t.c. and alicia, July 09 This was written exactly one year ago. (I’ve got your cake baked for tomorrow, Alicia. Happy Birthday!) It’s a sweet dad story: “Tonight we had a family party for our daughter in law Alicia’s birthday and everyone was here for supper. All the girls and daughter in laws were sitting […]
click on this if you want–it’s a much prettier picture larger those two don’t get much cuter yes, lydia, deep in thought Happy Friday. love, Val
It’s her birthday. She’s six today. Six years ago she was born in the middle of a summer night after we’d spent the day at the beach. Jay ran upstairs to get Heidi and Kirsten, who were home from college for the summer. They came downstairs to say hi to Julia. In the morning, when
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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Okay, this meets the official definition of horseplay, I’m sure of it. These are lovely pictures, eh? When their FATHER got on the bike, that’s when I left. I had NO desire to witness or record his tragic demise. He’s bigger than these guys, and I saw the tire slip a bit when one of
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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Tonight we were in the office, and Jay said, “I wonder if I put my lunch in the fridge here or upstairs? I can’t remember.” We looked, and there it was, safe on the shelf. But then we started laughing about other lunch stories… and I do love dumb stories… One night last winter, Jay
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In the morning we leave for my in laws, for the Mother’s Day/Birthday Celebration. It’s cold and gloomy and might even SNOW. (Awwww, noooo.) We hope not. She’s a fairly beautiful woman I dearly love… Tonight I baked and frosted a big, fat chocolate cake for her, and Julia helped me shop for a gift.
Below is something written ten years ago. This boat has been sold, along with the old motor that never ran right after 2002, not even with a thousand dollars in repairs. John helped me take it to the repair shop several times, early in the morning. It was at a marina, and that lake was
Jay and I worked today. When I came home and asked the kids where he was, they said he was asleep on the patio. Really? Yeah. I found him, head on the metal arm of the swing, left leg twisted in a pretzel bend for balance, asleep on that little swing. When he woke up,
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