Heidi brought you home from college just about fourteen years ago. You never left–you’ve stayed right here in this family with all of us. Here’s a pretty picture from nine years ago: Thanks for all the ways you make this family better–your patience and sense of humor, the ways you are helpful and also for […]
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You, the much awaited little sister, born today. We all are so happy you’re here. This big sister is asleep in a nest beside us, and another big sister is just upstairs. Your oldest sister is at your own house, staying with Aunt Kirsten. We are so excited to meet you, Peanut. Love, Grandma and
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We all headed out into this beautiful morning. Took the dogs with us because they like to go too. This dog ate a ton of Kirsten’s dogs’ food. She’s so skinny and nitpicky about food, we didn’t stop her. Eat, Girl! Well. She got an upset stomach from all that darn dog food, and yeah.
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Julia said the game was a living hell. Well. They were a little squirrely. She wanted me to help her play, so I did. I read her everything because she is only three, but she made all the decisions and she WON. She won! She made some very questionable choices and I wondered if she
This is the kid who did NOT want to go on this stupid slide. While we walked over to it, he was bitching mightily to Jay about how he wanted to go to the corn maze, but had to do THIS first and WHY? (He’s a talented ranter.) “They’ll probably want to go down it
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We took the tractor ride through the woods. When the driver came to collect our payment tokens, we had none. We didn’t realize we had to pre-pay, or even pay at all. Jay said we’d pay when we left, which we did, but he just waved us through. It was flowing landscape of ripe pumpkins:
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We headed to the pumpkin patch in the afternoon. This is only about two miles away, and it’s kind of awesome. We never even knew about it until a couple years ago. This thing launches corn cobs Kirsten got one through the tire–probably the only person I know who has. They made a decent attempt
After breakfast and getting everyone dressed, the technology was done. Time to find something to do. I pointed out the bookcase, the cabinet full of art supplies. Boring. I mentioned the front closet, the bins of legos, the croquet set. “Go look and see.” No. It’s all boring. Well. I like making collages. We have
Dan and Alicia had something going on Saturday and asked us to babysit. We were hoping to go to the lake, and they agreed we could taken them with us. That little girl p.j. loves to party with her cousins, so she came too. We had a great time. They were up early, but their
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