Today at lunch we were talking about Heidi when she was little. She couldn’t say lunch, called it, “Hunch.” Dan was five, and he and I thought it was funny. We tried to help her practice: “Heidi say la-la-la-lunch.” She’d lift her chin up and down, carefully pronouncing, “La-la-la-Hunch.” Over and over we did this, […]
It’s a hearty rendition of a song they learned at vacation bible school. I emailed this to Dan and he said, “I didn’t even know you liked country music. What IS this? Something about Jesus?” Tim complained, “That SONG is clogging up my brain.” Yeah. It goes on for like ten verses. This is only
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It’s the first time we’ve been since last year, and it was fun to see old friends and be in the sun on a perfect 85 degree day. This is b.g. with his other grandma. We didn’t know they were going to be there too, but that was a definite bonus, chatting with my son’s
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We made it through the weekend. It was fun, noisy, stressful, intense–special and weird and wonderful. I fried shrimp and we played cards, and it was hot and it stormed. Now we’re home again. Here are a few pictures. These are pics of the soccer game. They don’t include the swearing that occurred. Though there
Okay, yesterday in traffic Maria and I were on a hill, and the city skyline was perfectly framed with all these wild storm clouds. Well, the stop light changed as she fiddled with the camera, and I had to drive down the hill, and this is all we got. I don’t blame her. It was
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a random kid…they’re not sure who he is The kids are playing softball, and last night was picture night. We took them all over there, in their softball shirts, and photos were taken. Seemed fine. Well, this morning I had an email from Tim’s coach, saying pictures were tonight at 7:15. Weird. I emailed him
three sisters These are some of Kirsten’s pics from Memorial Day: a big girl a big girl fishing–this keeps her absorbed for hours a tired boat ride beautiful lydia james and bella bella is as fascinated by frisbee as sam is with fishing swimming Oh, how I love summer. love, Val
the one who is the dad around here, head neatly chopped off. he puts up with this. It was a pretty nice weekend. We went to a family party Saturday, had a very good time. We got to see all the babies of our nieces, and I cannot even describe how lovely that was. Some
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The scary looking caterpillars began hatching today. They were the spiky hair type Tim caught on the patio a few weeks ago. He had five and kept them in two big glass tumblers on the buffet. We let them go in the garden. Kari took pictures. They’re called Mourning Cloak butterflies–something new to us. There
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I haven’t seen this particular cloud type in a long time. I took pictures of them after a storm in 1987. There’s a special name for them. They appear after severe weather. The dangerous weather went around us. We weren’t hit. But at 9 pm, when we came up from the office to put kids
