tammyfurey – Family Matters Switzerland

How to Be One of Those Annoying Happy and Grateful People

Have you noticed how happy people are naturally grateful? How they can survey their lives and find so much joy

There are many shoulds that are wrapped around the Christmas holidays like glitzy, cheap wrapping paper. Most of us have

Start a conversation with any expat in this adopted land of ours, roll past the pleasantries of “How long have

Sitting on the train from London Heathrow airport, I watch the houses zoom past. Then I have the most bizarre

“Oooooh!” “Hasn’t she grown?!” “Isn’t she getting big now?!” We the parents stand behind our children as they get compliments

My daughter’s music teacher told me a story about a colleague in Basel. She was a teacher from France who

Around October it starts: “Are you staying in Switzerland for Christmas? Are you heading back home? Is the family flying

In my early 30s I always heard rumours of the dreaded parenting event called the “Birthday Party”: an event filled

Choice of schools in England is a Big Thing. To try to explain the Bigness of this Thing to a

Our group had noble intentions at its conception: a group of wives and partners from a certain company would gather