That’s Lydia, posing nicely for a picture before her band concert. (She was a bit tense.) It was a really nice concert, and she’s learned a lot of music in the last couple years. She is also giving up the giant saxophone she’s been playing, and is going for the clarinet my sister Pam offered her […]
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This beautiful baby, our youngest grandchild, is turning two. There was a feast and celebration. Dannell generously asked me to bake a cake. Fancy cakes from the store are wonderful, and I like those too. But it feels like an honor to bake a cake for someone I love. These little boys are too much.
Dannell texted in the morning–did we want to go to the pool? Well sure. p.j. didn’t have a bathing suit with her, so we had to stop at Target on the way, but no problem. That outdoor pool is looking pretty inviting in the sun, even with the snow. Inside was bright and warm, just
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This is the note My Sweetie handed me today. I thanked him, and then he said, “It’s supposed to say, I love you because you’re the best grandma in the whole world, but I don’t know how to spell all that yet.” Okay, I know I’m not, but I love that he wrote
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Not these two. They were pretty much no help, just sat there and smirked. I have some truly goofy Thanksgiving decorations, but I like them. Here’s Maria arranging the flowers. After she got done, she announced they looked like shit. What? Do not tell me $40 worth of fresh cut flowers look like shit.
We went. It was beautiful, wonderful, perfect. First was a church service, a Catholic mass. We are not Catholic, but it’s still lovely. Then the kids sang. This is the kid rolling around on his grandfather. It’s a little aching to be there, at a grandparent occasion, seeing how the kids light up when they
grandparents day, 2013 Read More »
I went looking for pictures of you tonight, not too hard to find. Here’s an old one. Recognize your sisters in law? Awww, this is so cute. Glamorous. Wonderful. Here you two are again: You have been a part of this family since forever practically it feels like, enduring the scrappy insanity of the sisters
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There are very few pictures, unless others took them. There was too much to do. Late in the afternoon, the babies arrived and congregated in the family room and back yard. This was too hazardous. The hill is narrow and they roll real crooked. This dining room set was in my parents home when I
Here they tonight on the front steps of their new house. I love selling real estate. When people find their house it’s always a magical combination of logic and emotion. Logic gets you to the houses that will work, but there’s some abstract quality that tells a person this is home. I love it when
