Starting at the very beginning of the day, she wouldn’t let her mom change her diaper. Apparently the child planned to take care of it herself later because I found her in the family room, soggy overnight diaper tossed to the side and she was trying to get a new diaper fastened. She had the […]
And hard to get a good picture of it! It’s cold here today, maybe about ten degrees with a sharp wind. My bare hands were burning while I carried in the groceries late tonight, and the storm door glass was all frosted. But this little plant I bought at the grocery store is liking life
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It was a beautiful night, snow falling– looked like a Christmas card. Here he is, our January guy. Dog passing through– The girls baked these special cupcakes for Saturday night–Reese’s peanut butter cups were involved. They did good. These two on Sunday afternoon: My parents were here. John and Dannell could not be because they
a cute picture from October My grandma died in December, and my grandpa died in April a few years back. So now the house is sold and mostly empty. Thursday we went there to help empty the second floor of the house, to get all the last remnants down the skinny, steep stairway, and
After the trains, we had lunch at the playland. It’s all hard surfaces and hyper kids prone to shrieking. It was fun to watch them play though. A little screaming never hurt anyone. And I got pictures of all my little boys: That one is getting cooled off by his mom rubbing ice water in
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Saturday morning Dan had the idea to meet at the Model Train Museum. The building it’s in is cool, used to be a train station. On to the models: I asked John, “Why do I have so many pictures of you yawning?” He said, “I don’t know, Mother.” Oh my. What a great morning. love,
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Our house has two basements. One is the old cellar basement under the main part of the house. It’s small–there are two good sized crawl spaces under the house too. That’s where the office is. The other basement is the big room under the family room. It’s not cellar-y at all. The floor is heated
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Okay these are the three guys I encountered in the room upstairs. This picture is from a few years ago, but it’s a cute picture of just them together. Up in the room, I asked about Little Jay’s work schedule and then before I departed, said to Tim, “I gotta kiss you ’cause you’re so
We had these cute brothers here for supper on a Thursday night. When Jay heard a lot of people were coming for supper, he doubled the recipe. It was about perfect, just about right for fifteen people, though some of the little ones don’t eat very much, some of the big ones make up for
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Today I was working on fourth quarter and some year end tax filings, and the W2s. Julia was bored, kept on aggravating the other kids and also me. Finally I told her to go get the drawing book I bought at Costco last week. It kept her busy for a long time. It gives line
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