Here it starts, same place it ends tonight. Guy asleep across the bed, dog next to him. Sunday morning was the Christmas program. We did not participate at our old church in the city. We attended at this one much closer to home. Tim’s the tallest kid in sixth grade, last year of Sunday School. […]
When a guy turns five, you gotta do it up right. This is the amazing bounce castle that we used to get p.j. to go to bed. “You have to sleep if you’re going to a party with a BOUNCE CASTLE!” It’s true! You have to. He was pretty excited: Happy Birthday again, Buddy. It
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You used to spend sooo much time here. You did when you were little and t.c. did too back in the day when we babysat you babies. I have millions of pictures of you guys. And you were soooo cute. Here are the little aunties, entertaining. We had lots of naps, many of them on
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We had a bunch of $1 kites, purchased a long time ago and thrown in a closet. There were a couple other fancier ones too. The breeze was not as steady as it seemed, and the trees around the field made some odd dead zones in the air current. But it was fun. That kite actually
These are from a long time ago. You were an extremely beautiful baby, and also good natured. You hardly ever cried, and it’s funny but your efforts to not cry would kind of break my heart. The little lip. Me? Gone. One night I was sitting in our bed feeding you in the middle of
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Here’s an uncle and his nephew. The t.c. person, the nephew was SO excited about this gift he could not wait to give it to Tim. Lots of the pictures are blurry, like this one of Heidi: Here’s my mom. She agreed to cooperate for exactly ONE picture, and even that wasn’t certain. Yes, my
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We had this conversation a few times today about where are Mommy and Daddy? I know it means hardly anything to them, but not going to bog down in sorrow over it. “Mexico, dudes! We’re having a sleepover!” That sufficed. They rambled around all day and played their little hearts out. I leave the TV run in
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See, I like looking at winter. It’s very pretty, true. But being in it is kind of a pain in the neck. Jay does pretty much all the snow removal. He has this snowblower with a head light and heated handles. Years ago, he accepted it as payment for a job from a guy who was pay-your-bills challenged. I was
Friday is my favorite day of the week. It’s all that unspent weekend potential, best day of the week. So when Alicia emailed yesterday asking if I could watch these boys because she had a deadline, I texted back: “Yes.” Thank goodness for deadlines, maybe. See that picture above? They actually offered to pose for
Sam, as usual, inserting herself right in the middle. So helpful. Dan called last night while I was working, left a voice mail, and when I listened to it, I could hear the aggravation in his voice: the aggravation of parents with no daycare on twelve hours notice. “Yes, I can watch them.” I wanted
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