It’s pouring icy rain tonight, rained all day. There’s been little snow to play in, and now mud. So we’re stuck in the house, trying not to crack up. Sometimes we do a few errands to break up the monotony. We watch The Price is Right and work on math. There’s been plenty of time […]
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The little brother has his birthday in February, and the older in March, so their parents threw a party in the middle. They host the party at John’s work in the big rec room. See James and Little Jay playing basketball in back? We have all wondered how anyone gets any work done at all
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Oh yeah, here she moves it. When she wasn’t after the crayons, Sidney was her second target. There go the crayons again. She’s working her own book, and doing a good job of it. Yeah, it’s all pretty funny. See how high up beside me Sidney has climbed? The dog’s smart. Crayons aren’t edible, as
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It wasn’t a lot, but it was a pretty night and the kids were happy in the morning, but especially Sam was. And I can see we have a playhouse window to fix and a back steps to paint, but those are future Val’s problems. Today? No problems at all. love, Val
Okay, today we had errands to do: drop off the saxophone at the repair shop, mail packages, have a form notarized, drop off b.g.’s mittens. All these are quick stop errands where I can run in and leave Lydia in the car to supervise. She’s going to be twelve in a couple months. She can
Last night it snowed, which is rare this winter. I drove home late at night, creeping along over the ice and unplowed streets, taking the side roads home. It was as bright as day, big pink sky. When I pulled up to the house it looked like a postcard, pines hanging with snow, marshmallow caps
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Tim’s learning to read. He’s getting better all the time. But his level of comprehension is waaaay ahead of the very early books he’s able to get through. Yesterday he read me a story called, “It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny.” It’s a little cartoon rabbit, sick of his own home, who goes to live
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Okay, Kirsten works for a huge corporation with many divisions. This is good. They have broomball tournaments, also good. She signed up. Good, good. She loves broomball. This is a funny broomball story: The team called “Supply Chain” played the team called, “Lawyers.” A guy got his face smashed and cut open across
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Okay, I have a special electronic key for opening electronic lock boxes when I show houses. It’s not that I have any appointments to show houses at the moment–it’d be fun to help a buyer, but never mind. That’s not the point. I put my supra key somewhere for safekeeping. Yah. Smart, I know. So
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