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3-17-16

This is how we’re living today.  This little girl happened to go down to the basement and asked me about the candy all over. Then she found the note. It was the Leprechauns. They left a rude note, but they enjoyed the candy. It was thrown far and wide. Starbursts may be being found for

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weekend in march

 This one ended up at urgent care today, who sent us to the ER.  Glomerulonephritis, we are told.  She appeared yesterday with a rash, which was worse today. She had antibiotics all week for strep throat, now this.  Well, they gave her fluids and a lot of blood samples were taken.   She’s okay.  Her

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vacuuming

So the child was asked to stop flapping around in the kitchen and go vacuum the family room. She was not thrilled, but whatever. I glanced into the family room, and this is what she was using to vacuum. No canister. No suction. Girlfriend!  Hello! THEN she was mad she had to do it over.

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five years

 Five years ago p.j. was born. Yesterday was a big, wild party. Five years of you, Beautiful Girl? Life before you is hard to imagine.  Who could have imagined life held YOU? You make everything better, funnier, more interesting, more fun. Happy Birthday, Darling. Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

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hey, march!

 Welcome, honey!  I am so glad to see you. Yesterday I took down the dusty bedroom curtains and threw them in the wash. Then I observed the condition of the window sill and edges of the window panes.  They’re normally behind the curtains and easy to ignore. But they’re also original to the house, been

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first birthday

 There was a big party at Dan and Alicia’s for this baby girl, turning one.  There was this giant pink cake and two excited brothers.  The younger brother was up at 6 am, went and woke up his mom to tell her about the party decorations he discovered in the morning. The ones she put

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