Four years ago, during a dinner, I asked Charles and Louis (who was 16 at the time):
“ What do you want to do in life? What do you want to create? It doesn’t have to exist. What would make you happy? ”
Louis: “ Mom, you did it! ”
I didn't expect it. I don't think I've ever been so touched, so moved.
Yes: when he made the decision, after three years of working within the team, to join us full-time. And to tell us one evening, a few weeks after this carefully considered choice: "I have never been so happy."
For twenty years, my daily priority has been to create environments conducive to the development of our children. First, with the alternative school I founded for Louis (and hundreds of others in turn). Sylvain sees things the same way, and since then, he's also been on board.
I stayed home to be with my children, writing a first book and then starting a business that way, with them.
The alternative school allowed me, even today, to accompany them on site: first Louis, then Charles, and now Jonathan. Following their accomplishments, their needs, and their challenges, also knowing their friends. And being with them.
Realizing that by designing my life in this way, MJ allows me to continue to evolve alongside it, is the greatest gift, after that of having given life and met love.
I wrote it before: you can't go wrong by following your heart. The ultimate accomplishment for me is these connections. And now, without having thought about it, simply following my path day after day, I am where my dreams could not take me.
And what's more: Louis impresses us every day. Amazing. Embodying more than life has taught me. What a place he already occupies. This gives us boundless confidence.
Charles, different and complementary, surprises and delights us just as much. What a beautiful story to follow ♥️
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