Maya's Unbelievable Journey

Goodness gracious, I can't believe how much time that I have let pass!!!!! Since the last time that I had a minute to sit down and write, has been forever. I am actually sitting in a restaurant, while I wait for Maya to finish her ski practice!!

So, since the last time that I wrote, I have been busy with all the holidays, being a taxi driver for one Miss Maya, and taking out the dog.

I figured that I would catch up on my blog, since I have a sick little girl home with the stomach flu and can't do much, besides a ton of laundry.
Couple of photos of our little growing lady:

Since I last wrote, the end of November, we celebrated Thanksgiving at our house with friends. It was delicious! Still not home, but it was a good time! We were stuffed. After we ate we took a walk to walk off our dinner, in our favorite place.

Next day we started decorating the house.

Maya trying to help

Then we were off to our annual St Nicolas fete. It was a little sad this year, as one of our good friends lost his 40 year son to a brain hemorrhage. Also, quite a few of older friends were suffering from health problem, so it was quite small this year. The kids still had a great time!

Maya dance class open the doors to the parent once a year to demonstrate what they have been learning, since the beginning of the year.

They also had a private holiday party for the whole dance, which the parent weren’t invited.

Her ice skating did their holiday party. She gave her Christmas dress from last year to her good friend and Gammie got her a new one, so they were the Santa twins!! Even the moms had a bit of fun and got their faces painted too.

We did quite a bit of cooking too. Seems that I have become some sort of cupcake queen. At the end of November, I made 40 for her class to celebrate her birthday. Then 50 for her Christmas market at school to be sold to make money for her school, and 50 for Jean-Marc’s work. Plus we made cookies for her teachers for Christmas. Maya was a great help and a lot of fun!!She call the Hershey kiss cookies the Gammie cookies, as she remembered making them with Gammie the last time that we were home for Christmas.

Miss Maya Bee is very fashion conscientious. From the tip of her head to tiny little toes. Her latest thing is combing her hair straight, which kills me, as I love her beautiful curls. Which aren’t as curly, as her hair get longer, sniff. Here is my little goof ball showing off her hair.

Maya dressed a lot for the holiday!

Our visit with Santa in town!!

Christmas seemed to really sneak up on us. I was very unprepared, as we planned to take of the day after Christmas to spend 10 days in Val d’Isere skiing. We had a nice, quiet, Christmas at home. The best part was we had lobsters for our Christmas dinner. They were delicious!!

Here are Maya and Daddy playing with their Christmas gift from Santa. LEGOS!!

We had our good friends the Richard’s (Coco, Olga, and Eva) come and ski and celebrate New Year’s with us. Oh yeah, I forgot that during all this, I rip the tendons in my left knee during all of this, so there was no skiing for me for most of the vacation. I did manage to hit the slopes a bit. Maya had a great time Eva. They were excellent.

Maya has started competition skiing this year. She goes 2 days a week to our local ski station the 7 laux and skis from 3 to 4 hours. She does this with the GUC Grenoble. She is doing well, but prefers to do jumps and boarder cross than slalom racing. I usually go along one of the days, so the pooch can get his snow fix too.

We went with Maya dear friend Elise and her family to see Disney on Ice. Lesson learned this year, if you have seen Disney on Ice the 2 years before in United States, it is the same one two years later in France. It was still fun to see and was a great time.

So, now we are on vacation (I know, again?!?). We rented a place at the 7 laux, because Miss Maya Bee has her first ski race. Unfortunately, for Maya she came down with a huge stomach flu the Thursday before the race, and was very ill for 2 days. Then mommy came down with the very same stomach flu, the day before and was sick all night. So, when preparing Maya for her race, Mommy forgot to put heated pads in her ski boots. So, of course it was freezing during the race, the poor things toes were killing her, so her first race experience was not the greatest. On top of everything, I had to miss seeing her first race, as I was keeping the toilet company.

We had Maya’s good friend Elise and her mom come stay with Mommy and Maya during the week, since both Daddy’s had to work. It was great fun. Except when the dang dog came down with the flu too.