In this episode, I wish everybody a happy new year! I resume what we did as a family for Christmas and our New Year holidays. I also explain why we have been busy lately with our upcoming wedding and how much our kids participated in the planning. I also explained how 2024 started off with new students and new challenges. Happy listening!

In this episode, I talk about Will, my step son who just celebrated his 12th birthday. I talk about the person he is and all the ordeals he had to go through in the last three years due to his drug resistant epilepsy. I speak about his new school and his Paralympic club that he attends every Saturday. I praise him for being so brave and kind, and for teaching us every day two important things: positivity and humility.

In this episode, I explain why this week was so good. Great temperatures! Wonderful colours of the leaves! Fall is finally here. Let's cheer to the wonderful colours around us but also to the great seasonal products we will have for a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends.

In this episode, I share my thoughts about the transition from primary school to secondary schools for Etienne. I also talk about the admission tests to get into a private school in Quebec when your child is in 6th grade. I also ask people to give me some advice to make my kids' lunch boxes more varied as I tend to run out of ideas when it comes to preparing lunches.

In this episode, I talk about my latest trip to France and the reasons why this time, it was a very special holiday. I mention the places I have visited this summer and the people who came with me on this trip.

Among the places I mention, here are a few that might catch your attention if you plan a visit in Limousin:

- château de Marzac

- gouffre de Proumeyssac

- Brantôme

Happy Summer everybody!

In this episode, I talk about the differences between French humour and British humour. I mention the humorists that I love watching on different platforms and the reasons why I like them so much.

Here is a list of my favorite comedians:

Florence Foresti

Michael McIntyre

Loic Suberville

Paul Taylor

As we celebrate Canada Day this weekend, let's take time to laugh harder than usual.

In this episode, I speak about a new idea that I have had for our family! Saturday is our game night! We get together with our neighbours who are originally from Brazil and we play games with the kids. It takes place at either their place or ours and we eat finger food.

Here is the list of games we usually play:

1. Geo guesser

2. Heads up

3. Time's up

4. Boggle

It is something that we, as parents, have very much cherished in the last few months and so have the kids. So if you have any games you want to share with me, that would be awesome!

In this episode, I talk about the joy of reading. Since finishing my biggest contract to date with the government, I have taken a week off where I rediscovered the joy of reading. During that time, I caught up on the book Surrender retracing Bono's life (the U2 lead singer). I also started reading the book from the NPR journalist, Mary Louise Kelly: It goes so fast. It was offered to me by the kids and Bill on Mother's Day. It is such a great book! It shows how important it is not to always feel guilty as parents and that juggling family life with work doesn't come without any mistakes made along the way. The most important is to show up when we can. We can't always be perfect as humans (both at work and at home). We just need to try our hardest.

In this episode, I revisit the highlights of the last few months: my trip to Banff with Bill, my weekend in Ottawa with the kids and the launch of my website. I would like to include some links here for the places I visited in Banff as I thought they were awesome and could be useful for anyone wanting to visit Banff. I also would like to share with you the website of Julien, my website designer, who I think he is so talented and professional. He is awesome too!

BANFF

http://www.littlewildcoffee.ca/

https://www.thegrizzlypaw.com/our-food/micro-brewery-pub-and-restaurant-in-canmore/

JULIEN

https://www.eliadedesign.com/

In this episode, I interview my nephew, Quentin. He opens up about his hobbies, especially sports and his energetic personality.