Tim’s getting so grown up. This year after the tree was cut down, he ran to help tug it along to the car. Near the payment booth they have a shaker machine. Guys set the base of the tree in this device and it rattles and shakes all the loose needles and junk out of […]
In 1981 we bought a 35mm camera. It was expensive for us at the time, but remember those crappy Instamatic snapshots? Yah. Actually, this camera was one of the best things we could have done. I have the most beautiful pictures of our kids growing up–all my most beautiful babies (Album upon album, a person
We had a great day, delicious meal, lots of laughing and pretty babies to hug. It was a beautiful day, and yeah, we feel grateful this thanksgiving. the tables, finally set the eating The kids were impressed by tiny snow-globes–Christmas ornaments with their names on them from great-grandma It was a lovely day, warm enough
Okay, the dog hair is quite under control, though the dog is here now beside me, probably shedding like a mad fiend. I hate to even mention this, since we’re okay now, but there are times when her butt smells shockingly terrible. There aren’t adequate adjectives for the shocking terribleness of the smell. We’re spared
Why is my house so dirty??? It’s that dog. Night before last I dreamed I was cleaning for Thanksgiving and everything was outrageously filthy. I woke up and laughed, “Oh, it’s not that bad.” (…but it is…almost.) Thanksgiving is my holiday though, and everyone’s coming to my house for dinner and there cannot be dog
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Today at the office they gave me the one year award and the owner said after the meeting he’d take me to the wine cellar to make a selection. I thought he was joking. After the meeting he called me to his office and said that thing about the wine cellar again. I told him
We put Tim and Julia to bed a while ago. She has her very own bed upstairs in the room she shares with Lydia (aka Kari.) She’s got the flowered sheets, teddy bears, etc. and so on. But she insists on still sleeping with Tim. Earlier I heard Jay yelling, “JUST GET IN BED ALREADY!”
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“The reason I chose my grandma for my National Honor Society mentor is because she is one of the kindest people I have ever met. She has taught me to work hard, and to be kind, honest, and generous, and has always believed in me no matter what. She would do anything she possibly could
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Julia’s learning the alphabet in preschool, and a note came home that she should bring something that starts with V for show and tell. Wow, okay. She said she wanted to bring vegetable oil. I thought that was not the best idea, potentially really messy, and I told her this. She said she’d leave the
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Maria reading with Sidney Oh my gosh. Tonight Kirsten came over to keep Maria company and hold down the fort while we were at Jay’s National Honor Society thing. Late in the evening, as the baths progressed, and Kirsten and I were dealing with the kids and the house winding down for the evening, Kari
