The season one finale of Je Suis un Croissant picks up where Episode 7 left off. Tara is back in France, in a house she'd seen exactly once, and two days later the good girls arrive, delivered straight to the front door. For the first time since August, everyone is under one roof.

Then comes the waiting. Tara takes listeners through living on rented furniture, a first round of holidays without their own things, and the household shipment that took almost four months to arrive. The practical segment covers the French customs paperwork, the conditions for bringing belongings in duty-free, the lithium battery rule, and the delivery day that put two households' worth of furniture in one house. Plus the end tables that don't fit and the e-bike battery saga.

In the last part, Tara answers the question she asked in Episode 1: did they actually step off the hamster wheel? She describes an ordinary weekday and weekend now compared with life in the US, shares her husband's answer and her daughter's one-line review of France, and is honest about what's been harder than expected (the language) and easier (finding community).

The season closes with an instant camera that went missing during the move and turned up a year later in the last place anyone looked.

Programming note: there's no new episode next week while the family takes the school holiday. Season 2 starts the week after. It will be organized by subject rather than month by month, so leave a comment with what you want to hear about.

Music: 'Django's Night Out' by Albert Behar on #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/albert-behar