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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Joe and Julia, back when she was lil bitty Tonight Heidi and Joe came for supper, bringing pizza and chocolate chip cooky mix. Jay was gone driving a van full of kids to a winter retreat, so it was really thoughtful of them to come keep me company, to care about my trashed back. (Much
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The wisdom teeth went well. He’s feeling fine, eating ice cream, texting away. Here’s a new dumb story for a new dumb day: Today I was cooking some chicken breasts, boiling them on the stove. After a while, the water boiled away and I didn’t notice. The smoke detector went off, but I didn’t know
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Tonight I noticed a phone message out in the kitchen, near the old rotary phone, and I couldn’t really read it. I asked who wrote it and what it was. Little Jay said, “That’s a phone message for Dad. Sergeant Brask from the army called.” I said, “Sergeant Brask? Called for Dad?” “Well, yeah. They
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this picture has nothing to do with anything, but it’s -5 today and i like looking at it. i found it yesterday while cleaning the office–nice surprise. This is the note I sent to my friends on Saturday night. They assure me he’s normal. He probably is. I mean, I think so too, but my
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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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Okay, tonight we were down in the office working, and far away, we could hear a child’s frightened voice hollering, “Dad! Daaad! Dad!” We ran. The possibilities are infinite. All the commotion was in the family room, in the bathroom specifically. We could hear water pouring, and sure enough the radiator was spraying hot water
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Today I talked to Alicia about this again, and she told me the reason they take this round about approach is because then the dog jumps off the bed as if it’s her own idea. (I gazed at Little b.g. asleep, long eyelashes against his cheeks, his apple red cheeks, the little pretend ears on
Tonight Dan and Alicia were talking about b.g. sleeping in the middle half the night and how that’s evolved, and another kid asked about the dog—their Sheltie. Where does she sleep then? She sleeps at the foot of the bed too, and it gets crowded. Dan said, “When we want her off the bed we
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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