That’s her. First we had two boys, a year apart. Then four years later, we had two girls, two years apart. We had the big brothers and the little sisters. And it was like that for five and a half years until Baby Jay came along and hit the family like some kind of crazy […]
This taken from the upstairs window. That’s our neighbor, Bob, pulling out his dock. Another angle, sigh. But we did have a good time, cards, and deep fried cheese curds, movies, the video games, the art projects, and even some running around outside in the rain. One card poker, and this guy feels he’s losing.
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This was Dan’s last year of homeschool, and he spent it making Malt O Meal and carrying Maria around, hanging out, watching Northern Exposure at noon. I enjoyed his company very much. Just like now, at 14, he was sarcastically astute, generally quite kind, and easy to be around. The last year they spent in
Today. And everyone teases her, “Sweet Sixteen and never been kissed.” (She’s had a marriage proposal, but never been kissed. Hunh?) Tonight Julia said, “Yes, you have too been kissed. Mom kisses you all the time.” Maria threw back her head and laughed. That’s not the kind of kissing we’re talking about. Sixteen years ago
This is a very fine coffee table, bought at JC Penney about 15 years ago. It’s solid oak, and I paid about $200. Okay, see it in the picture there? Ordinary. Fine. John says I got my money’s worth out of that thing. I disagree. An oak coffee table that cost hundreds of dollars should
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of Dannell. We left John off at the university, and a few weeks later when he was home for the weeekend doing his laundry, he told me this: “All the cute girls are in the elementary ed program.” Okay, then. Good to know. Next time he came home, he had her with him. (And she
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Here’s the note I sent my friends the morning he was born: “The baby was born at 2:32 am! Dan called at 3 am and said to come at 5, so we went to the store and bought flowers and balloons and cookies and were there by 5:10. Alicia had a fast, straight forward labor
heidi and newborn julia The first baby girl was Heidi. She was born a couple hours after everyone went home from Dan’s fourth birthday party. She was the smallest of all our babies, a little tiny jaundiced peanut. But she grew. I wrote this back when she finished high school– “My oldest daughter, Heidi, and
at two at eighteen Yes. Thirty today. Him. He’s Dan, the second child. John’s the first child, and his birthday was back in June, ended up all wrapped into the graduation party, which often happens–that, or a wedding, or something. john and dad But in August, life gets a little slower. When Dan was born,
The kids brought friends to the lake, and also our niece. The weather was beautiful. It was a very good time. Others will be at the lake in the weeks to come, but we won’t be back for a month or more, so glad we made it there one more time in August. swimming–-that basketball
