another teenager
Thirteen years of you!! It has been a pleasure. Watching you grow– Aww, my sweetie. You always were awful sweet. And now, still sweet. We hope your birthday was a fantastic day! Happy Birthday! Love forever, Grandma and Grandpa
all our love
We lost a friend today. Thirty-three years we’ve lived as next door neighbors, decades of friendship and good times shared, so much laughter–Don loved a good story, both telling and hearing them. He took a personal interest in each one of the kids, in their cars, in their driveway basketball games. Plus there are so
baking experiment
We went over to their house to help with creating the data for the baking experiment. The day before they had baked eight batches of cupcakes, all the same chocolate birthday cake flavor, but only one of the batches used eggs like the recipe called for. The other batches were made with different substitutions for
smartening up
Today I spent over an hour on the phone with our internet provider. Jay asked me to do this last night: “Please call and figure this out.” Okay. Sigh. We have two accounts: A home phone, and a business account for business phone and internet. They put us on paperless billing for the business account,
in the kitchen
Last night heard this guy laughing in the kitchen during the evening. I’m not fully over to day shift, still have an evening shift on Thursday and afternoon on Friday, but there he was. The kids were in the kitchen for hours. Why the kitchen? We have a living room AND a family room on
02/02/2022
This is an old picture, but today she and I paused in the dining room at 2:22 pm to note that it was 2:22 on 02/02/2022. That’s a cool date. I remember 1-1-11 also. Goodness, gotta have fun where we can. We heard the groundhog saw his shadow, so six more weeks of winter. Whatever.
february
February arrived bright and blustery, wind rattling the windows of this old, drafty house. Yesterday was warm enough to have the family room windows open while the varnishing was finished. Today that would be impossible, but here they are all done and out of the way, fumes and all. Today I started working days,
dumbness
This morning we took her to the vet for her lepto booster. It was the first experiment with a stressful situation since she started the Prozac a few weeks ago. It went well. Was not afraid of the vet tech at all, and strangers are usually a big deal to her, but not today.
birthday presents
Behind her is one of the experiments that was in the science kit Maria sent her. They said this gift had come in the mail, but they didn’t know who it was from. The note didn’t say that. Well, Maria had mentioned to me that she’d sent a gift, but there was not a place
basketball
All three teams won their games. A couple games were close enough to be pretty exciting. Jay was working on Kirsten’s house yesterday, so I was on my own. The big brother was helping coach. These pictures aren’t too good. The camera grabbed focus on that lady’s head instead of the player and they’re