Today was the party for Dan and Alicia’s little girl’s second birthday. The usual crowd was there to celebrate. They always creep soooo close watching the gifts being opened. These guys were happy to see each other. Little Jay enjoyed the kids toys quite a bit, had us all cracking up. This huge purple unicorn […]
Yes, this is kindness happening in another thoroughly tousled room in this house. Julia started music lessons two weeks ago, taking up the trumpet, James’ old one, the one my parents bought him. We had it tuned up for her and it’s exciting to begin. Until it isn’t. Until you’re no good at it and
Friday is my favorite day of the week, all that un-spent weekend potential. Here we have kids working on homework in the kitchen and two girls decorating a cake they baked. They found frosting tubes up in the cupboard and decorated it with blue worms. I would say this was unappetizing, but the cake is
Today we went to the high school to register Tim. Julia was registered for school by mail last week. This morning we went in person to register him. I swear it was the same counselor Heidi had, sweet lady. Everyone was extremely nice to us. All good. Classes chosen, ready for fall. The last
Jay plastered and I painted on Saturday, everything back to new: I still have to paint this in the bathroom tomorrow. We babysat Dan and Alicia’s kids on Monday, and Joe came over too. We were kind of busy chasing after kids, and I didn’t take any pictures. Dan and Alicia stayed for supper and
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She did great in the van, didn’t get sick, hung out quietly. It was the same as we left it. The weather is strange and warm. It was 60 degrees out or warmer. This is northern Wisconsin in February. Very weird. The neighbor’s cat came over and the kids were so happy to see her.
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It was so exciting. He didn’t have any jobs for today, so when we woke up we stayed in bed for a while and watched Nature Cat. They were having a dance party to celebrate the winter solstice, and that show, so bizarre. But no less bizarre than watching the news. Then we went to
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Some kids came to play earlier in the week. The older one had her school cancelled due to some water main problem. That’s fine. She and Julia gave Elin a bath. Here she is trying to brush her afterward. Yeah, it got wilder: And then ended up in a pure ruckus. Later the two babies
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Yes, indeed! Missing a tooth, and yup those are his real eyelashes! Here you are, Buddy, with your special cupcake and shark. This was from Saturday when we were at Dairy Queen: A picture Heidi took at Christmas, very handsome: This is one of my favorite pictures of you–just a big old cold in early
These girls went to Florida this weekend to visit my parents. That’s a picture my mom texted me of the two of them. And a picture Maria sent of the beach. Kirsten is there too with her dogs. I can see it was a beautiful time. So much love, MOM, aka VAL
