Here you are over the weekend, playing lifeguard. This from 2002, you wrangling my wild baby, Lydia. This is the story of Heidi’s name: Before she was born, we picked out a pretty girl’s name–Jennifer Michelle. It was a perfect, pretty baby girl name. And then she was born and didn’t look at all like […]
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Yes, he is. And we had a great weekend at the lake, a fine day today, all of us together, having fun. Here are some pictures from the past. When you’ve known someone thirty-three years, there is history you cannot escape, not that I’d even want to. This is from thirty years ago. Smurf sweats.
This morning we stepped outside and it felt like we were in Punta Cana again, it was so humid and hot. We have air conditioning in the cabin, which doesn’t get used very much. Wisconsin is not usually that hot, but today it was. Here’s most everybody at the sand bar. This one stayed back
Yes, it was, and then we realized we were out of forks and out of paper plates. The wind was brisk. Dannell found some paper plates and forks in their trailer while Jay and I washed some as fast as we could. Small problems, minor inconvenience. We sang and did candles for the little ones,
My Sweetie asked me when the party was? He’d heard we were having a party. It was true. We celebrated all the end of summer birthdays in one big bash on Saturday night. I made a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting, and we bought fancy ice cream from a local dairy. We had
Nice and hot, lots of sun, many pictures: Skipping rocks: This amused me–see those swim trunks? Apparently they used to be Jay’s and he handed them down to James. I never noticed before how the plaid doesn’t match–not even at all, no attempt. Many more pictures, lots more fun. love you guys, Mom, aka Grandma
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My sister, Pam, turned fifty today. All day long I kept thinking about when we were little and how our birthdays were like National Holidays to us, and remembering that we’d be getting ready for Pam’s birthday party–pointy hats, neighbor kids. Tonight they had us all to their house for a party. My kids react
After that drenching episode we moved on to miniature golf. This is a picture I took quick before James could make a weird face. “How are you going to deal with senior pictures?” Yeah, that’s going to be a challenge. And then we came home and sang Happy Birthday to Tim. And
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The family birthday party is delayed until next weekend–everyone is too busy at this point to find an acceptable evening all together. So we had to find something else to do to celebrate Tim’s day. This was fun. Jay used to take a herd of boys here back when John and Dan were little for
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It’s past midnight now, so the birthday was officially yesterday even though it still feels like today. I hope it was a great day. When I talked to Dan about a birthday party, in all overwhelmed honesty the answer was: “Let’s do it with Tim’s birthday.” I so appreciate a true story, the real truth,
