Blog Posts

I interview Vivi about her after thoughts of going to school in Switzerland (Luc’s actual school!). Before you started school in Switzerland, do you remember what you thought or felt about going to school there? That’s a hard question. I was scared to not make any new friends. Cuz they would all laugh about my accent. And how did it work out? It worked out fine actually, I made a lot of new friends. What

December 24, 2018 to January 8th, 2019 It was like Christmas when Jaedyn came to visit. It actually was Christmas eve when she arrived. Vivi and I were so looking forward to her coming. She has this joyous disposition to her and she’s my little girl and Vivi’s big sister. We hadn’t seen her since we said good bye to her in New York about 5.5 months before. Of course she was tired from such

October 6, 2018 to January 8, 2019 This post is going to be a bit longer than normal. I’m going to attempt to capture the highlights as well as what I was feeling on the inside. I’ve been thinking a lot about this particular blog post as I feel now, as I look back, that it was a really hard time for me emotionally, but now I see what I was doing and why and

November 10-11, 2018 Kidney Stone Watch:  We got back from Bretaye and ramped up to leave the following weekend for a family gathering in the Jura. I was starting to feel even more nervous about heading somewhere that wasn’t close to a hospital and spending a bunch of time with Luc’s family not feeling great. On Tuesday, I got some herbal remedies for the stone: olive oil to drink, lemons to help break it apart,

November 3-4, 2018 Kidney Stone Watch:  The day after returning to Switzerland from Turkey I went to a Swiss hospital to figure out what is going on. After running some tests, they say my kidneys are functioning well, there was a small infection, but no blockage. They ordered an CAT scan. I got back the results from that scan and the stone was still inside about 70% of the way down my ureter. I spoke