Yeah, some kids were taking pictures. She’s been wearing these glasses for several days. Sometimes she drives me nuts with her chattering, but she’s like sunshine, has one of those sunny personalities with all kinds of observations and ideas. And lots of wild, giddy laughter–always the loud, squealy laughing. When I get to living too […]
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This guy came to visit for a while. And the answer is yes, I did grab him tight and kiss those luscious cheeks. I spoke to him of his gorgeousness. He didn’t complain. Sam was so happy to see him–she threw herself down right next to him and sniffed his toes. Later this: And
We spent the weekend at my parents’ place in Wisconsin. These are pictures from the fashion show, modeling the dress up clothes. He was the judge of the fashion show. I asked what his credentials were. No answer was forthcoming. That’s my grandma. Today was her 90th birthday party. She wasn’t sure what would qualify
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James was voted Tenth Trade Homecoming King, so we had to head over to the gym for this event. She’s very sweet and also friendly to the little kids. Wheee. Onward. James? This is a lovely honor, granted I’m about 100% sure because you are kind. Kindness = Everything. love you so, Mom and
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Julia and Tim are both writing this year, nice surprise. I have no idea when this happened exactly, but it did. Anyway, today Julia wrote extensive lists (invented spelling included) of how to take care of p.j. properly: She did have to help translate some of this. Mrot is is Julia’s backward way of saying
This hill was way more fun leaving the zoo. What a great day. love, Val
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There was road construction on the way and a detour and gosh it took a long time to get there. First thing we did was go find FOOD. The waffle fries are truly amazing, and eating them outside in the breeze, perfect. When I was a kid the animals used to sit in little cement
Okay, after the kids took their baths, this is what I found in the bathroom. It is the bath mat. Stuck to the wall. Why? We don’t know. I took a picture as more evidence kids are crazy. We worked on collages. That’s Julia posing with ours. Hers is the top one. Mine is below
We haven’t done this in a while. They caught a lot of weeds. My mother in law calls it salad. Back in the day we used to do a lot of trolling at their place up north. My brother in law could only stand it for so long and then he’d have us reel in
So far things are going well. They’ve been putting in time on some work, and have both surged ahead in math over the summer–no idea why. And reading was much improved and there’s some actual writing going on–not just him painstakingly putting down each letter as I tell him. And the weather was beautiful, so
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