Baptism went well. Their pastor is quite lovely. Her sermon was riveting and insightful, and full of that very important challenge to stop keeping score on each other, to simply go ahead and freely love. This baptism of a confused two year old and her baby sister was accomplished with little drama and a lot […]
I bought this guy that fastens to the outside door lights for $3.99. I only bought one, not sure how it would work. Well, it was simple and fun, and I might need two more. She’s here for a sleepover, beautiful child with her dearly beloved tablet. When we first painted this room this shade
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It’s already starting to happen–fall colors starting. She was left here to get babysat for a couple hours. She found this container of rice Julia was using to dry her cell phone after it FELL IN THE LAKE on Saturday. Good LOR-ed. Julia jumped right in the lake to save it, but why was it
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Heidi felt terrible on Monday, which was unfortunate. We still had a good time hanging out with these two girls. On Tuesday, the roof crew we’ve been waiting for since June appeared and replaced the roof. We had hail damage in June, and our insurance company sent a check to replace the roof. Tuesday, apparently
It was very quiet at the lake. None of the neighbors were they or any of the other kids. In fact, Jay was driving with Kirsten back to Florida so he wasn’t even there. He’s flying back. I can pick him up from the airport shortly. Little bits of fall are starting to appear.
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The kids complained when they heard we were going to Como Zoo without them. So when we picked them up, Kirsten and I dragged them to the city to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. They were not all that enthusiastic. I never knew this was a fountain. Water sprays out of the cherry stem and courses
It was a gorgeous day, breezy and soft, 80 degrees of perfection. Birds The old 1936 zoo building where they had animals in small cages when I was a child. The hyenas looked pitiful. That’s going too far. They don’t even have hyenas now. And the old tortoises we used to be able to sit
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It was a great birthday party for a great kid. They had a friends party in the morning and rented the bounce house for that, and left it up for the COUSINS to go nuts all evening. This is an amazing plant. We also admired the sunflower which may or may not ever bloom. It
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Kirsten has been here all week from Florida, and it’s been very fun. I took a few days of vacation at work, and it ended up being the best decision ever. Now it turns out Kirsten can’t actually leave because her community is under evacuation from Hurricane Irma. It’s involves some inconvenience for her,
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We took this little child on a boat ride for fun, and partly to get her out of Heidi’s hair while she was packing. She likes boat rides. The other child came along and we would have taken her alone, but she wanted her dad along too. Cool. What I did not expect was the
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