Valentine's Day

We are all settling in to some kind of rhythm in our days.  Walks around the lake, trips to the grocery store, cooking meals for 8, school work...the days just go by.  Today was a recovery day - school work, reading, sketching...kids all expressed that they were ready for something exciting - skiing again tomorrow for the proud and the fit.  Some of us will stay closer to home, preparing supper for the returning troops...forecast tomorrow is for light snow and mild temps.  So much slower than home...conversations about where to go in Italy and when to head to Lausanne seem so impossibly casual - we still can't really believe we're heading to Morocco in a month...and that we can leave our house on rue Voltaire and drive 400 metres to get to another country.   The everyday-ness of French is happy-making.  I look out the window of the salon and see the sign that says "Geneve-Lausanne"...amazing.  Last week it was Airport-Truro...