These guys are so advanced they can carve pumpkins without me now. Look out, People. Your kids will grow up on you. So then we put them outside again where it is cold for refrigeration purposes. Julia’s pumpkin was so rotten it was nasty and slimy. We threw it away and she chose another. (We […]
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Lydia, aka Kari, was Confirmed this weekend. In some circles it’s called Affirmation of Baptism–where a child who received infant baptism is now old enough to say, “Yeah, I’m in.” So this was the day. There were numerous ceremonial gestures at church, which were sweet and important, and our family was all there, and it was
My friend Renee is a fairly talented photographer and she took so many pictures while she was here, of trees and plants and things around this house like the doorknobs and clutter and trinkets, and then last was this one. I laughed right out loud. That’s me conducting some kind of real estate business the
Yeah, it’s today. We started out with a little, “Let’s have supper,” get together, that bloomed into a huge family thing with rowdy kids in costumes with laser swords and unbelievable racket. That’s her above, in my sister’s lap, Heidi on her knee. I love how Pam’s own baby is swimming over to them. That’s
James was invited last year as a junior in high school, but that bout with mono took him out and messed up the whole thing. As a senior? He’s well. He chose his closest friend’s mother as his mentor. She works hard for numerous causes and people, all of them working to bring people together and
One card poker–the child is so good at this game, and loved it so much. Dannell’s grandparents are where this originated. It’s one of the few games that adults and kids are on equal ground. The dock came out and the young guys put on the waders and did the job. We’re really to the
It’s like a holiday here. We go with it. And our friends were here, and we had a great time. And this guy was there. I haven’t hugged him in a long time–could be a couple weeks. It was fun to be together with him and his brothers too. p.j. and l.c. playing a bit
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And then the week was not boring anymore. Fun, fun. love you girls so, Val, aka Mom, aka Grandma
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It is, totally boring, nothing but work. The job is finished on the side of the house–good for another twenty years. The kids helped take down the scaffolding. This scaffolding was given to Jay by a friend of his parents, quite a long time ago. It’s come in very handy living here. There’s also something
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