They’re always a milestone. Today was Kari, aka Lydia’s first day of school. (I haven’t asked her what name she’s going by at school. I think probably Lydia.) She’s beginning Grade 9 and that’s when the other kids also headed off to the big public high school not that far from here. (John demanded to go. He […]
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There was lots of goofing around. This car causes more fights than anything else. They love it, but they fight. The eagle: It was a nice weekend, lots of noise and food, a little fishing. Hello, September. It’s going to be fun to see what’s next. love, Val
We had a bunch of $1 kites, purchased a long time ago and thrown in a closet. There were a couple other fancier ones too. The breeze was not as steady as it seemed, and the trees around the field made some odd dead zones in the air current. But it was fun. That kite actually
Summer went by so fast again. Tuesday James goes back to school and the other guy leaves this week for his private school in Connecticut. It’s fine. Sad, but fine. The weeks fly past until the holidays. There they are looking cool, him in the hat he knit himself, and James in
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The proud child with the cake she and her dad baked. It was a great day. We got food and went to the park for lunch. We chose a park close to work, so Kirsten could come too. Heidi if anyone would have told me when you were little that you would grow up to
These are from a long time ago. You were an extremely beautiful baby, and also good natured. You hardly ever cried, and it’s funny but your efforts to not cry would kind of break my heart. The little lip. Me? Gone. One night I was sitting in our bed feeding you in the middle of
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Here’s an uncle and his nephew. The t.c. person, the nephew was SO excited about this gift he could not wait to give it to Tim. Lots of the pictures are blurry, like this one of Heidi: Here’s my mom. She agreed to cooperate for exactly ONE picture, and even that wasn’t certain. Yes, my
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Okay, this is my favorite picture of Lydia during the last year or so and definitely a favorite even over her lifetime. Heather took this picture last spring and everything about it is perfect. Heather is intuitive and understated, and talented. And this little girl is going to school in two weeks. Grade 9 begins,
He is, so we had a party last night. It was a beautiful, hot day, just like the day he was born. We were mostly outside because it was just too stuffy inside the house. The new bike: The big, fat chocolate cake: I thought about buying a cake, skip running the oven, but it
