Enfin, on a survécu - mais c'était juste, juste - et là Jean prépare des crêpes avec les filles, on a fait une journée on range, on nettoie et on redonne un visage présentable à la maison qui avait eu tendance à être négligée un peu.
At last, we survived - but barely just - and now Jean is preparing pancakes with the girls, we had a tidying / cleaning day and we gave the house its presentable aspect back because things had slipped a little - a lot.

Our tree is decorated, for the girls's greatest pleasure - they did it. This year I couldn't be there and help, too much work, too many meetings and trainings... I thought about them and imagined them unwrapping the decorations, marvelling and commenting...


And to complete the Christmas atmosphere, it is snowing !! Elise and Laure have already gone sledding today, and yesterday lots of trains were late. On Friday night I was at a colleague's who had organised a little "aperitif" and a "game evening" and I didn't want to go there by car and go back in the dark and snow. And I wanted to lighten my carbon print so I went by train. Well, to go back, I took the 11.04 am train... at 11.40 !! And that caused Jean who came to pick me up to miss me because I arrived 5 minutes earlier than my train, who was 20 minutes late, was announced. Well... so I walked back to my car, that was parked at school, and it was 35 long freezing minutes but I won't complain because I burnt a lot of calories and I got to exercice, to compensate for the fact that on Friday, lots of people showered the school with Bredele (Christmas cookies), they were everywhere and of course I ate too many. It's the first year I've seen so many of them !! Well, to go back to the train situation, in Mulhouse there were people who had been waiting far longer than I had, all the trains coming from Lyon had monstruous delays, and I heard that there were broken down trains in the Eurotunnel (because of the cold). So I'm not the worst off.
1 commentaire:
Oh, I'm glad you made it back home safe and sound. What a winter you're having.
I read your later post about your walk in the snow with your family. What a fun thing to do.
No snow here, just lots of rain, which makes drinking chocolate or tea by the fire very pleasant.
Enjoy your holiday!
Joyeux Noel du Canada!
Lorrie
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