6-11-16, part 2
Love, Mom, aka Grandma
June 2016
6-11-16
Saturday was perfectly gorgeous. This little twerp posed for a picture. He looks so much like Dannell’s dad it cracks me up. These road crossing signs were purchased at Fleet Farm last week. We put one at each end of the road where the series of cabins starts and ends. We could hardly believe how
thirty-seven years of john
By surprise, we got to spend the whole day with you, and it was a summer day about as perfect as they ever are, hot sun, fresh breeze, water crisp and blue. This is a storyline happening here where the kid in the blue shirt is instructing the other child about “Fart Power,” and did
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beautiful june
A gorgeous, magenta peony, and a luscious baby girl: A longer range view of the patio: This lily blooms once a year, a gorgeous pale bloom. Lookin’ good, You. Irises as far as the eye can see. If you want any, come over, we’ll dig you up a bucket. And that is the end of
sweet
Alicia sent me this picture of them and it’s very sweet. Alicia and I are fond of each other, truly. Plus, I love my grandchildren in a fierce, fiery way. And yet it’s not a lie that one of the things I love about these kid-in-laws is our shared affection for my children. The test
the soul of? and who is supposedly sick?
Last night I heard from Dan, asking if I could keep this kid who didn’t feel all that great yesterday. Yeah, sure. As long as he isn’t actively puking or exhibiting some other alarming symptom, that’s fine. He recovered nicely overnight. At one point during the day I saw him outside with the rest of
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imagine
This is a picture of me, taken the day we closed on the cabin, four days before Julia was born. This was a couple weeks later, Julia in my arms, Kari beside. This was taken a few days ago, the grandkids at the lake: The little trio of little sisters: If anyone would have told
being uncles and aunties
They complain about how loud these little people are. True, they’re very loud. Back in the day, the aunties and uncles weren’t necessarily all that quiet either. When I was a little child, my mom’s sisters and brother were young teenagers, and it was a lot of fun being the niece in that situation. One
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jet ski rides
The boat never got put in–too much rain. But the thrill-seekers were not disappointed. Dan’s oldest kid LOVED being raced around the lake with John, urged him to go faster, cut tighter corners. love, Mom
down home
My parents came to hang out with us for the afternoon on Saturday. It was lovely having them with us, good food, crazy kids, lots of energy. My mom’s sister and her family were staying at the resort next door, so we walked over and spent an hour with them on lawn chairs perched on