The madeleine Blog

I am very sorry to report that despite my best efforts and intentions, January is not through with me yet. I guess today is the 31st, and I will just have to endure until the very end. I did not do anything wrong in December though, I swear, aside from complaining about the holidays, which should be humanity’s inalienable right, as far as I’m concerned. So, I’m not sure where this vengeance is coming from, unless Santa got really, really mad this time. If he did, I want to s

Well, hello, hello, and Happy New Year to all! Here is to hoping that things will get better on the world front, at least. As far as the...

And here we go again. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we are now face-to-face with December, aka the Christmas tunnel for those who...

I should have known, as soon as I hit “publish” on my pumpkin soup post last week , that my sweet, sepia-colored picture of Autumn domestic bliss would come back to bite me. And it did, the very next day, as soon as we sat down to eat the damn soup. Dinner was chaos from beginning to end, with my boys getting up and running around the kitchen at regular intervals, while giggling hysterically and relentlessly asking for more baguette. Which was hopeless since they gobbled it d

Friday is always Soup Day at my house. This is one of the handful of routines I have been able to maintain over the years, since my older children were toddlers. I can count on one hand the number of the routines I actually follow. As a rule, I tend to have difficulty sticking to any given plan. I don’t know if I should blame aging, or undiagnosed ADHD – that thing was never mentioned when I was growing up, and tends to still be ignored in France, as far as I can see. Maybe i

I would never have imagined writing two consecutive posts about figs. I enjoy figs, don’t get me wrong. But not the way I gobble up plump...

I think the hardest thing for me to deal with as a parent is just STUFF. I mean just THINGS, material physical objects - toys, clothes,...

Photo Adobe Stock I haven’t done much cooking lately and haven’t felt much of an urge to cook either. Somehow days and evenings go by and...

Photo @madeleine diaries I have been back in the city heat after a welcome long weekend, which was decided at the last minute and did...