday instead of Friday due to a very thick fog.
Yesterday we went to the swimming pool with Arthur, he enjoyed swimming and playing with toys. Marie stayed at home to clean it.
Back home we cooked dinner, Sabrina the dessert, Alex and I the Christmas turkey and vegetables, following a Jamie Oliver recipe.
Around 18:30 we had a drink in the living room and watched helped Arthur to open his 11 presents !! To all of you : Thank you very much !!
After Arthur went to bed and we started our Christmas dinner, "Foie Gras" on toasted bread, I had butter. Then the turkey with the vegetables, it was full of flavour, very very good !
We started playing a game that was in one of the cracker and laughed a lot. At the same time we had chocolate cake with ice Cream.
While waiting midnight we watched "The Russians Dolls", in french "Les poupées Russes", it's the sequel of "Pot Luck", in french "L'auberge espagnol", both very good movies.
At one o'clock we opened our presents. We were all very impressed by Marie's mother present to Marie, a photo album telling Marie's story since she was born, Alexandre even had a car, a 407 coupé.



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