Awww, that’s the auntie and the nephew, reading a story. He smiled at her, and she loved it. I could crop the vacuum out and so forth, but nah. Alicia and her mom came today with the kids. I don’t see her mom very often, and for the three of us to have hours together […]
There’s nothing much better. Oh, it was a gorgeous, beautiful evening, after the rain last night. Already the grass is turning green. The burgers and Mexican dip could not have tasted better. Sometimes when things are perfect, they just are. love, Val
This dog came to be babysat for a couple days. Her name is Sophie. She was an excellent guest. We had a good time. We walked up to the park on Friday, I think. Here she’s trying to round up all the balls, but it’s a hard job. Look at the dirt, this drab March
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See that pond? It’s really just a big, thawing puddle next to the hockey rink. There once was a warming house too long ago, but it burned down. Which brings us to this precious story. John would go up there and ice skate, and Dan would too. But one day John asked to go up
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Okay, the baby steps therapy–this intrigued me. This morning on Anderson Cooper, which has turned out to be a surprisingly entertaining program, a counselor was talking about cognitive therapy for anxiety and OCD, and he referred to his method as, “baby steps therapy.” p.j. was bouncing around the room being her rambunctious, funny self and
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The little brother has his birthday in February, and the older in March, so their parents threw a party in the middle. They host the party at John’s work in the big rec room. See James and Little Jay playing basketball in back? We have all wondered how anyone gets any work done at all
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Tim’s learning to read. He’s getting better all the time. But his level of comprehension is waaaay ahead of the very early books he’s able to get through. Yesterday he read me a story called, “It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny.” It’s a little cartoon rabbit, sick of his own home, who goes to live
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Okay, Kirsten works for a huge corporation with many divisions. This is good. They have broomball tournaments, also good. She signed up. Good, good. She loves broomball. This is a funny broomball story: The team called “Supply Chain” played the team called, “Lawyers.” A guy got his face smashed and cut open across
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