St. Nicholas Day 2013

Hi Everybody, Bonjour!!!
This is Lucie.  Today I celebrated St. Nicholas Day, a holiday more commonly celebrated in certain areas of France and other countries in Europe and people in North America of European ancestry.

Putting out my boots at bedtime last night.

Dreaming of candy and presents:)

Look what arrived while I was still asleep.

Exploring what is in my boots :)

Candy cane, chocolate, caramels and a mini mag :)  I also got some home made maple spicy nuts (no peanuts)

I love caramels.


St. Nicholas Day celebrates the life of St. Nicholas and is the basis for the more commonly know Santa Claus.  European immigrants to the US brought their traditions around St. Nicholas and then gradually in the mid 19th century this started to evolve into the Santa Claus most kids in the US and Canada know.  For me, St Nicholas doesn't look all that much like Santa but that's OK.  Other places in France celebrate on christmas eve and leave their shoes out for Pere Noel (father christmas as he is known in Great Britain.

No post on December 6th would be complete without remembering the 14 women who were murdered in Montreal on this date 24 years ago.  Go and google the Montreal Massacre.
Today is also the 96th anniversary of the horrible Halifax Explosion (look that up too).  sorry I didn't post any links.

A bientot
Lucie  :)

A little house cleaning

Hi Everybody,
This is finally Sophia and Emma.  The moral of the story is never say that you are bored because you will regret it when you end up cleaning up your room.  At least Sophia feels that way.

First of all we needed to eat lunch.

Realizing that we just got stuck with a cleaning job :(

The before picture.

Getting started.

How did lucie's rainbow loom bracelets end up in our room?

Dusting.

The after picture.

We ended up making our beds too.

Tada all done !!!!

And now for supper, fried noodles and potato pancake, like latkes only 1 big one instead of many small ones.

Lighting the candles.

Here's one last picture just for fun, it's not of us.

A little bit of hand balancing, McKenna holding Lucie up and Amaya spotting Yoko who is doing the splits.  Wish we were that flexible.

That's it for now.

Sophia and Emma :) :)

Trip to the farmers' market and other stuff too:)

Bonjour Tout le monde,
This is Lucie guest blogging.  Last saturday I got to visit the new farmers' market here in Halifax.  It has an awesome rooftop walkway and sitting area (when it's less cold out).

Here I am up on the roof.

By the way I got glasses.  I don't have to wear them all the time, they are just for distance.

We stopped to look at a couple of witch hazel trees on the way home.  I like to climb trees sometimes.

I got a maple sugar to eat while we were at the market.  It's shaped like a maple leaf.

I got new pjs too.

Finally a rainbow loom type loom that is my size.  It's one that collapses and expands.

Look what I made with my loom.

That's it for now.
Sorry there haven't been any blog posts recently.

Lucie :)

L'Anniversaire de Lucie :) (or Lucie has a birthday)

Hi Everybody,
This is Lucie and I am guest blogging again about my birthday that was on Halloween.  For the first time ever  I had a Halloween themed birthday party, sort of.

My brother and my sister sent me a present.

My maman sent me a present too.

These are rainbow loom bracelets, colored elastics woven together on a loom.  These were made by my friends back at home in France and sent to me for my birthday.

Sophia and Emma gave me an ugli doll icebat.

The food was delicious :)

I'm making a wish.

Birthday outfit.

The house pumpkin.

Any names that you don't recognize are friends and family back home.  

That's it for now.   A la prochaine, see you next time.

 Lucie. :)

Introducing Lucie

Bonjour Tout le monde or Hi Everybody,
Je m'appelle Lucie:)  J'ai 11 ans (presque 12 ans).  My name is Lucie and I am 11 years old, almost 12 actually.  Here are some things you should know about me:
I come from Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.  I have 1 brother and 1 sister.  I am dyslexic (look it up if you don't know what that means).   I am very active, I like to do a lot of different activities like circus and dance and gymnastics, to name a few.  I do all these things because I have a lot of energy:)

Here is what I look like, me voici:

I'm not from Paris but my dad lives there:)

This is more my style of clothing:

At the Halifax Oval, getting my rollerblades and gear on.

On the Oval itself, had a great time this morning doing this.


That's it for now.  A tout a l'heure, see you later.
Lucie :)

New photos

Hi Everybody,
This is Sophia.  Yes Emma and I are still alive :)Here is a photo of me and some photos of the new girl's room.  If you follow us on instagram you will know what I mean.  There's a link at the bottom of the post if you want to check it out.

enjoying some nice weather.

Here is the first half of the new girl's room.  She loves purple.  She is another foreign student can you guess where Lucie is from?

Here is the other half of her room.

That's it for now.  If you want to see what photos we have on instagram, here is the link.http://instagram.com/hfxgirltoo#

Yes we jumped on the instagram bandwagon.  It is actually really fun and easy to use.  We can see why sometimes people use it more than blogging.
Sophia :)