We headed out at supper time, made it to Wisconsin in time, even with traffic. This very grown up person was there. I reminded her about how three years ago I bought her wedding Barbies for Christmas. We laughed. “I still have all those.” There’s My Sweetie singing. He’s the one in the front in […]
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There was a lot of action in the seats. There’s b.g. He was so excited, sang his little heart out. There were cookies and punch in a properly sunny room with miniature furniture. Just like preschool is supposed to be. Then we had lunch at McDonald’s and it was a great day. b.g.? You did
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Okay, this was last night, Lydia working on math surrounded by gingerbread. She has a math tutor this year, well worth the money. This lovely woman, a real estate client, an engineer, agreed to tutor her, two 45 minute sessions a week. It’s helping tremendously. These were taken in church this morning. Lydia was the
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Okay, this year as they took over, rolling and cutting cookies adeptly, advising p.j. not to stamp out cookies in the middle, to go around the edges and get the most out of the dough, I realized this: They can do this all by themselves. Holy crap. Life skills. I know adults who have no
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They came here to play while Dan and Alicia went Christmas shopping. b.g. told me his parents names are Dan and Wawesha. I love that. Here they’re helping sort the M&Ms. We only use the green and yellow ones. After a couple handfuls we finally put the rest up. I didn’t want them getting stomach
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On Thanksgiving, the big kids made a plan for all of us to go downtown to the Holidazzle parade on Friday night. First we had to get there way early to find good spots, and to get in a parking ramp where we could get back out of it again afterward. The kids were all
Okay, so this goes back a ways. The five oldest children all have lovely Christmas stockings. I painstakingly did counted cross for each of them. Kirsten’s stocking is trimmed in handmade lace my dad’s mom crocheted. Heidi’s has little pockets. John’s has a checkered back on it and I embroidered his whole name:
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This is a picture of Renee’s child sharing pizza with the cat? Who knew cats eat pizza? Although, I do know they eat pepperoni. When Maria was tiny she was feeding bits of pepperoni to Lori’s cat at supper. Then she lost her balance and fell off the chair. The cat shot out from under
Zero F above. 15F below: Here are a few pictures from the birthday party for our baby. That child in plaid is not the birthday boy. He’s not going to be a year old for a few months yet. There’s the birthday boy in the blue sweater. This man spent New Year’s with us again.
It was a wild, rowdy time. Yeah. All perfect. Ahhhh, what a nice way to roll into the new year. love you all so much, MOM and DAD too.
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