August 2012

an unexpected day

 I left the kids off at Bible School this morning at our church in the city.    Yesterday I had signed up to hang around for the morning in case they needed help.   The bible lesson was about the parable of the sower throwing seed down–some land on the path, some land on rocks, some in […]

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his parents

I worked a while tonight, so Jay took a few kids by himself up to his parents’ house. They retired many years ago to their lake place  a couple hours north of here. The kids had fun. Here’s Tim and his nephew t.c. overlapping on the knee boards. Good grief. Now they’re apart again. Better.

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her 31st birthday

 Here’s Julia before the party, making cards.  I love this. See her face, spelling names, busy working? And here he comes, dragging his suitcase.  I teased him, “Why you bringing a suitcase to my house?” “Because I am sleeping OVER.”  Yes, indeed.   There’s a lot of laughing down the hall right now, even. She’s sleeping

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