birthdays

another birthday

Mine today. Kari and I share. It was great. Jay made lasagna last night for the party tonight. This was Kari’s request and an excellent choice. He did a great job. I’d baked the cake earlier, and unfortunately the cake had issues. It tore when I frosted it and things were spiraling downhill, so we […]

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who’s eleven?

It’s Lydia’s birthday. She used to be about the nuttiest squirrel in the house. Not anymore. Since she turned ten last year she’s become extremely civilized. She never hypes out, smarts off, or causes trouble. She’s good-natured, responsible, and calm. I mean, we knew this would happen eventually, but already??? When she was born, we

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friday night

A few pictures from Little Jay’s birthday party on Friday night: Tim’s showing t.c. how to gel his hair. The results: l.c. whispered a song to his new cousin. Why are so many pictures blurry? That’s not the song–I just get tired of cute, blurry pictures. He sang her Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. She liked

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you

I got a couple kids here chattering away to me now, disrupting my train of thought. But what they’re chattering about? They have a 3-D trading card of a tiger. First the face, then tilt it and it looks like the tiger leaping toward you. I’m accumulating items to put in a care package for

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