“Mom, where did you put my swimming suit? Where did you put my wooden gun and my fishing net?” Every half a day, I’m looking for something I put away a few days ago or more. Two teenagers drop a lot of items at places where they’re not meant to be. And one has […]
5.15 p.m. on a Saturday Big boy: “I’m bored. Let’s do something.” Little boy: “I’m busy now. I’m playing with my Legos?” Big boy: “Can I play with you?” Little boy: “No, you’re always disturbing me.” Big boy: “Come on. I want to play with you.” Little boy: “Don’t touch my Legos.” […]
7.31 p.m. at the breakfast table: Big boy: “Who is your best friend at school?” Little boy: “I don’t have one, I have several?” Big boy: “But if you have to choose one?” Little boy: “Oh, this is difficult. I like many.” Big boy: “Come on. If you have to choose right now!” […]
This is India, too. You won’t believe that this picture hasn’t been taken in London, Paris or Rom. And it wasn’t a five star hotel. It was a coffee shop in the quarter of the Tibetan colony in Delhi. How come that this coffee shop knew what is modern art in serving things? I […]
Spending two days in an Indian train might be unimaginable for Swiss people, and this with two kids who like to move every minute. But no worries! There is so much going on in such a train: So many different people getting in and out, so many sellers of various sweets, drinks or different […]
When I was as old as my little boy, nine years old, I was a quiet, timid girl being very afraid of talking to other people than my family and blushing when I had to talk to the teacher during the classes. I don’t know how I survived so many displeasing situations in the […]
Returning from India we stopped for a few hours in Abu Dhabi. This airport is a melting pot, which I think is very enriching: you can find so many nationalities, so many ways of dressing and so many different faces. My boys feel very comfortable in such a surrounding. And I hope they will […]
Little boy is a very sunny, caring and clever kid, and his self-confidence is big. I often tell him how great he is. For example, during his violin lesson he is talking without fear telling his teacher why it has been difficult to rehearse, why it has been easy to play this way […]
She is an 86-year-old lady: proud and brilliant. Her body is fragile, but her mind is rather strong. Before I met Olga Charova, she has been lying in bed for three months, being very sick and loosing a lot of weight. I didn’t expect her to leave her home and to come to the […]
Two brothers – but two totally different persons – by character and behavior. The older one is an early bird, gets up at six o’clock and starts yawning long before nine o’clock at night. He falls at sleep in the circus, when we have guests or when his little brother feels totally in […]