Happy new year, my nightingale!

It is the first day of January! Happy New Year, my nightingale! One day down and many more to follow. Stay positive and full of hopes!

Bonne = good (feminine form of the adjective 'bon')
l'année (fem.) = the year
mon = my (masculine, possessive pronoun)
le rossignol = the nightingale

Merci 2013.

Hopefully 2013 was also an awesome year for you all, mes cheris. Lets have the sense of gratitude and thank for all the good and bad days. We made it through! Merci!

365 days of celebration, my darling!

 2013 was good. 365 days of memories. Keep them well. Treasure the best, and forget the rest.

Vocabulary:
365 = trois cent (three hundred) soixante (sixty) cinq (five)
les jours = the days (le jour = the day)
mon cheri = my darling/sweetheart (masculine form) / ma cherie (= feminine form)

Happy hangover!

Today is the last day of 2013! Bonne Année! Ne buvez trop de champagne, vous ne voulons pas avoir la gueule de bois demain... Don't drink too much champagne, you don't want to have a hangover tomorrow... but then, it is new year! Time to celebrate!

Vocabulary:
bonne = good (feminine form of the adjective 'bon')
la geuele = the mouth (informal term)
le bois = the wood; here: de bois explains how dry it feels when having a hangover

C'est la vie.

Sometimes things are going a different way than we expect. Then it means, chin up, arrange crown and keep on walking, nightingale. It cannot be that bad - c'est la vie!

Vocabulary:
c'est (derived from "ce est" = it is/that is/this is)
la vie = the life
mon ami = my friend ('mon' is a masculine possessive pronoun in French, suggesting that friend to be male)
et = and
ce n'est pas = it is not
Nachtigall = nightingale (a German word)