The Stories of our Lives

This is our family blog. We use it to share glimpses of our family life, everyday anecdotes and reflexions, and we archive the kids' growth. In Québec, Canada.

Orléane Orléane is now...
10 months!

Xavier Xavier is now...
2.4 years!

...and there's also their parents. Émilie writes most posts (including the children's) and handles the design, while François makes sure all the blog clockwork is running smoothly. To contact us: EMAIL.

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Archive for the month of April, 2007

Take me down to the river

As the grandson of two sailing lovers - mom’s parents are taking navigation lessons (my grandad used to be a sailman) and are hoping to buy a sailboat to take out to the sea in the next years - as their grandson, then, mom thought it was about time I saw a decent body of […]


Le show de David Usher

It’s a stupid idea to attend an event in a pair of new shoes, or even shoes you just took back out for the season. Alright, it’s said. Now you can forget about the shoes, because I surely did.
We wanted to get to the Maquisart around 7pm and of course were late, so turned up […]


A healthy day

There’s a French saying that goes “after the rain, the good weather”. Yesterday was still a bit windy but ok, and today is… wow. Sunny with just enough wind.
I was able to vacuum/wash the floor this morning while Xavier was awake, which basically means that it entertained him (he loves chasing the vacuum and crawling […]