I do like looking at winter. Aaron, your office: This very sad thing happened to John and Dannell’s tree–fell right over. This is not the firs time. This happened to Heidi years ago too. Thump. And that’s the end of the night. Nothing but love, Val
The tree is up. The kids helped decorate inside, and Jay worked outside. This was from the Christmas we brought Elin home. New lights in the garland, and I like them much better than the lights we had for a year or two–those were too led blue, had flicker to them. I hated them. These
As we have for about ten years or more, we headed to Mark and Barb’s to celebrate Christmas Day. Dan’s child LOVES this party SO MUCH he told his parents he wanted to have his birthday party hosted at Mark and Barb’s. There were video games in the basement and so much laughing. Green powerade
christmas day, 2017 Read More »
We picked Kirsten up from the airport about 1 am last night, so happy to have her home! And last evening Frankie showed up to be babysat. He belongs to a friend of Maria’s and we’re babysitting for the week. He’s wiggly, hard to get a good picture of, so snorty and funny. Elin was
a fine friday in december Read More »
This has been such a beautiful thing since the weather got cold–just come over here and go nuts once a week. The first time we went, she was a little tiny baby who slept the whole time. But now, nope. She had to get up and be propped up in the stroller so she could
gym day and lunch at the great-grandparents Read More »
It was the Christmas Program tonight, pretty adorable. That’s her in the gray dress, looking sharp. This one was actually pretty good, a little busy, but not loud. There was a Christmas cooky reception afterward, which we enjoyed, and then came home and frosted a million sugar cookies here. They’re all stacked between layers of
christmas program and frosting cookies Read More »
We did it. We started around 6 pm, and were done by the end of the evening. These guys came to hang out for a couple hours while we baked, very nice. She’s four months now, turning into a regular PERSON. The little one wrangled herself inclusion in the little Barbieland corner. She struggled to
8 batches of sugar cookies and 8 batches of gingerbread Read More »
The bakers: I could not have done this without them. They’re intrepid and know what needs to be done. Working on the gingerbread: The dishes, ugh. They’re long gone now. And this little cutie–I tried to get a picture of her for a while, but gave up. She’s not a cooperator, doesn’t smile or even
the start of the cookies Read More »
A year ago the dog breeder called to tell us she had a couple left over puppies. We were waiting for a litter due in February, but just in case, maybe we were interested in a puppy now? She sent a photo and we were so delighted to go get this extra puppy. She was
This girl took a fine, long, sweaty nap on the couch. She woke up in a good mood in her nest of old doll blankets. Those flowered ones are blankets I sewed out of my mom’s old kitchen curtains. That’s some kind of weird doll blanket history. I would not have taken the afternoon to
