a little sidewalk chalk art For the first time since last fall, it was warm and beautiful out. Heidi was here with her little peanut and we spent the afternoon on the patio. b.g. was here today too and he LOVED the patio. We went out there at noon and he never went back inside, […]
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Okay, for a long time we were a family of six. John, Dan, Heidi, Kirsten, and us. That was all, and it was good. I’m going through photo albums for a project involving my parents’ 50th anniversary and came across these, which are of a weekend visiting Jay’s grandparents John and Lydia. That’s Grandpa John
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Mine today. Kari and I share. It was great. Jay made lasagna last night for the party tonight. This was Kari’s request and an excellent choice. He did a great job. I’d baked the cake earlier, and unfortunately the cake had issues. It tore when I frosted it and things were spiraling downhill, so we
It’s Lydia’s birthday. She used to be about the nuttiest squirrel in the house. Not anymore. Since she turned ten last year she’s become extremely civilized. She never hypes out, smarts off, or causes trouble. She’s good-natured, responsible, and calm. I mean, we knew this would happen eventually, but already??? When she was born, we
sid the science guy does this to him. mesmerized. It was great. We had this man here. He’s a lot of fun, dumped out the dog’s water only once, and he did his swiffering and helped me vacuum. He holds onto the vacuum and stands between my legs and yells while we go. It adds
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A few pictures from Little Jay’s birthday party on Friday night: Tim’s showing t.c. how to gel his hair. The results: l.c. whispered a song to his new cousin. Why are so many pictures blurry? That’s not the song–I just get tired of cute, blurry pictures. He sang her Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. She liked
I got a couple kids here chattering away to me now, disrupting my train of thought. But what they’re chattering about? They have a 3-D trading card of a tiger. First the face, then tilt it and it looks like the tiger leaping toward you. I’m accumulating items to put in a care package for
Okay, we were going to go grocery shopping tonight and also pick up something for supper. Tim and Julia were outside playing, and from the looks of it, nearly rolling in mud. Woo Hoo, living it up. We called them inside, said put all the muddy stuff here in a pile. Change clothes, and then
