It’s like a holiday here. We go with it. And our friends were here, and we had a great time. And this guy was there. I haven’t hugged him in a long time–could be a couple weeks. It was fun to be together with him and his brothers too. p.j. and l.c. playing a bit […]
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And then the week was not boring anymore. Fun, fun. love you girls so, Val, aka Mom, aka Grandma
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It is, totally boring, nothing but work. The job is finished on the side of the house–good for another twenty years. The kids helped take down the scaffolding. This scaffolding was given to Jay by a friend of his parents, quite a long time ago. It’s come in very handy living here. There’s also something
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Summer went by so fast again. Tuesday James goes back to school and the other guy leaves this week for his private school in Connecticut. It’s fine. Sad, but fine. The weeks fly past until the holidays. There they are looking cool, him in the hat he knit himself, and James in
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Okay, this is my favorite picture of Lydia during the last year or so and definitely a favorite even over her lifetime. Heather took this picture last spring and everything about it is perfect. Heather is intuitive and understated, and talented. And this little girl is going to school in two weeks. Grade 9 begins,
These are the elephants swimming in the water. They blew water out their trunks and splashed around. It looked pretty inviting. Here’s a cute picture of all the kids. Those are Renee’s three on the left. The rest are mine. So we drove around through the safari in the van. Kids were real excited.
Fifteen hours of driving, almost 1000 miles. We did it in one trip, no problems. It was different from a few years back when we drove out with babies. This time? All quiet. Okay, fresh flowers in the bathroom? This is the kind of thing she does. There’s a heat lamp in the gazebo, and
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We made these cookies today, also quick. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler, dump in a box of Ritz Bitz with peanut butter filling, and stir. Then dump them out on waxed paper, pick them apart with a fork, and sprinkle. We also took this opportunity to go watch James play basketball. This ONE
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Old friends came for supper last night. We met these people almost thirty years ago through strange circumstances. They adopted a dog we had stolen from the neighbors. David with Thor and Josie Normally we are not thieves or dognappers, but this dog was in trouble. The neighbor kids and ours played together and on
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Dan and Alicia’s guys came to spend Saturday morning with us. It was nice, very easy going. And then this guy got tired and droopy, so I put him in the pouch and walked the swoopy baby-nap walk until he was asleep. He had on that goofy winter hat–he modeled all the hats actually. Most
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