Yeah, it’s today. We started out with a little, “Let’s have supper,” get together, that bloomed into a huge family thing with rowdy kids in costumes with laser swords and unbelievable racket. That’s her above, in my sister’s lap, Heidi on her knee. I love how Pam’s own baby is swimming over to them. That’s […]
It started out with us up at the lake. The kids wanted a picture of this. They’d named this person, “Handgela.” Aww. Everyone was here for supper tonight, and it was a great, wild, loud night. The only picture of t.c. is him second to the right, in the aqua shirt. Enjoy that. They went into
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His mother does. She’s generous and wonderful. I never forget whose kid he is. Wherever I am? There’s always a mother on the other side, and his mom was a person I knew and liked as a teenager though we weren’t buddies, in different friend circles, when I heard who Joe’s mother was? Pssht. Heidi,
When a guy turns five, you gotta do it up right. This is the amazing bounce castle that we used to get p.j. to go to bed. “You have to sleep if you’re going to a party with a BOUNCE CASTLE!” It’s true! You have to. He was pretty excited: Happy Birthday again, Buddy. It
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Dannell, it’s your birthday again. Funny how that happens year after year. When we met, you were like probably twenty. I was still in my thirties. But that’s all right. We’re still us, and I love you very much. You came into motherhood with a degree in early childhood. I came into the whole endeavor
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You used to spend sooo much time here. You did when you were little and t.c. did too back in the day when we babysat you babies. I have millions of pictures of you guys. And you were soooo cute. Here are the little aunties, entertaining. We had lots of naps, many of them on
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The proud child with the cake she and her dad baked. It was a great day. We got food and went to the park for lunch. We chose a park close to work, so Kirsten could come too. Heidi if anyone would have told me when you were little that you would grow up to
These are from a long time ago. You were an extremely beautiful baby, and also good natured. You hardly ever cried, and it’s funny but your efforts to not cry would kind of break my heart. The little lip. Me? Gone. One night I was sitting in our bed feeding you in the middle of
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Here’s an uncle and his nephew. The t.c. person, the nephew was SO excited about this gift he could not wait to give it to Tim. Lots of the pictures are blurry, like this one of Heidi: Here’s my mom. She agreed to cooperate for exactly ONE picture, and even that wasn’t certain. Yes, my
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He is, so we had a party last night. It was a beautiful, hot day, just like the day he was born. We were mostly outside because it was just too stuffy inside the house. The new bike: The big, fat chocolate cake: I thought about buying a cake, skip running the oven, but it
