Sweet life in France

I went through my pictures from France and noticed how sweet is the life when I'm on vacation in France. Some pictures can illustrate this statement pretty well.....
The first one shows my mother reading and looking at my dad who is trying to take a nap, I would classify that as a pretty standard piece of life in my family.
The second picture is also very standard, my parents having a coffee in the garden with some chocolate and a home made apple pie. The apple pie is a special occasion that means there is visitors at the table, but to be honest, there is a lot of visitors in my parent's house, so there is a lot of pies too..... My brother sitting at the window and chatting, is pretty standard also, he is probably teasing somebody, he is very good at it :-)..... And I have plenty of other pictures showing how sweet is the life there...
It is an attempt to describe the atmosphere in my family....
Oh and I forget, there is the trouble maker, the one who live far away. But she likes spend some time in this place before going away for new adventures :-)

Back from 4 weeks in France

Yes I know, I'm spoiled....
Not only I live in California the all year(I have a fantastic weather most of the year and a very nice life), but also I can spend 4 weeks in France each summer to see friends sand Family.
This 4 weeks in France have been really nice, I got to see a lot of people and the fact I spent a lot of time at my parent's house made me feel perfectly relax and at my place... It is like if I had a double life, one in the US and another one in France: After 4 weeks you don't feel you are just visiting, you feel you are part of where you are, it is a very nice feeling.
Hopefully one of this day, I will be able to make my friends from the US visiting France and vice versa.....
Tom, my nephew is ready to replace his dad into the fields, he is never tired to play with all the tractors.....
My Dad chatting, as always we are having a good and relaxing time.
With some friends we went for a little but beautiful hike into the Alps.

Christmas in France

Well I know, I'm late but well, being on time for my post wasn't a New Year resolution..... To be honest, I try my best not to have any new year resolution. Good resolutions, good resolutions, OK I can have plenty, but you know what, I know that most of the time I'm not going to achieve them, so I will finish disappointed and I have to wait the end of the year to have again the same "old" new year resolutions.....After a certain number of experimentation, I decided that it was pointless.....
But good news, we are still in January, so I can wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR :-D.
I went for a very short week in France to spend Christmas with my family, it was short but intense.
Each time I go to France I wish I could stay longer, but I guess it is usually the case with vacation, isn't it? All the time I spend with my family is very precious, I want to take the most of each instant, this week was just so nice... So as a good french woman, I spent a lot of time eating, drinking and talking.....
I got to know a little more my younger nephew Tom, his father (my brother) is a farmer, and Tom's childhood is like heaven, he probably knows more than I know about farm, tractors..... I saw almost all my sisters, brothers, nieces ,nephews and even some uncles, aunts, cousins and whoever knows a little bit about my family, knows that it is a lot.... My parents are a little harsh on them because they are making sure that they are going to make the effort to come and visit me. I really appreciate that but at the same time I feel a little bad because some of them had to adapt their very busy schedule.... Well anyway, I was very happy to have the chance to see so many people in such a short period of time.... Thank you everyone....