Employed!!!

(Warning, this is a wordy one, settle in for story about my journey to employment. But I promise good photos too.)  After 15 months as a full time HausFrau, countless resumes sent out, plentiful self-esteem-killing rejection letters, I finally have a job.  It’s amazing how good it feels, after months of self doubt, to have…

Back in host mode – sharing our Swiss home with some of our most favourite people.

We’re not new here anymore. We’ve got our favourite spots, our routines, our groove. We can even chat with the locals in a way that almost feels like we know the language.  We are maybe slower to gape and gasp at the beauty around us now, than we were in those early days. But nothing…

Dwelling in our new tranquility.

Some of my posts have been a bit wordy lately – I had such great conversations back in Canada, it got me all verbose again. Anyhow, this post is the opposite, heavy on photos, not so wordy.  It is a well known fact that the outdoor space in Switzerland is quite spectacular. Until now I…

Feast or famine

For those of you who haven’t yet experienced the exhilaration of living your life balancing on a knife’s edge between peril and bliss, you really don’t know what you’re missing. That feeling of waking up from a restless, tossing & turning sleep, to welcome an eye twitch like a long lost friend.  Rather than embracing…