We continued baking this evening, sugar cookies. Tim and Julia wanted to help Kari and me, but at some point, I just couldn’t handle it another second. Julia was touching everything and not taking turns. Tim had the angel cookies pooping on the other cookies. Yeah, that’s fun. (When Little Jay was just about this […]
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It’s been a quiet week, good. Here are a few pictures for fun: We have more baking to do, and frosting, and a big snowstorm is scheduled to hit tonight. Hopefully I’ll be done working this evening before the roads get bad. Then we can just be here and bake cookies all night. I guess
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Here she is. And it’s no secret she has struggled with her nephews. One’s bigger than she is and has a LOT of ideas. When he was a tiny and super-adorable new baby, she was eighteen months old and she’d cling and cry whenever I held him. It was a bit pathetic. I even named
Okay, Julia’s not going to bed. She’s been out a few times—stomach ache, feet itch, covers are tangled. This time Heidi ordered her back to bed. “But I have a question!” “No more questions today. Tomorrow. Go to bed.” But then in a minute Heidi relented and went to find out what the question was.
It snowed all day and is beautiful out tonight, bright pink sky again, muffled air. Something strange happens when it snows and sounds are amplified, like how you can stand on the shore and hear a conversation in a boat way out on the lake? Like that. This picture is disappointing, cheap little camera. Nights
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He started taking trumpet lessons last year from a sweet girl we know. He practiced, and he got better, and this fall, joined the band. Tonight was the first concert, and it was excellent. Plus, he attempted to iron this shirt himself while I was making spaghetti. It was a struggle and Maria helped out.
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that rip on her sleeve? caught it on the upstairs bathroom door hook. it happens. Okay, today we were hearing about a guy who is, well, okay, this isn’t nice…and we kind of had to pry to get at what’s the story. He’s described as a “douche.” (Umm. No comment on that adjective.) He CAN
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Yeah. It’s up. The whole living room is glowy and beautiful. Julia was frustrated by how slow the process is. First a girl must wait for her dad to come home from work. Then the trailer has to be hooked up. The drive is not short. The tree was cut, shaken in the shaker, shoved
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I guess we’re most thankful that Joe and Heidi, and Morgan (the dog,) Rory, and Rufus (the guinea pigs,) escaped the fire last weekend. And we’re grateful for all the other disasters we avoided too, even the ones we were unaware of. The day was bright and cold, the food delicious, and the company easy
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Oh my gosh. Tonight m.c. was here, along with t.c. and l.c. and they ran all over the house playing. John wanted to check out Heidi’s burned house, and he was on solo child care, and coming to the grandparents’ is a good outing. Plus he was delivering Little Jay home to us from college
