Who we are

A family scattered across three oceans 💛

I’m Shannah. When I found out I was expecting a little girl, I wanted to tell the people I love. And I ran straight into the obvious: they are never in the same place — and never at the same hour.

Four points on the map

• 1
  UsIn France, with my husband and our daughter.
• 2
  My fatherIn Tahiti, out in the Pacific. Nearly 16,000 km away, eleven to twelve hours apart: when I wake up, he is going to bed.
• 3
  My motherOn an island, in Corsica.
• 4
  My husband’s parentsIn Morocco, on the other side of the Mediterranean.

Getting them all in the same room, on the same day, at the same hour? Impossible.

So the idea came on its own — and a little thanks to Lina-Vaï, already there, in my belly. Instead of a moment everyone has to catch at once, a small reveal to send: each of them opens it when they wake up, wherever they are, and gets the whole surprise.

Everything you see here, I imagined my own way. It is copied from nowhere, and that is probably why a few rough edges remain — I work hard, every week, to smooth them out one by one.