She loved this children’s area very much. There are little blue frogs in there. Venus Flytrap? Then we went to the tropics room. This was as far as I originally intended to take this trip, figured this would take about 45 min, and that would be great. She’s all interested in that bird on top […]
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I’d been wanting to do this for a while, but had to wait for a warm enough day. Today was the day. But the child was scrappy and feisty, hanging on me a lot with many complaints. I told Kirsten I didn’t know if I could do it by myself if the kid wasn’t a
It was awfully cold. This storm window was broken in an episode of foolishness last summer. Who cares? Well, we should have fixed that storm window. We are grudging against our normal storm windows, disdainful. Well, yeah. They’re doing a lot more than they’re given credit for, witness this frosty mess when a window goes
There were pine needles everywhere. Here’s all the mish-mash of weird Christmas lights wound up to confuse and frustrate us next year. Cords and plug ins, all goofy. I had a tall grandchild climb up onto the cupboard and pull the Santa sleigh back off the wall. All these festive cardboard guys, year after year:
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Our very dead and toasty, crunchy Christmas tree above, and this festive Santa from the 70’s below, something fun from my sweet Grandma: We’ve got your sparkling cider and chocolate cake cooling on the patio. It wasn’t even up to zero all weekend, so this is a very chilly cooler. Aww, now that’s a pretty
It was a great night. I hope you absolutely love being six. Happy Birthday with love forever, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
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This is the little sister. She’s getting more civilized by the day. But apparently there was a situation where she was in possession of her sister’s lip balm. And she rubbed it all over her feet. Okay, that’s not right. Then she complained that her feet were so greasy. Well. We all do have our
It was a lovely post-Christmas week. Kirsten is good. She played board games and had so much fun with her nieces and her little sisters before she had to head home to Florida. Little Franky was so sweet all week. He was a pure pleasure. Checking out Barbieland: Whoops, Maria! Tired Franky: Today was a
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As we have for about ten years or more, we headed to Mark and Barb’s to celebrate Christmas Day. Dan’s child LOVES this party SO MUCH he told his parents he wanted to have his birthday party hosted at Mark and Barb’s. There were video games in the basement and so much laughing. Green powerade
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We hosted Christmas Eve last night, very fun. Jay did a test run on the Swedish Meatballs a couple weeks ago–all good. Here are Jay and my sister’s husband Paul, dressed alike, looking like brothers. Later that night, we had Midnight Santa, also awesome: Little, exhausted Frankie: And then we slept late this Christmas morning
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