It’s his birthday, this awesome guy! Tomorrow is the most magnificent party, but today’s a great day. I called him on the phone and yelled, “It’s your birthday!” He said, “Yeah!” I said, “You’re four years old!” He paused, “How did YOU know?” Oh my. I said, “I remember when you were born. I held […]
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Okay, this is a patient man. He doesn’t get excited about much, never has. It’s one of the reasons he and Heidi are married. They get each other. It works. He said to let the puppy sleep in the bed with them because he “doesn’t like crying.” He lets the guinea pigs crawl on his
Okay, Sunday night was a little chaotic. Dan and Alicia and b.g. came for supper and it was pretty fun. The little guy eats pulverized pears now, and he loved them. Shortly he grabbed the bowl and took control of the whole sticky situation, but Alicia gracefully extracted the dish and kept going. He smiled
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but will these Olympics EVER END?? Ugh. I can’t take it. I just want to watch Saturday Night Live in peace. But no. We’re babysitting the grand-dog tonight. She’s growing fast and getting sassy. She wants to engage Sidney in some kind of horseplay, but Sidney says that’s absolutely out of the question. Here’s a
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Julia and I got in an argument in the car. So ridiculous. It disintegrated to the point… well I told her she was wrong and stop saying things that aren’t true. She said, “I can still THINK it.” I forbid her: “No, you can’t. You stop thinking things that are wrong.” Get this: We were
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The handle on the back door is broken again. We have to replace it about once a year because that door takes a terrible beating. It’s inherent in life with a newfoundland in the house. She barges her big self into the door went she’s trying to get out, and even worse is when she’s
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We had t.c. sleep over last night. He called on Friday night and asked, “Gramma! Can I sleep over at your house?” Absolutely. We had a great time, lots of running around with Aunt Julia and Uncle Tim, much laughing, a fair amount of outrageous racket. It was good. They watched a movie called Space
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Okay, see this picture? In the background is a painting Heidi did for an art class at the university. It’s a self-portrait, but that’s probably obvious. Anyway, when she brought it home at the end of the semester, she said to take down the picture that’s usually over the fireplace and put up her painting
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Late this afternoon Jay and I were lying on our bed. He was trying to get up the ambition to go put in a new water heater for someone, and I was trying to coax him to take a nap first. (I know, I know, nothing gets done by sleeping.) Anyway, while sprawled out there,
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