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 October, 2007

Happy Halloween 2007

Secret’s up! Here are our costumes for this year’s Halloween costume contest at work:

We’re Mr. and Mrs Pacman, in pixels!!
There was also a jack-o-lantern contest, and here are our entries :

The tree is mine, and Frank did the other one from an image I pulled from the web. He later drew a terrified face on […]


Une soirée de nostalgie

Transl. “An evening of nostalgia”
Saturday was my high school reunion. I think there was a committee that was supposed to take care of this, but nobody planned anything in the end, so one gal decided she’d start a chain reaction of calling a bunch of people and tell them to invite everyone they still had […]


Collectionnez-les tous!

Transl. “Collect them all!”
No, we’re not planning on cross-dressing Xavier in the near future… This little dress is destined for his future little sister! Yup, today was the 22 week ultrasound, and the doc believes we’re having a girl.
Even though they can never guarantee and it’s easier to identify correctly a boy - and […]