Maïa and Solanne

...at least for a kid with A.D.D. Doctor: So why are you here? Me: Well, she has a hard time focussing. Doctor: How exactly? Me: When it...

After four weeks of being on the road, we arrived home a week ago Friday morning, tired, dirty, but happy. The first thing the girls did: ch...

The city of Huaraz stands at an elevation of 3000 metres (about 10,000 ft), and various points in Huascaràn National Park, where we'd b...

Between May 15 and 17, we were on the road intermittently. On May 15, we left Ollantaytambo for Cuzco. We arrived back at the apartment wh...

Weaving We found our homestay family through an organization called Awamaki, which works with indigenous weavers up in the highlands above ...

For four days we stayed with a family in the small town of Ollantaytambo. We've been so busy that we haven't had time to reflect a...

Our adventure to this "wonder of the world" actually began the day before, en route to the town below the site, called Aguas Cali...

Markets and schools All in all, things are fine now and Cristina is feeling much better. We even went out today. First we went to the market...

An unexpected introduction to Peruvian health care The past two days have been very busy, in both good and not so good senses. This morning,...

Cusco We arrived safely in Cusco, after a pretty 'exciting' landing, swooping down into the mountains after a short flight. At a cou...

[After a long period of intermittent email access, we finally have a chance to post some things we've been meaning to put up over the pa...

A paraphrasing of Solanne's understanding of a childhood disease A few weeks ago, Pocky came to live in Solanne. She did not know about ...

By the sea Solanne had been talking about this since our first day in Lima: to touch the Pacific ocean. We have spent some time on a sort of...

Out and about After four days of staying in, the girls were ready to venture out. With all their sores either shrinking or crusted over, we...

Change of plans It turns out the virus the kids have isn't a flu, but the chicken pox. So we'll be staying in Lima for a little whi...

Lima The kids felt much better today, even after waking up at 8:00 with just six hours of sleep in them. They bounce back amazingly well. I...

Travel day We encountered our first challenge early, before even getting to our destination. Travelling for 12 hours with kids is hard enou...

...here we go! We are about 14 hours away from embarking on our next family adventure. After one sleep and a few hours of last minute prepar...

We had the talk. Not the one about where babies come from; they already have a vague notion about eggs and sperm and pregnancy. We had the ...

It's probably a weird way to get your kids to think about politics, but I try to make every opportunity a teachable moment for my kids....

The other day, Maïa mentioned that her stuffy Clicky and Solanne's stuffy Vanille get married everyday. The girls play wedding often eno...