Today at the office they gave me the one year award and the owner said after the meeting he’d take me to the wine cellar to make a selection. I thought he was joking. After the meeting he called me to his office and said that thing about the wine cellar again. I told him […]
We put Tim and Julia to bed a while ago. She has her very own bed upstairs in the room she shares with Lydia (aka Kari.) She’s got the flowered sheets, teddy bears, etc. and so on. But she insists on still sleeping with Tim. Earlier I heard Jay yelling, “JUST GET IN BED ALREADY!”
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“The reason I chose my grandma for my National Honor Society mentor is because she is one of the kindest people I have ever met. She has taught me to work hard, and to be kind, honest, and generous, and has always believed in me no matter what. She would do anything she possibly could
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Julia’s learning the alphabet in preschool, and a note came home that she should bring something that starts with V for show and tell. Wow, okay. She said she wanted to bring vegetable oil. I thought that was not the best idea, potentially really messy, and I told her this. She said she’d leave the
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Maria reading with Sidney Oh my gosh. Tonight Kirsten came over to keep Maria company and hold down the fort while we were at Jay’s National Honor Society thing. Late in the evening, as the baths progressed, and Kirsten and I were dealing with the kids and the house winding down for the evening, Kari
Yesterday, late afternoon I mowed the lawn and cleaned up the front yard. It was really dusty around the pine trees. I had pine junk stuck in my hair, a chunk of flesh missing from my thumb knuckle, dirt around my ankles above the shoes, a just filthy. I came in, and after I put
A photo from 20 years ago, our first year of homeschool: Dan is the upside down one. John’s in the red shirt. Heidi’s grinning, and Kirsten is the tiny pipsqueak. Their dad is the one cleaning guts from a pumpkin. (Can you believe that linoleum?? Holy cow. It came with the house.) I thought I
We watched little BG last night while Dan and Alicia went to a party. Playing with Auntie Julia He was restless and not sure where he was, I think, without his mom and dad. Big Jay walked him around for a while, and he was so quiet cuddled on Grandpa’s chest. I defrosted a couple
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Okay, so up at Poor Richard’s Antiques was this nasty old taxidermy bobcat. Missing an ear, moth-eaten, sitting on a shelf out back year after year, and Lydia was fascinated by it, liked to look it, talk about it, wanted to buy it. It was $60 and NO we were not buying it! Not even
My parents and Tim at the wedding Out in Wisconsin, my dad has these big snap traps–for trapping chipmunks, I’m told. (He had some chipmunks in a live trap and let them go a few miles away, so what this big Tom and Jerry snap trap was all about, I’m not sure.) But Tim tripped
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