Roche is back on the blogosphere, after many days - or even years of absence! And she is bringing with her in her little red spaceship her new baby sister Maevou! For the presentations: Maevou is ...

Here is our new model of house, still very compact but much cosier! It was inspired by a book called "The Soft House". The only regret: I didn't have time to make chocolate chip cookies for the ...

Don't tell me you cann't read a map, c'est un jeu d'enfant! Here are the maps we used to go to the shop next door (we only had to cross the bridge over the big road). Amd we checked the map on the ...

Today, we celebrated one of the Ben Ten fans birthday! For the occasion, I made a - succulent - chocolate cake that we decorated with all the children. We made paper shapes, placed them on the ...

Mo and me decided to recycle old fahion magazines to decorate the house. We tore lots of pages, trying to choose the most vibrant colours and constrasts with white, black and different letter ...

Here is my new banner for La Maternelle, created by Mo and me, and inspired bby Nikki de Saint Phalle (remotely inspired, I would say...) I don't know yet if I can use it as a banner for this blog ...

On Saturday 13th June, I invited all my toddlers and their brothers, sisters, friends and families to a big toddle for the organisation Barnardos (http://www.barnardos.ie/bigtoddle.html). We were ...

I was not very happy letting the children play on the green lawn beside our house: Under the pine trees. people left plenty of rubbish and it was awfully dirty, and the kids loved to go exploring ...

No, this text is not about me, i am never home alone!!! It was written by Mo as an essay for her school. Mo discovered the use of exclamation marks, as you can see underneath! One hot summer day a ...

You must be wondering what happened during December, if the children and me were all hibernating? Not at all! We were only preparing a Christmas tree! What? It took you one month? Yes. First, we ...

A usual afternoon in the Maternelle: the paint is out on the table, and all the children use it in their own way: Drrgh is covering a page with crayons and lack paint in order to scrap it later, ...

We celebrated the Epiphany in the French way by eating the famous Galette des Rois, two times! We went to town to buy it at Christine's Sugar Patisserie. She also gave us 3 lollipops, she is so ...

Today, we discovered how Georgia O'Keeffe went from painting flowers to painting details of the flowers to not painting flowers ay more! Ben was able to discover a monster in her Black Iris, and I ...

On Monday, we made brown bread with ddk and J. The recipe can't be much easier: Stir all the ingredients together in a bowl with your hands, the put it in the oven in an oiled mould, temperature ...

Last week has been very much centered around dance and its different forms. Rohe is now back doing ballet dancing out of her own will, in St Catherine's school on Model Farm Road. She is very ...

Roche is now 3 years old! We celebrated her birthday 3 times, and could not have enough of it! One with her Dublin grandparents, one with papa and maman and a little mufin cake, and the last one ...

How to make Halloween decorations fun? Take an image of a skeleton (http://www.hugolescargot.com/halloween.html), cut it in pieces and try to assemble it back with your child! You'll see what they ...

We have new bookshelves in the kitchen, and they are the children's bookshelves! They are now free to do painting whenever they want, and also boardgames, jigsaws, drawing, playdough and junk art, ...

Ab and Roche created dresses for their paper models today. You can see Ab's work-of-art, very colourful and fancy - I'd like to know where I can buy such a graphic dress for myself (with the hat ...

On Friday, Ab felt very tired from the week. I asked her if she wanted to sing songs and she told me: "NO!" So, then, no activities! They did free play with Al and Roche, Ab was knocking their ...