Dreaming of France -- Holidays

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Today is Mother's Day in the United States, and our plan is to move to France next year the week after Mother's Day.

Here is my mother and her four children. I'm the girl on the right, without the teased hair!

Mother's Day is a deadline of sorts for us since we chose the week after Mother's Day to leave  next year. That means that from now until we move, I will be filled with melancholy about the last time we... whatever it is. Celebrate Father's Day. Celebrate Fourth of July. Labor Day. Birthdays. Thanksgiving. Christmas.

I'm so thrilled at the plan to move to France, but I, of course, am nervous about moving so far away from my children and my parents.

Here I am in La Rochelle, France with my three children, along with a friend's teenager. She came along to show us around.
My good times in France with the kids should encourage me that we'll have more good times to come.  This was 1998. 

So next year, on Mother's Day, I plan to convince my mother to come to Ohio so we can celebrate together. Then, I have already told my husband that we must return to the United States for my mother's 80th birthday in November 2017. So I know we'll be back here for that and Thanksgiving together. Maybe we can slowly wean ourselves from American holidays.

Here we are in Paris having a meal with our family friend, Marguerite.
I really hope that our children will come visit us in France and we can celebrate holidays with them.

Truthfully, the French have so many holidays that I really shouldn't miss the American ones.

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