at the lake was nicer than I’d even hoped. John and Dannell parked a trailer in the woods, a place where their family can go to escape the mayhem. This morning I sent Kari to tell them the pancakes were ready. She sprinted in her bare feet in the cold, across the rough lawn and […]
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Okay, I looked out the window and Tim’s wandering contentedly around the backyard with these gigantic headphones on. They’re for a Baldwin organ a friend left at my house. It’s been …oh 15 years? I don’t think she’s coming back for the organ. She’s told me she’s not. But still. When I saw him singing
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We’ve got this guy for the day. He went with me to the grocery store, rode around happily in the cart, so cute–big red cheeks and little soft moccasins. When we got home, he wore himself out playing with James. When he was pooped out, I wrapped him in a blanket and took him out
dan and john with maria, james peeking in the back Last night we were on the patio and James and Maria spotted a big nail pounded in the siding up above the kitchen. It’s painted white, so it’s obviously been there a while. I told them John had done that back when he was in
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The thirty-eighth birthday was spent in bed in the sun with beautiful newborn Kari. Lori came with buns and sandwich meat, and we all had a picnic in the bedroom. The kids took silly video, bouncy, seasick video. Kari slept. The forty-eighth? Babysitting b.g. and dropping off our LAST tuition check at preschool. (The school
Yeah, this one, this little cute one… who emerged wound so many times in her cord that her dad had to untangle her… whose first words were: “No!” “Mine!” and “Stuck!” kari, and her brother dan, on her birthday …the one who has been charming us and cracking us up for years, turned ten years
Beautiful day, lots of fun… We went to church and to the Easter breakfast before the service. It was great. Tim decided he wanted seconds on the sausage, so I told him to go get in line and ask. They’d give it to him. He went skipping on up there and I figured they’d put
Here we have the kids coloring eggs. The kit had only three colors. What the heck? They usually have a whole bunch, like ten. But, you know? With three it worked just as well and it was less of a mess. We did eighteen eggs and everyone was happy. And my mom took Lydia birthday
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We used to call this guy Baby Jay. Then it evolved to Little Jay, and we still call him that, even though he’s taller than his dad. This week he took his placement test for college in the fall, and graduation is a few weeks away. His whole childhood is over. How could this HAPPEN?
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Today we had our best mr. b.g. for the day. He was lively. He’s learning to crawl, did a terrible face plant on the living room rug. UGH! You know that sound when the little head hits the floor, sounds like someone dropped a pumpkin? Yeah, that sound. (It’s an old pretty area rug, but
