What Ana Does

The first week the kids rode their scooters (or les trottinettes) to school, I was a wreck. They careened down the sidewalks, going to fast. They just missed knocking over people on the sidewalks, or would follow so closely to people walking ... it would drive me crazy. "Leah! Slow down!" "Alice, Be Careful!" What is the social expectations of kids commuting to school on scooters? Who has the right of way on a busy city street? But than, after about a week, I started to chill out. So what if they speed past pedestrians? Or messed with traffic patterns while trying to cross the street?  The girls are getting cigarette smoke blown in their faces every time we go out. (Blargh!) They are being force to halt as people just stop to window shop or look at their phone. Or walk their scooters over cobblestoned streets and huge sidewalk cracks. Not to mention swerve to miss dog poo left on the street. This is a small village in a residential district of Paris. A...

With the house packed up and half-gone, my week was spent finalizing paperwork for school, the temporary apartment and the shipping company. So far, so good. I also had a bunch of errands to run to pick up perscription refills and Leah's orthodontist file. She'll need braces in Paris. And cleaning/organizing what's left in the house. We also celebrated Hanukkah and got ready for our Christmas trip to Orlando, which will provide some much needed distance from all this madness for awhile and recharge our batteries for what's to come once we get on that Paris-bound flight. Less than two weeks away! Scooters for Everyone When visiting school options in October, here's what we saw ... ... scooter parking! Apparently, it's the best way to travel the neighborhoods around the 16th. We saw a scooters in a Parisian toy store and they were pricey, so I came home and started a search on Amazon. I looked for scooters that were inexpesive (it's a city and thin...