While a lot of friends of mine spent their summer vacation on the seaside, my father decided that hiking in the Swiss mountains was the best thing to do with his family. My brother and me tried to have fun with our father’s hobby. But we were very often “like a cat and a […]
Bathroom at 6.45 a.m.: Big boy: “Why do you look at me this way?” Little boy: “What’s the problem?” Big boy: “Stop starring at me.” Little boy: “Did you get up with the wrong foot?” Big boy: “You look terrible today.” Little boy: “You’re in such a bad mood.” Big […]
It took me quite a while to realize what it means being a mom. My own mother told me so many times that I’ll be remembering her when I’ll be having my own children. She used to say so when she was upset with me. And as I remember, she was it very often […]
Circus means childhood. And I wanted to go back to KNIE, our big, almost 100 year old Swiss Circus – the first time with my two boys. I was seven when my German grandfather wanted to go with me to KNIE. As I had already been with my mom two days ago, I knew […]
Being together with some friends means enjoying life. I don’t need to be very intellectual or very funny. I am just the way I am. I remember when my parents invited their friends, my family had to spend some very dumb hours. My father tried to talk as intelligently as possible. My mother tried to […]
It is a rainy day; school is off. The kids are playing, but not playing together; rehearsing a own play to invite their mothers to come and see. They close the shutters because there has to be special light. They organize popcorn and syrup. They write an invitation card for theirs mums; they even […]
They play around; they have big fun. The little one grew up in India, the older one in Switzerland. The one speaks Tibetan, the other one Swiss German. Both know a few words in English but not much. The little one is living in a boarding school in Dharamsala, the older goes to a […]
He’s got this bright smile on his face. It is promising. Two years passed that I took this picture. So many things have changed. Now, my ten-year-old is discussing with me why I dare punish him by shutting down his iPod for a day; he is arguing with me because I push him to go […]
Having breakfast in pans Being a good friend to children means doing things you never wished to do. One thing was camping at 50+. Financial reasons brought us three to the camping site in Italy for two weeks. While all our friends of the past years were living comfortably in their apartments on […]
Remembering happy moments of childhood… a hard thing when you get older and when you aren’t born as a digital native. Fortunately, there are some pictures like this one from my two boys fooling around in the bath tube.