We had a sweet, sweet day yesterday with mr. b.g. Yeah, this guy: Tuesday night Julia hollered when she heard he was coming, “Noooooo!!!!! He hogs my moooothhherrr!” Good grief, Julia. You have to pull it together. She was as sweet as candy to him all day long–she always is. However, when he took a […]
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Okay, dumb story time! Kirsten, our recent graduate of the university, with her very own double major in economics and marketing communications (evidence she’s bright) wins the award for this week. Did she think the marines were recruiting her mother? Nope. Did she eat dog treats by mistake? Nope. The air in her house is
Okay, this website has sucked up numerous hours in the last few days: http://hookedonhouses.net/ I love it, get lost wandering around in it, forget all about the things I’m supposed to be doing. I don’t care about that cowboy dude’s house on the main page. It’s the TV and Movie Houses that I can’t stop
Tonight I noticed a phone message out in the kitchen, near the old rotary phone, and I couldn’t really read it. I asked who wrote it and what it was. Little Jay said, “That’s a phone message for Dad. Sergeant Brask from the army called.” I said, “Sergeant Brask? Called for Dad?” “Well, yeah. They
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Tonight we were down in the office, and Tim and Julia were dropping Fisher Price people and Polly Pockets through an old hole in the corner of the living room floor where a radiator pipe once was— the one that’s right over Jay’s desk. As we tried to work, toys rained down. Finally she came
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this picture has nothing to do with anything, but it’s -5 today and i like looking at it. i found it yesterday while cleaning the office–nice surprise. This is the note I sent to my friends on Saturday night. They assure me he’s normal. He probably is. I mean, I think so too, but my
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Okay, tonight… this is another DUMB story…. (it’s that round container, right in the front) As John and his family were preparing to leave, Big Jay mentioned to t.c. would he like to give Sam a dog treat? He held out the clear plastic container with the dog treats in it, and the child popped
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Okay, tonight we were down in the office working, and far away, we could hear a child’s frightened voice hollering, “Dad! Daaad! Dad!” We ran. The possibilities are infinite. All the commotion was in the family room, in the bathroom specifically. We could hear water pouring, and sure enough the radiator was spraying hot water
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di·shev·eled or di·shev·elled (d -sh v ld) adj. 1. Being in loose disarray; unkempt, as hair or clothing. 2. Marked by disorder; untidy: a disheveled pile of books on the library table. Yeah, well, that’s this house tonight, even with little glowing candle lights in all the windows. It looks so pretty, who knows what
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the dual action light sabre!! thank you! grandma and grandpa!! Tonight we and all our grown kids enjoyed dinner at a nearby restaurant–John and Dannell’s Christmas gift to us. It was lovely. It’s a lumpy transition from Christmas into 2010… and yet our wonderful old friends will be here on New Year’s Day to celebrate,
