This kids were home today with James, Little Jay, and Kari in charge while Maria and I drove out to Wisconsin to register for her classes at the university for the fall. It was a gorgeous day on the college campus, and I wished I had my camera along, but did not. When Maria asked […]
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I dug through the buffet with the photo albums and pulled out a random album, looking for pictures of John. This album is dated 2005. Jay pointed out to me that Little Jay is steering the boat in this photo, and this was taken several years before he got his glasses. Whee. That was a
It wound down quietly. On Tuesday night while I was working, there was t.c. on the phone, “Gramma, can you come to my program?” Dannell did mention this a few weeks ago, but it was lost in the sea of details around here I said, “When is it? “Tomorrow.” “What time?” “Nine o’clock.” “I will
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My phone rang tonight at ten before midnight. I was just home from working and Jay wanted me to listen to a funny call on the business answering machine. While we were messing around with that, my cell phone rang. I glanced at the caller–of course it was John. Nobody else ever calls me
Here he is, big eyes while they try to get the cake ready. It was a great party, hosted in the big room at John’s work. Here’s the biggest brother, cooperating nicely for a picture. He’s got no front teeth still, but he’s so grown up these days. Yes, these favorite women were there: Here’s
Big, little. I don’t even know what to say about you and all the happiness you’ve brought us. There’s never been anyone in the whole world quite like you. Seven years of loving you–is that possible it’s been only seven years? It pretty much feels like we’ve always known you, like
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My Sweetie is turning four this week, and earlier in the week I called his parents (busy, working a lot, and sick at their house too) and said pretty much, “I have four days off, and I want to see my grandchild for his birthday.” So they helped us figure it out and tonight was
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It was the usual crowd in the living room, and the usual video games in the bedroom. This guy is taking steps now. He’s such an expert crawler though. There she is. I asked her how it was being thirteen. She laughed. Nothing changes. Awww, in this picture he looks exactly like Dannell’s dad. And
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Here’s the birthday girl in the snow. love, Val
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Yesterday my sweetie, l.c. told me he had a pet snake. There’s the snake in Lydia’s hands below. I laughed and said that was a great pet: no poop, doesn’t eat much. Dannell said, “Yeah, except for when it choked him. That’s what we heard the other night, “My snake is choking me!” and he
