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 Dan texted me yesterday about getting together today. Supper it was.  These two guys were far more interested in Legos and the Scooby Doo movie they could watch on my parents old TV down there. Here they are eating orange ice cream pops. Dan found the puzzle Kirsten and the kids have been working on.

 The warm weather last weekend inspired us to go ahead and make a trip up there to get the water on and drag up all the blankets and sheets and stuff.  We can’t leave it there because we don’t trust the mice. (The lake was still frozen.)  We don’t trust the mice for a reason:

Yesterday Dannell called, kind of apologetic.  Could we watch the little guy today? Yes! They think a kid like this is a burden on me.   Well, he’s not. The little girl was going to stay home today, but there’s a lot of stress going on in this house at the moment and one thing

 It was.   We went to my parents for lunch and ate chicken noodle casserole.   Alicia was in ht\the neighborhood, picking b.g. up from preschool, so she joined us. That baby girl is growing!  Lunch, again with a fair amount of butt talk. I know.  Kids never change.  My mother, who always was the

So it’s tough sewing curtains.  First you have to have enough fabric, and drag out the sewing machine and ironing board. These are the old curtains over the sink.  The ones over the dryer actually have holes in them. This is not an optional decision.  But I sewed em, and don’t like em! I’m used

 These new babies were there. We agreed it’s not easy to get a good photo of a newborn. We tried. This was a great day.  love, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody