two pictures from Friday
This one was taken at the bedroom window, above. And Sidney, happy Maria is home for the weekend. love, Val
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moving the girl in, and more
The directions were: Leave all your crap on the curb. Go park your vehicle, and then come back and carry stuff up to the room. They had volunteer College Welcome kids there to help, but Maria packed light. We could do it ourselves. It was a gorgeous morning, sunny and bright, not too hot yet.
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no pudding for you
Here’s Maria. Today was the day the wisdom teeth came out. I used to think this was somewhat of a racket, an invented problem. Now I’m not sure. Jay’s wisdom teeth finally caused him trouble in his thirties and it was a tough surgery. His upper sinus cavity was punctured in the process and he
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registration and a party
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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random pictures from the party
Okay, here’s the graduate with her cake. When I went to pick this sucker up on Thursday, the bakery people realized by our conversation that the party wasn’t until the next day, over 24 hours later. They asked if I had a refrigerator big enough to house this cake? Nooo. I have two refrigerators, but
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maria’s graduation day
Here’s the graduate: The ceremony was outside, though that seemed like sketchy plan with the clouds, cold, and rainy mist. The principal spoke. The band played. James is there somewhere, but I can’t see him. There was quite a search for the black dress pants too, but they were finally found, right in the closet
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and the pops concert
This was Friday night after we’d been to The Children’s Museum. They were tired, and a bit unenthusiastic. Tim asked how long it was. I told him two hours. “How long is THAT?” “Well, like church times two. Like church twice.” He rolled his eyes and threw himself back in the chair. But it was
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10-11-12 that’s a cool date
I like it. Today was the day the front closet was finally cleaned. It’s been years, but it’s also easy to keep stuffing more and more in there and continue to ignore. As the closet was emptied out, it was pretty dang amazing how much was in there. The trunk of my car is full
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maria turns eighteen
Happy Birthday Beautiful Girl. The cake was a bit crumb-challenged. We also left our cake plate at Dan and Alicia’s so we had to break out the Christmas one. It worked. These people were there. And that’s about that. Eighteen years ago we were so happy to see you. Here am I dressing you the
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a poo-TELL
We went to the lake this weekend and took two cars. This meant some kids and Sam went with Little Jay and some went with US. We got Maria and Sidney who are very calm. And we got these two, who are not. On the ride, in his boredom, Tim drew himself a tiny little