Swiss school, from our perspective

Just wrapping up yet another Swiss long weekend. A 4 day weekend for the kids thanks to Ascension Thursday – a religious celebration, connected to the Holy Week and Easter. I’m fuzzy on the rest of the details but sure do enjoy having a nice long weekend in May.     And the coolest thing…

Cerebral confessions of a stay-at-home Mom.

On the eve of Mother’s Day I find myself reflecting on my role as a mother. Never more has that role held as much weight in my identity as it does now. I have always defined myself as a working woman and for the last 10 years in particular I had a career that I…

The next chapter

“Don’t rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.” This week marks 10 months into this journey. A journey which we had envisioned as being 13 months of new experiences and transformation. It has lived up to that expectation and beyond. So much so in fact that we’ve decided to…

Getting good at the goodbyes

Today we shared our teary goodbye with the train station in Winterthur. It’s like a traveling road show…we’ve made a scene here, at the Zurich airport, at the Zurich train station, the Calgary airport, at random bus stops, you name it, if we are saying good bye, it can be guaranteed that there will be…