The parade route goes right past her house, so she invited us all for snacks and parade viewing, pretty nice. The food was awesome–little bbq weenies, several kinds of dip, cheese and crackers, and fruit and strawberry shortcake. Kirsten knows how to cook. Her roommate, Nick, looked at the food and asked if she was […]
Tonight we tackled that hell-hole. Jay’s been working on Tim’s room, so he’s been relocated to the guest room where Joe and Heidi lived this winter. Wheee. You can imagine. There’s a thing called The Gray Layer. It lives in nooks and crannies, under couch cushions. You know it when you see it. It’s Barbie
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My sweetie came to stay. His brother is pretty sweet too. He tried to wake up Uncle Tim, but Tim was NOT in the mood for morning. I overheard him telling t.c., “This is the reason I’m keeping the quilt OVER my head–because you are loud and a-noxious.” Wow. That’s blunt to an overly energetic
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This morning I almost overslept. Oh, yeah. A person was expecting me at noon, so I had to leave here at 11:30. I woke up at ten til 11. Yes, really. I slept the entire morning. I mean, I knew I was tired, but not THAT tired, teenager wiped out? Apparently. I made it to
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jimmy and timmy, back in the day The winter. Continues on. The snow is so deep, Becka described her driveway as a canyon. Ours has snowbanks so high we have to creep out onto the road, sneaking and peeking, trying to see before we plunge out into traffic. Last night when I drove home at
But that was quite a long time ago. I gave him a pair of luxurious down-filled mittens. They’re still in the mitten box now. We had a party tonight, of course. He loves ribs and potato salad, so he made both last night while I was working–between driving kids to basketball, he cooked. Excellent results.
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Heidi’s friends held a baby shower for her yesterday. We were pretty impressed by the decorating, the cake, the food–oh my goodness the food. These people can cook. They decorated a series of onesies for occasions through the baby’s first year, pretty cute, and the love that went into all this work was pretty evident.
All dressed up: I only took a couple pictures at church because it feels impolite, for some unknown reason. We were there early because the guys were ushers, so I sneaked a couple without flash. this is a friend’s son lighting candles. (he’s wearing his bell ringer gloves.) The service was gorgeous–beautiful music, formal, elegant,
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Tonight was our 23rd of December family Christmas party. It did not disappoint. The usual characters, the usual noise, torn up wrapping paper, giddy kids were there. We had the usual shrimp and meatballs, cheesy potatoes, and salads by both Alicia and Jay, the little weenies and the gingerbread. There was a bottle of pinot
john dancing with his great-grandma Tim’s in vision therapy these days, has been for a bit now. I’m not normally around mainstream parents much. There’s no special reason for that. I’m not around alternative parents much either. Life evolves, I guess. So. Now I’m at vision therapy and in the waiting room a couple times
