We made it to the hotel, took the bus to Walmart to buy some groceries, and it was a beautiful evening, listening to the ocean, warm breeze blowing. This morning was bright and fresh. I miss you guys, and I’m actually pretty glad you didn’t have school today so you could spend a day just […]
Yes, we see her opinion of pep band. She was at a hockey game, long, cold, and boring, and she was CRACKING UP, and freezing her hinder off. He, that guy in the photo below, went to fetch her, and his phone was about blowing up with desperate texts and messages he could not answer
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Turned five years old this fall. I realized it tonight. Five years? I opened a Picassa web album and randomly clicked on photos in a file. There are a lot of photos and alot of files. I did not attempt to get a picture of everyone or everything, just want to tell you all that
We gathered at Dan and Alicia’s to celebrate the Little Guy’s birthday. Kids were very wound up. This is where I intervened, “No more jumping on the furniture!” They all looked at me like I’m crazy and did kind of half stop doing it. Happy Birthday, Mister! They have some very realistic looking fake food
three years old, and a superb new year’s eve party Read More »
Yeah, it was -6 degrees F when I received notice from Alicia that they were taking the kids swimming for the Little Guy’s birthday, if we wanted to come too. This was yesterday evening–thank you for almost 24 hours notice to psych up–as much as the kids LOVE all this, I detest being cold and
Santa’s going away this weekend at some point. Back into the box. The tree was so crispy two nights ago that I didn’t want the lights turned on anymore, and yesterday morning it had to come down. We took off all the ornaments and lights and sorted them into the right boxes. Then Jay came
the end of the year Read More »
Saturday we had our family Christmas party. This was a pretty loud puppet show. And another Christmas comes to an end. Love you all so, Mom, aka Val, aka Grandma
We went to Mark and Barb’s for the usual laid back Christmas Day party. I’m sure it’s not all that laid back for Barb and Mark hosting, but for the rest of us it’s an easy day of eating, cousins playing, a few gifts, more eating. Merry Christmas! Thank you for having us.
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My mother and p.j. above, and James and Dan’s son below: It was a great night, a wonderful party. Now it’s Friday evening and the groceries are bought and the kitchen floor washed and waxed for the first time in weeks–it is kind of a project. The house is vacuumed and dusted and Kari
Heidi got back from Mexico in the afternoon and came for her kid. These guys were all we had here at home heading to church with us. Little Jay has his own home now, and James had to work in the afternoon. I took Little Jay his stocking so he could do Christmas morning at
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