January 2019

the weekend

 Jay made it to some basketball games, enjoyed himself thoroughly.  Kid basketball never changes, and for that we’re kind of grateful. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and a  bunch of kids are coming here to be babysat, so I stopped at Michael’s for some craft supplies, paints and stickers, sun catchers, markers.  It […]

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decisions made

 This morning Heather came and stayed with the girls while I drove to St. Paul to get signatures on a real estate offer. Then we went to my office to drop off the check from yesterday’s closing.   My sales manager and his wife are sweet, welcomed the kids. We were only there a minute. After

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mid-january

 Cleaning the basement–downsizing mittens and snow clothes again.   I’ve done this before, sent all the kid sized snow pants to Alicia, sent away mittens and hats. Having so many kids, we had accumulated a shocking amount of snow clothes. Now we’re down to this little tiny mitten box.  Cute hat and scarf sets, but also

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of course

Today James and Kari were having a tea party with these two little girls, and was interesting, but also fun. Then all at once? Elin threw up. Yes, on the rug, right beside the tea party. And then, as if this isn’t bad enough? Maria’s puppy ate it. !!!! I texted Maria just because I

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a fine wednesday

 Some friends gave us this dresser they didn’t need anymore, so it has taken up a home in the family room.  Someday we’ll furnish this room properly, but for now, it’s working great. Today we went to my parents for lunch.  Kari and James will be back to college shortly. Winter break is wrapping up,

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a tough week

All that spaceship gear on her head is just monitoring equipment, ready to observe any seizure activity.  There were seizures earlier in the week, quite terrifying, but in between she was wiggly and cute and alert. Tests were run. Her nurses and doctors are so responsive and caring.  They discontinued one medication and started anti-seizure

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nye, all about you

 Yeah, born on New Year’s Eve, this is your own personal holiday.  Gifts, close-crowding cousins:  Cake time! Dad’s such a baker:  Aww, you.  What a great New Year’s Eve.  Today was New Year’s Day and we had a meal here too.  I ran in my bedroom to grab something and there was this cutie asleep.

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