heidi

mall of america!

 This was the first, very exciting, ride.  I haven’t been to MOA in years and years. It used to be Camp Snoopy then. Now it’s Nickelodeon Universe. Snoopy charms me more than Nickelodeon does, but that’s okay. We had a good time.  I love the cat, clutching a fish in its mouth.  This ride looks […]

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five years

 Five years ago p.j. was born. Yesterday was a big, wild party. Five years of you, Beautiful Girl? Life before you is hard to imagine.  Who could have imagined life held YOU? You make everything better, funnier, more interesting, more fun. Happy Birthday, Darling. Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

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moving

 Heidi and Joe moved, and we have a few pictures. Not a lot. It wasn’t really a photogenic kind of situation. She’s always photogenic.  That’s some intense foil wallpaper:  This bathroom, yeah. The home inspector said it might be the ugliest bathtub he’d ever seen. I think? It works.  Look away.  Learn to like it.

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fairy garden

The girls made this for Julia.  Maria gathered the items.  Heather provided a couple plants. She loved it, magical toy. Here we are at the lake, and last night after her bath, Julia picked through p.j.’s snarled hair just the same say we used to pick through hers when she was little, pulling out bits

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