We made it through the weekend. It was fun, noisy, stressful, intense–special and weird and wonderful. I fried shrimp and we played cards, and it was hot and it stormed. Now we’re home again. Here are a few pictures. These are pics of the soccer game. They don’t include the swearing that occurred. Though there […]
Okay, yesterday in traffic Maria and I were on a hill, and the city skyline was perfectly framed with all these wild storm clouds. Well, the stop light changed as she fiddled with the camera, and I had to drive down the hill, and this is all we got. I don’t blame her. It was
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the one who is the dad around here, head neatly chopped off. he puts up with this. It was a pretty nice weekend. We went to a family party Saturday, had a very good time. We got to see all the babies of our nieces, and I cannot even describe how lovely that was. Some
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The craft today at bible school was packing bag lunches to be delivered to members of the church who are sick or elderly–unable to get out. The kids colored pictures on the bags and enclosed decorated cards. Others made sandwiches and packed cookies and grapes in plastic baggies, and the lunches were put together in
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We’re doing vacation bible school this week. It’s been two days, with three more to go. It’s fun. I’m exhausted, but that’s okay. The exhaustion is something else–something is wrong lately where I lack energy, and it’s more noticeable at bible school. I suppose it’s because I have to get up early and can’t go
The afternoon was spent amusing b.g. on the patio, and also catching bugs. Santa gave Tim this little device with a magnifying lens for looking at bugs, and it is pretty fun. He used a catalpa pod to flick them into the tube and then turned the lens so we could see them, and then
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A lot of people use my camera besides just me, and often pictures turn up where I pause and wonder what is going on. Here are a few from the weekend. I don’t have answers. Good thing James has a haircut scheduled. Okay, that’s weird. I’m sure there’s a story there. And probably here too…
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I’ve been dreading this day for years, dreading how it was going feel. It was the last day of preschool for the last child. Julia is my baby. We’re done. We’ve done milked this thing as long as anyone could. This place and these people have been part of our life for 28 years. Week
Okay, this story is just too damned good not to share. It’s the Hula Hoop Story. This is the story: A mom and dad bought their four year old son a hula hoop. He probably can’t hula, but that’s okay. They’re being nice to the kid. In the car on the way home, the kid
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