The warnings went on all week about it. Schools closed, announcing on early in the week about the dread heading for us. Bah. Perfectly ordinary snowfall. I mean, it was fine they cancelled everything and prepared. It sure made those couple days much easier to manage overall, but hardly the storm of the century they […]
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All the kids were off school for Presidents Day so Heidi gathered them up and they hung out here. They were a little bored, set up a game in the kitchen where they pretended they were running a drive through, and they passed out diet coke and chow mein noodles and Pringles chips. Whatever passes
Pictures loaded from the end to the beginning. This is the end, first kid asleep, magic bathrobe at work. We made beds on the couch and on the floor. Something weird is happening with the bananas, and a lot of weird things went on with that toilet game on the kitchen table. I heard
She’s had this little lump on her eyelid for about a year and it had to finally come off. Twelve hundred dollars. I teased that I could do it with a nail clipper, but that’s not true. Anyway. She’s doing well. Onward Love, Val
What a great birthday!! Beautiful child Still the same I hope this is the best year yet. Lucky us, having you. Happy Birthday, with love for always, Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
Julia got tired of these guinea pigs in her room for a number of reasons. The hay and pine have their own little farm odor. They take up a lot of room. And mice were upstairs. We’ve never really had mice upstairs before, but guinea pig food and bedding are all very dear to mice,
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He’s a bright spot on some cold and stressful weeks. She hung out with us, fun to have. He likes her. He’s so funny, standing on those little tiny legs. He takes some lovely naps. Here he’s all fired up showing us his skills at rolling over. And her, FOMO. Would love to come out
We had tortellini soup, and then I headed out for the evening’s real estate appointment. Here Tim’s leading a game of trivial pursuit. Their answers were interesting. In the morning, we tried to think of something fun to do with the day. Lots of ideas were considered. We only had room for five in the
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The weekend started out Friday night with a sleepover. The whole weekend was blissfully quiet, just kids and cooking, nothing more. Then, all the real estate broke loose. There were people who wanted to see houses, and offers came in on a listing, and all at once Saturday spiraled into overdrive. But this was Friday,
We did something new this year, took a trip to Sayulita. We had a good time. I texted these pictures to my niece back in Minnesota and we agreed we could use more streamers in life. Love, Val
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