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Whee. Love, Val
May 2017
tuesday piano recital
Tonight was Tim’s piano recital, and it was wonderful. The teacher is a sweetheart, and the kids were cute–their hard work is paying off. Tim practices on an old Baldwin organ/electronic piano here. It’s a fancy item a friend left here a long time ago. If she or her kids ever want it, of
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a quiet weekend, monday awards
Sunday we drove up to Jay’s parents and enjoyed my mother in law’s cooking, card games all afternoon, a long walk between the rain, so low-key and lovely. She was as good as an eight month old puppy can be, no trouble at all–lots of sniffing to do. Tonight was Academic Awards. Our girl, Lydia,
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gymnastics program
We headed over there today in the rain for the program. It was fun. They did a great job. It’s a low-key Park and Rec program–no competitions or anything involved or stressful, but over the last two years or so, the progress is amazing. It’s different to see all this in context, rather than the
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things that have been said
Last time we were up at the lake, this child got up at 4:45 am. Heidi was a bit crisp about the whole situation. As the child made demands at breakfast, Heidi snapped, “Just stop it now. I’m not taking demands from terrorists.” A little while later, as she sucked down a cup of coffee,
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graduation weekend!
Maria and Sean in the middle, siblings all around. After the very fine graduation party this babysitting of Little Jay’s bearded dragon was attended to. This guy is just beyond cute So is she. So is her father. Okay, this is a good story. One cousin wanted to steal another’s baby doll, but she screamed,
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kirby kind of friday
She had the idea last night that we should do something fun this morning, so we headed for the park with some kids and we had a great time. Julia and Kirsten made sandwiches before we left, and they were delicious. It was a gorgeous day, 70 degrees, bright sunshine. She fell asleep on the
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a great thursday
We went shopping for flowers this morning, me and her. Before this though, I was dozing on the couch during Curious George. It was my favorite episode where Yellow Hat has poison ivy on his hands and has to give a presentation to scientists about how to use a special shovel. Well I’ve seen it