In 1981 we bought a 35mm camera. It was expensive for us at the time, but remember those crappy Instamatic snapshots? Yah. Actually, this camera was one of the best things we could have done. I have the most beautiful pictures of our kids growing up–all my most beautiful babies (Album upon album, a person […]
Julia’s learning the alphabet in preschool, and a note came home that she should bring something that starts with V for show and tell. Wow, okay. She said she wanted to bring vegetable oil. I thought that was not the best idea, potentially really messy, and I told her this. She said she’d leave the
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Maria reading with Sidney Oh my gosh. Tonight Kirsten came over to keep Maria company and hold down the fort while we were at Jay’s National Honor Society thing. Late in the evening, as the baths progressed, and Kirsten and I were dealing with the kids and the house winding down for the evening, Kari
Yesterday, late afternoon I mowed the lawn and cleaned up the front yard. It was really dusty around the pine trees. I had pine junk stuck in my hair, a chunk of flesh missing from my thumb knuckle, dirt around my ankles above the shoes, a just filthy. I came in, and after I put
Okay, so up at Poor Richard’s Antiques was this nasty old taxidermy bobcat. Missing an ear, moth-eaten, sitting on a shelf out back year after year, and Lydia was fascinated by it, liked to look it, talk about it, wanted to buy it. It was $60 and NO we were not buying it! Not even
My dad told this story from an afternoon with Tim: He and Tim were walking along and Tim asked him, “Could a bird rule the world?” My dad, being the amiable soul he is, walking along chatting with a child said, “Sure.” Tim, in all seriousness, asked, “How?” Love, Val
Okay, there is mayhem upstairs. Why always with the mayhem? We’ve got your door slamming and a lot of laughing. I can hear dance, dance revolution from somewhere up there, but this ain’t dancing. I have a box with about 12 shoes in it—all singles. Where are the matches for these shoes and bedroom slippers?
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Just before everyone came for supper, the washer flooded and we realized the drain line was clogged, had to call the drain cleaner out. But it was quite a sight, hot sudsy water flowing all across the kitchen floor. The kids hollered, “We need a plumber! Call a plumber!” Jay was crawling around on his
An actual email from Heidi, received at 11:20 this morning: “I think Sam could use a buddy : ) LOL… they are so cute though. Heidi” My response: “O. M. G. Heidi Jo. Sam does not need a buddy! I’m not having a puppy. Love you, but good LOR-ED. love, Mom” (It also weirds me
Today we stopped by Kirsten’s house. She and Heidi and Joe live there together. Kirsten told me Joe has informed her the sweet potatoes are ready. (My dad gave them these plants last spring, I guess.) Joe has a degree in conservation, so anything he tells us about plants, animals, water, weather, bugs, we believe
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