A picture from this morning: He’s here today with just the big kids. John and Dannell took the little ones to an indoor amusement park for lunch. t.c. was so excited he was shrieking as he headed out the door, John fast behind him yelling, “Don’t run! No running! It’s icy and wet!” Good luck, […]
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I’ve heard of something called Cooking Mama. This is our Construction Mama: Tim took this thing as far as he could, which was impressively far, actually. But then it all got away from him and others had to help. These Knex are much tinier than the other ones we’ve had before, the tiny drawings and
Jay’s brother and his wife hosted the party at their house. There was way too much food–even something called cooky salad which is whipped cream and cookies, mandarin oranges, and possibly even candy bars? I’m not sure. By any name, this is no salad, but it’s hilariously decadent. My sister in law is so much
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All dressed up: I only took a couple pictures at church because it feels impolite, for some unknown reason. We were there early because the guys were ushers, so I sneaked a couple without flash. this is a friend’s son lighting candles. (he’s wearing his bell ringer gloves.) The service was gorgeous–beautiful music, formal, elegant,
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Tonight was our 23rd of December family Christmas party. It did not disappoint. The usual characters, the usual noise, torn up wrapping paper, giddy kids were there. We had the usual shrimp and meatballs, cheesy potatoes, and salads by both Alicia and Jay, the little weenies and the gingerbread. There was a bottle of pinot
john dancing with his great-grandma Tim’s in vision therapy these days, has been for a bit now. I’m not normally around mainstream parents much. There’s no special reason for that. I’m not around alternative parents much either. Life evolves, I guess. So. Now I’m at vision therapy and in the waiting room a couple times
A little bit terrible. Okay, this is the first story, not too terrible. After church this morning, (yes we did get there,) Jay was about to make sandwiches for the crowd. When he reached into the fridge and grabbed the mayonnaise, whoever had used the mayo before this had not screwed on the lid–not at
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Okay. Today was a quiet day, overcast and cold. I worked a while and wandered home, grabbed a cold leftover taco from the fridge and came in here to the computer to read the news. What’s happened in the old world so far today? I clicked the mouse, so the screen turned on, and suddenly
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He’s here today, getting watched by the fam, and he’s too darn cute, striding around, deliberately swinging his little arms, eating kidney beans and pumpkin bread. It was during the eating of the kidney beans and pumpkin bread we noticed he was struggling to keep his eyes open. His head would dip and eyes droop
