I'm not good at this game !

Clearly, I'm not smart and/or organized enough to take care of a blog.

Anyway, I won't promise to do better but I will try at least.

Let's update our life !

What did we do since April ?

We went to the beach and I took my first and maybe last bath in the Pacific. I almost lost my toes in the freezing water. Who told me that the Pacific was a warm ocean ?!

Dan works a lot but really enjoys his job. I'm so happy for him and I'm glad that his company realizes how exceptional my hubby is.

I'm still looking for a job but my French tutoring is getting better every week. Now I do play dates in French with 6 two year old kids. I also give class to a bunch of adults and I'm expecting more students in September. I applied to be a French instructor for preschool in Marin County and I'm waiting for their answer. Cross your fingers for me ;-)

I got a volunteer position at the Humane Society in Novato and I'm following the training to be an Adoption Counselor. I love it ! It's the best way for me to improve my English, spend time with animals and be useful to the community.

Speaking of animals...

...We have new Sugar Gliders. Our couple had twin girls this time, Osumi and Kiku (names of the first Japanese satellites). They can be such a pain but I love them so much ;-P

I'm considering breeding them but I need a house to do so. Of course, we don't have the money to buy a house and won't have the money until we start breeding... It's a vicious circle ! We're thinking of selling our kidneys and livers, if you know anyone who's interested...

We hope we will be able to move next year. Dan hates having neighbors and I want a dog so bad.

I think that's it.

I will try to update soon even if we don't have a crazy life.

Oups...

I didn't write anything in my blog for more than a month and I don't even have a good excuse to justify it. I'm sorry.

I have plenty of time to do it now that I'm officially a housewife.

My man is kind enough to provide for us and pushed me to quit my job.

I love Mina but I was not happy being a nanny every day. 

Now, I'm home and I'm looking for freelance work. I do my best to take care of our home and to make my hubby happy. 

I also teach French to adults to bring home a little money.

On Friday, I applied to be a volunteer at my local SPCA. I'm still waiting for an answer. I'm won't be paid for the work I will do but at least I will be helpful to the community .

Last weekend, we went to buy a bougainvillea and other plants. I'm trying to have a "yard" with some cherry tomatoes and strawberries. I succeeded last year and I hope I will do as well this year.

Poor little thing

A hummingbird knocked himself out in our window today.

I put him on a towel in a box and Dan called the pet doctor to know what to do. She told us to wait an hour and if there were no changes we could bring it there.

After an hour, the bird opened his eyes but didn't really want to fly. I was worried about his wing so we went to the pet doctor.

He flew away in her office, she caught him, told us to release him in his natural habitat and that's what we did.

Everything went well and we're proud of ourselves ;-)

The New One has a name

We finally dedided to name our new Sugar Glider. In fact, we did it a few weeks ago but I didn't update my blog... Oups... Sorry... :-P

Dan's special boy is now named Spoutnik.

Once again, we followed our "Space Conquest" theme :

Aldrin is the second man who walked on the Moon.

Lois is Aldrins wife... so far ;-)

Valentina is the first woman who went to Space.

And Spoutnik is the first satellite sent to Space.

Endives au Jambon

Today, I was not working so I decided to cook one of my Dad's recipes: endive with ham.

I agree with you, it doesn't look that great (mostly because I forget to take a picture right out of the stove and I took the picture in the middle of my meal) but it's really good and Dan loved it.

And if I can make Dan eat vegetables, it's definitely a success ;-)

Our family

Let me introduce you to some members of the family.

We have Lois and Aldrin (Thanks April, Burgandy, Senja and Scott for this amazing gift). Aldrin's brother is named Armstrong that's why he's named Aldrin lol. Lois was Deirdre in the past but we realized that Buzz Aldrin's last wife was Lois. We wanted them to reproduce and we thought that would raise the chances lol. And we were right !

Valentina arrived quickly after. She was a calm baby...

... but she changed ;-)

And we have the "new one". We call him like that because I'm superstitious and I don't want him to die (Dan thinks it's ridiculous). He's tiny but really adventurous already.

They're weird animals but we love them and Dan is so proud to have a "baby boy" now. His "special boy" like he loves to call him.

Pop-Tarts

I had a new American experience this week : Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry.

One sentence comes to my mind right away : What the crap !?!

Who on earth would invent something so weird ? It's not that bad but it's not good either. It's way too sweet even for me.

Anyway... I did it but I'm not in a rush to do it again.