We continued baking this evening, sugar cookies. Tim and Julia wanted to help Kari and me, but at some point, I just couldn’t handle it another second. Julia was touching everything and not taking turns. Tim had the angel cookies pooping on the other cookies. Yeah, that’s fun. (When Little Jay was just about this […]
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It’s been a quiet week, good. Here are a few pictures for fun: We have more baking to do, and frosting, and a big snowstorm is scheduled to hit tonight. Hopefully I’ll be done working this evening before the roads get bad. Then we can just be here and bake cookies all night. I guess
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Yeah. It’s up. The whole living room is glowy and beautiful. Julia was frustrated by how slow the process is. First a girl must wait for her dad to come home from work. Then the trailer has to be hooked up. The drive is not short. The tree was cut, shaken in the shaker, shoved
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Okay, tonight… this is another DUMB story…. (it’s that round container, right in the front) As John and his family were preparing to leave, Big Jay mentioned to t.c. would he like to give Sam a dog treat? He held out the clear plastic container with the dog treats in it, and the child popped
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di·shev·eled or di·shev·elled (d -sh v ld) adj. 1. Being in loose disarray; unkempt, as hair or clothing. 2. Marked by disorder; untidy: a disheveled pile of books on the library table. Yeah, well, that’s this house tonight, even with little glowing candle lights in all the windows. It looks so pretty, who knows what
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the dual action light sabre!! thank you! grandma and grandpa!! Tonight we and all our grown kids enjoyed dinner at a nearby restaurant–John and Dannell’s Christmas gift to us. It was lovely. It’s a lumpy transition from Christmas into 2010… and yet our wonderful old friends will be here on New Year’s Day to celebrate,
three faces: We had a great Christmas, very fun. reading with grandma These are pictures from Christmas morning, and the question: What is up with these kids? Notice their pajamas. We have tons of pajamas, pass them down kid to kid. They were sold in matching sets–tops and bottoms. The other kids wore them as
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Thursday was the Christmas program at preschool. This is the last program I’ll ever attend as a mom there. My baby, Julia, will be a kindergartener next year, and preschool will be over. All ten of them went to this school. Our first year was in 1982, and we’ve had a child there pretty much
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Okay, last night we went to bed, same as usual, set the alarm for 6 am. I crawled over him and hit the snooze button a couple times, and then thought, “I HAVE to get up! Ugh, I’m sooo tiiired.” I wandered to the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror. Gawd, I look
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