Tim reads to me every day so I can observe his progress (and enjoy his company.) He’s doing well, reading amazingly much better than a year ago. Anyway, today when he threw himself across my bed with his book, I noticed the bookmark he was using was an old sock. It looked like a dirty […]
This was something Heidi wanted to do on her day off, and Julia’s been asking to go here for months. Alicia was game, and Dan was even also. This is the Our World section where they have a neighborhood, including a bus, a clinic, a sound stage, an art museum, restaurant, grocery store, and post
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Today I was working on fourth quarter and some year end tax filings, and the W2s. Julia was bored, kept on aggravating the other kids and also me. Finally I told her to go get the drawing book I bought at Costco last week. It kept her busy for a long time. It gives line
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We made a trip there today, to the Institute of Arts. It’s a huge, rambling building, a maze of stairways and skylights and little rooms and big chambers. When I say we–these are the people who went. Little Jay went. Here he’s pictured above with his friend Larry, all decked out for Kirsten’s ugly sweater
Last Thursday, we had the whole day free and the kids wanted to do something fun. They mentioned swimming at the pool Kirsten took them to last winter. Ei-yi-yi. When it’s 20 degrees out that seems so not fun. They mentioned the Children’s Museum. Okay, that’s about $60 and a trip halfway to Wisconsin. We
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We made our way to the lake Thursday. The water was so still it felt almost spooky. Standing on the dock, I could almost feel it pulling me over. Inside the house there was this: See that pan of dip in the middle of the table? This is the recipe: 8 oz cream cheese spun
I ran for the camera yesterday afternoon because the sky was so vivid and the leaves so golden in the sun. Today we went to Walmart for groceries. And came home with THIS: It’s a twelve foot tall inflatable Santa. I feel a little foolish about it, but he was just so amazing and kitschy
And that in itself seemed a good enough reason to celebrate. Plus I’ve been working a lot and was so tired I slept most of the morning and still did not feel like facing the day. But I live with cute people so in that way I’m lucky. Life is nothing but good. Since it’s
Yeah, some kids were taking pictures. She’s been wearing these glasses for several days. Sometimes she drives me nuts with her chattering, but she’s like sunshine, has one of those sunny personalities with all kinds of observations and ideas. And lots of wild, giddy laughter–always the loud, squealy laughing. When I get to living too
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Julia and Tim are both writing this year, nice surprise. I have no idea when this happened exactly, but it did. Anyway, today Julia wrote extensive lists (invented spelling included) of how to take care of p.j. properly: She did have to help translate some of this. Mrot is is Julia’s backward way of saying
