Okay, so this morning, I wandered upstairs while everyone was still sleeping, and found this note on the bathroom door. Whaaaat? Okay this: Julia has a subscription to a fan magazine, a birthday gift years in a row from my sister Pam and her family–truly a spectacular gift. But they have way too many posters […]
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These are her socks. She doesn’t leave on socks for more than a minute–then they go flying to wherever. Even -15 F, no socks. Christmas Eve she wouldn’t put her socks back on to come up from the playroom to the church service, marched up all the stairs and over the icy tile in her bare feet. Very
Here you are with your enormous pile of gifts. ( Aeropostale is closing the location near us and everything there was so inexpensive, I bought a whole heap.) Your enthusiasm about this random mountain of clothes made me so happy. Here’s a picture I love. I peeked in the doorway and saw my dad helping you
This weekend it will be 25 below. What? It was so cold there was a power failure in the suburb where the kids’ swimming lessons were supposed to start tonight. Four thousand people don’t have power, including the swimming school. No power usually = no heat. That’s not right. It’s all kinds of wrong. That’s
You were as pretty a baby as there ever was, just like a big, fancy doll. Here are a couple pictures from those months when we babysat you both. Oh my goodness. And now, you so big, Mr. Luminous, talking and telling jokes, jumping high in the air, telling stories. photo by Lisa K Awww,
Our friend is the guy in front in the goggles. He normally spends New Year’s Eve with us, but this year he stayed over on Sunday night instead. The other guy is t.c., who happened to call on the phone. I teased him, “Yeah, we’re having a sleepover. You should come too.” His parents
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That’s smiling nice for ya. She smiled nice. Okay, better. He also does his drunken communion thing, “Blud of Chrisst, shad fer ya.” It’s real uplifting. Okay, over the next couple hours the gift pile GREW. And there was a feast. Back in the day, we chose an alternate date for our family Christmas party
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For many years now, we have spent Christmas Day with Mark and Barb and Jay’s parents. It’s a very laid back good time, gifts for the children, lots to eat. That’s Barb there, quite the fabulous cook. Besides the cooking, she’s –well, I’ve told Mark best thing he ever did was marry her. The usual rowdies
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This is from the afternoon before. This kid is SO EXCITED she’s been driving me nuts for three days. This one is much more chill. Waiting for church–we were early because the guys had to usher. She’s buried in the closet, but she’s happy there. Finally we could go upstairs. It was beautiful, Christmas story,
