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
p.j. wanted to give her little sister a bath. Heidi was willing, but dang, so tired. And she knew I’d love to do it. So we did. She was shampooed and is just so perfect and sweet. Julia took the pictures. p.j. had a dining room chair pushed up beside me to help. And
Yes, she was, born this morning. We didn’t know at the time p.j. went to preschool that her sister was already born. She was excited because the class was walking to the library. The library! Good grief. We picked her up from school and drove downtown to where her sister was waiting to meet her.
Today was the fourth birthday party and it was fantastic. There’s a whole mob of people who love this child, and they filled the house and even the yard. It was 40+ degrees out, and sun shining. This is John and Dannell’s baby, growing fast, so cuddly and funny. She is starting to smile, though
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Alicia took this one too and it took about ten photos to get one of them all somewhat looking forward. They are a wild, bouncy bunch. love always, GRANDMA
I came across this on Instagram tonight. That’s p.j. in the middle, her dad on the right, his little brother–her uncle on the left. (The uncle has been Jay’s trusty plumbing side-kick the last few weeks. Jay wishes he had enough work to keep him helping every day. He’s wiry and capable, has a good
His mother does. She’s generous and wonderful. I never forget whose kid he is. Wherever I am? There’s always a mother on the other side, and his mom was a person I knew and liked as a teenager though we weren’t buddies, in different friend circles, when I heard who Joe’s mother was? Pssht. Heidi,
Heidi had this swimming day planned with Dannell and Alicia and the little cousins, but didn’t tell p.j. until this morning because she’d be confused and pester and be angry waiting. Well, Heidi said when she told her this morning p.j. was so excited she clenched her fists under her chin and her whole body shook. Her
Three years ago this week, Heidi and Joe were moving back into their house after living with us for just over three months due to a fire. Insurance covered the whole mess, but it was still a pretty draining ordeal being displaced for that long. My memories of the time they were here are good
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These are her socks. She doesn’t leave on socks for more than a minute–then they go flying to wherever. Even -15 F, no socks. Christmas Eve she wouldn’t put her socks back on to come up from the playroom to the church service, marched up all the stairs and over the icy tile in her bare feet. Very
