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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:38:54 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>petit Paris</title><subtitle>petit Paris</subtitle><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-11-26T15:42:03Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>farm field trip</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><category term="playtime"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/farm-field-trip.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/farm-field-trip.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-26T15:34:12Z</published><updated>2009-11-26T15:34:12Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span>&nbsp;<img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_fermedupiqueur.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1259250005456" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I always say I'll never do it again but here I am going on a <a href="I always say I'll never do it again but here I am going on a field trip with 28 7 year-olds. again." target="_blank">farm</a> field trip with 28 7-year-olds, learning about Angora rabbits, chickens and two New Zealand pigs named Thelma and Louise.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRy68-ECDOk" target="_blank">22 things my children have taught me<br /></a></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Maggie</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="inspiration"/><category term="travel"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/maggie.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/maggie.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-24T08:47:31Z</published><updated>2009-11-24T08:47:31Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_withmaggie.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1259052481278" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"I'm going to give this to Maggie" Sean said showing me a leaf he had picked up while walking around in Rotterdam.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"well, you know Maggie is very busy today and maybe we won't be able to see her. we're here to bring her some things for her children in Nepal, remember?"</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"but we took the train and came all this way! I really hope we get to see her."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">little did I know&nbsp;the universe would conspire to grant my boy's wish, and teach us lessons we will never forget.&nbsp;thank you all so much for supporting <a href="http://www.blinknow.org/" target="_blank">BlinkNow Foundation</a> and <a href="http://maggiedoyne.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Kopila Valley Children's Home</a> by purchasing prints and Polaroid postcards on my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/momsterinparis" target="_blank">etsy shop</a>&nbsp;this past month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sean gave his leaf to Maggie.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>outtake</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><category term="magazines"/><category term="parks"/><category term="photography"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/outtake.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/outtake.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-23T12:27:06Z</published><updated>2009-11-23T12:27:06Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_outtake.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1258979296189" alt="" /></p>
<p>from a photo shoot with my boys in jardin des Tuileries for <a href="http://smallmagazine.net/issue.asp" target="_blank">Small Magazine</a> Winter Issue.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toy-a-day.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Toy-A-Day</a></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>métro</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/metro-1.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/metro-1.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-06T11:02:49Z</published><updated>2009-11-06T11:02:49Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_metro.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257505418337" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I love that Sean and Will are growing up thinking it's a fun, inexpensive and small but meaningful way to help the environment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.comehomesoap.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">come home handmade soap</a></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>what I love most about our family</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><category term="travel"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/what-i-love-most-about-our-family.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/what-i-love-most-about-our-family.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-02T12:41:00Z</published><updated>2009-11-02T12:41:00Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_dayatdeauville-2.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257425281331" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">waking up in that undecided state that eventually prompts us to drag the kids away from early morning cartoons and bundle them up for an impromptu day at the beach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">and it's the most normal thing in the world.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Women Are Heroes</title><category term="books"/><category term="exhibitions"/><category term="inspiration"/><category term="photography"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/women-are-heroes.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/women-are-heroes.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-11-01T12:51:00Z</published><updated>2009-11-01T12:51:00Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_womenareheroes.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257425503415" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">beautiful eyes gazing over me as we drove by the Seine river. reminding, once again, that we are together.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.womenareheroes.be/" target="_blank">Women Are Heroes</a>: a most wonderful&nbsp;<a href="http://www.womenareheroes-paris.net/en/le-livre/">book</a>, project and <a href="http://www.womenareheroes-paris.net/en/" target="_blank">exhibition</a> by French photographer JR.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>each day</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/each-day.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/each-day.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-10-16T18:21:00Z</published><updated>2009-10-16T18:21:00Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_jumpingonbed02.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1256025412185" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- May Sarton,&nbsp;<em>Journal of a Solitude<br /></em></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>catching up</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/catching-up.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/catching-up.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-10-09T21:35:23Z</published><updated>2009-10-09T21:35:23Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_backfromschool.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1255124157550" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">catching up after school&nbsp;as if they'd been apart for months. talking about Pokemon cards, Christmas wish lists and their best friends Basile and Baptiste's upcoming birthday parties.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/typefour/3103084898/" target="_blank">its the little things</a></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Le Petit Nicolas</title><category term="books"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/le-petit-nicolas.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/le-petit-nicolas.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-09-28T20:00:00Z</published><updated>2009-09-28T20:00:00Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center; "><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_lepetitnicolas02.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1254224309809" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">back from the local library with two different editions of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Petit-Nicolas-French-Sempe-Goscinny/dp/2070364232" target="_blank">this book</a> chronicling the adventures of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_petit_Nicolas" target="_blank">Nicolas</a> and his friends with odd names such as Eudes and Agnan.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">note: no speech bubbles or Pokemon. I couldn't be happier.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>udon</title><category term="Sean &amp; Will"/><category term="everyday life"/><category term="restaurants"/><id>http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/udon.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/petitparis/udon.html"/><author><name>irene</name></author><published>2009-09-21T10:25:36Z</published><updated>2009-09-21T10:25:36Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/storage/petitparis_kunitoraya.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1253528771167" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p>Sunday lunch at <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d783239-Reviews-Kunitoraya-Paris_Ile_de_France.html#" target="_blank">Kunitoraya</a>, one of our favorite Japanese restaurants in Paris.</p>]]></content></entry></feed>