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, […]
Today at lunch we were talking about Heidi when she was little. She couldn’t say lunch, called it, “Hunch.” Dan was five, and he and I thought it was funny. We tried to help her practice: “Heidi say la-la-la-lunch.” She’d lift her chin up and down, carefully pronouncing, “La-la-la-Hunch.” Over and over we did this,
So we keep cleaning. Jay trimmed trees today and mowed the lawn, fixed the screen door and the broken handle… Now he’s making spaghetti. I tackled that room below the family room. Oh, that room. Kirsten used to live down there when she was in college, but now it’s just another big room where Lincoln
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Okay, this meets the official definition of horseplay, I’m sure of it. These are lovely pictures, eh? When their FATHER got on the bike, that’s when I left. I had NO desire to witness or record his tragic demise. He’s bigger than these guys, and I saw the tire slip a bit when one of
a superb weekend. Yesterday morning I took Tim over to my parents to see the digger dig up their back yard. They’ve got a project going on and Tim looooves equipment. (He has even referred to my Kitchen Aid mixer as, “the equipment.” Power tools, yah, yah.) The guy dug, the bucket scraping against the
dan and john with maria, james peeking in the back Last night we were on the patio and James and Maria spotted a big nail pounded in the siding up above the kitchen. It’s painted white, so it’s obviously been there a while. I told them John had done that back when he was in
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Tonight our friends Dan and Denise came for supper. They came to help us reconnect some wires that were accidentally severed in a clothesline-moving incident. (I asked Jay to move the clothesline. It was my idea.) But this is the thing about them. If you need them? There they are. These guys were our neighbors
Today was the baptism. It was 60 degrees out, unlike the day they were married in May, six years ago, when it was cloudy with a stiff wind. Today was balmy, the mud atrocious, and spring is so close it’s driving us CRAZY. We haven’t had any occasion to be in that church since they
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Okay, see this picture? In the background is a painting Heidi did for an art class at the university. It’s a self-portrait, but that’s probably obvious. Anyway, when she brought it home at the end of the semester, she said to take down the picture that’s usually over the fireplace and put up her painting
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