And he can kick, and kick, and no, no, no. He’d better take it easy on his back. We planned a party for tomorrow night, but Heidi and Joe are going to visit his mom tomorrow and stay over night, so we had a little party tonight too. There she is scouring the mixed vegetables, […]
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We spent it doing what we do. Last night there were two kids still up after midnight, with a movie player in the quilts playing Toy Story II, two Nintendo DS thingies, and waaaay too much shrieking and thumping and carrying on. I was disgusted. Being all giddy and hilarious at 10:00 is one thing,
Do we know who this boy is? Awww, yeah. We do. It’s Jay back when he was fifteen. I didn’t know him yet, not for a couple more years. See this guy? It’s James. He turned up in the family a while back, like fourteen years ago. I never really thought he resembled his dad
Well. He seemed to love it. Jay laughed when he saw him scrambling up on his rock pile to snap up the pieces. You go, Bernie. This reptile has been living in the kitchen (eeew! I know!) for about 15 years now, and yet he still acts like he doesn’t know us. I approach the
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It’s a bike ride with Grandpa and alot of rowdy bike riders. Here he comes with t.c. cheering. This is me and my dad in his garage. I didn’t see him today, only talked on the phone. Some animal called a fisher cat got into the chicken coop and killed most of the chickens. He
and their dads– These quick weekend pictures of Julia and her dad caught me tonight. This is me and MY dad, Pam in my lap, back in 1963. Here’s Kirby in 1987. And Heidi in 1988. My mom and her dad in 1943. I have no particular point here, and yet I do. It’s easy
Okay, this morning he had nothing scheduled, so he got up and took Maria to school. Then he went on a three mile walk. Then he went grocery shopping. Then he made a vegetable pizza for the party tonight. He did all this before I even got out of bed. (At 10:30. Heidi called and
Okay, for a long time we were a family of six. John, Dan, Heidi, Kirsten, and us. That was all, and it was good. I’m going through photo albums for a project involving my parents’ 50th anniversary and came across these, which are of a weekend visiting Jay’s grandparents John and Lydia. That’s Grandpa John
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Last week I bought stamps, and the guy asked me if I wanted a roll of 100. I told him, “Yeah, a hundred, but I don’t want the Liberty Bell ones. Do you have anything fun?” He rummaged around in the drawer and pulled up Beetle Bailey stamps. Fun. Latin Music Legends? “Oh, yeah. Fun.”
