I don’t even know, summa sum laude? magna cum laude. She done real good. That is my dad, and brother, and My Sweetie above. That’s the graduate’s dad below, my fine patient brother-in-law who has loved us and put up with all our kids for like deades now–that’s him in the blue shirt. Awww, and […]
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It was a day. A day of babies on the patio. These are the Sponge Bob cheesy crackers. Absorbent and yellow and pourous is he. There’s the tiny guy, t.g., propped up in the swing. He’s very bald. I also caught him scratching his round, white, satiny dome when I went to fetch him from
Yeah, Mother’s Day was great. Heidi and Joe cooked, and Jay and Alicia, John and Dannell and Kirsten, and it was awesome. Then we drove out to Wisconsin to visit my mother’s mom, the sole remaining member of that generation. Even with her bad heart, she’s as fearless, beautiful, and sweet as ever. And she
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Not a lot to say. It’s been a very quiet week. Tim and Julia have been sick with fevers. We’re working a lot. They lie on the couch and take ibuprofen at intervals. But not those two. They have been healthy. Here she’s put her babies to bed in the little bed my mother bought
Yeah, that’s her, hugging her youngest great-grandchild, not looking eighty in the least. Here are a couple other characters: That’s my sister in law in the picture below, hugging my grandson . I love her so much. Best thing my brother in law ever did was marry her, and that’s their daughter beside her. Okay,
This party was my friend Jody’s idea, inspired by the hats. We made sandwiches, little fancy ones cut out with cooky cutters, no crusts. There were cucumber sandwiches, and egg salad, and we had a lot of fun doing it at Lorene’s the night before. She brought all her dozens of fancy antique tea cups.
And I’m going to bed, but this picture found on my camera tonight made me laugh right out loud. Look at that baby! Oh. Oh my gosh, he’s hilarious. Every other darn thing can wait until the morning, but not that face. love you, Grandma
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Okay tonight? Kirsten’s dog was up in James’ room and ate a rotten Easter egg she found. Hello! Easter was a MONTH AGO. Kirsten called the emergency vet and was told she should induce vomiting, and the method for doing so, of which we had nothing–no hydrogen peroxide, and no turkey baster. Heidi has both,
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That’s her. In the last weeks, homeschool has taken another turn, as it does, as life evolves. And yet the child desires an education, so she’s working on it. She’s been doing reports on things, looking up facts, printing out photos. She did a report on a creature called an Aye Aye, and on a
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