our family party
Saturday we had our family Christmas party. This was a pretty loud puppet show. And another Christmas comes to an end. Love you all so, Mom, aka Val, aka Grandma
December 2014
christmas day, 2014
We went to Mark and Barb’s for the usual laid back Christmas Day party. I’m sure it’s not all that laid back for Barb and Mark hosting, but for the rest of us it’s an easy day of eating, cousins playing, a few gifts, more eating. Merry Christmas! Thank you for having us.
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cute instagrams
My mother and p.j. above, and James and Dan’s son below: It was a great night, a wonderful party. Now it’s Friday evening and the groceries are bought and the kitchen floor washed and waxed for the first time in weeks–it is kind of a project. The house is vacuumed and dusted and Kari
lots of christmas pictures
Heidi got back from Mexico in the afternoon and came for her kid. These guys were all we had here at home heading to church with us. Little Jay has his own home now, and James had to work in the afternoon. I took Little Jay his stocking so he could do Christmas morning at
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found in my purse
Yes, this. I have no idea who Derrick Moore is. I’m aware of Jesus Christ. (Himself, no less.) And some bored-in-church child is contributing in the amount of 2 1/2 euro. Interesting. It also caused a great amount of laughter tonight while I was working. I found it as I was looking for a
all the buddies, tonight in the room
I love you all so dearly. Love Val, aka MOM
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kirby’s instagram from today
These are great, Kirsten. love, Mom
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cooky night
We got it done, baked eight batches of sugar cookies. Maria rolled dough and cut. I ran the oven. It was a fairly big mess, but we expected that and it wasn’t a big deal. Okay, okay, okay. The first rule of cooky decorating is NO LICKING ANYTHING. Not the bottles of sprinkles, not your
more christmas to cram into one month
We’re still working on the cookies. Tomorrow we’re baking sugar cookies. Anyone who wants to be involved is welcome. Today was the preschool Christmas program for this guy: He’s annoyed because that jingle bell in his hand isn’t jingling. He traded it for another one. He was so excited about the program he could hardly
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another occasion or two
This morning was the preschool program. That’s her in the black velvet dress in the lower right corner. It was great. Tonight was James and Lydia’s band concert. That’s her in the middle. That’s him. Hey, I know those guys: This little girl was seated ahead of us and kept Julie’s baby entertained. Julie and
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