Please. Do better. This is a phrase of Kirsten’s and it’s so appropriate for tonight. Jay plugged in the Christmas lights again for a joke. Good thing we swept the patio and got the furniture out, eh? But this crazy day is also my mother’s birthday. Here’s a picture of the two of us, taken […]
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On Friday, Dannell and I exchanged texts about when we could get together. After she texted me the Friday schedule, my only response was, “Wow.” Poor Dannell, she texted back, “What do you mean by, “Wow?” Nothing except a befuddled feeling, like Wow. What could possibly work here? So I proposed to her that me
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My parents hosted this party again this year. Everyone came, and it was great. Lydia was a crazy cat lady, and James came up with his costume shortly before we left, shoved a pillow under his shirt, and looked pretty ridiculous, his skinny self with a big belly. He teased his girlfriend, “Someday this is
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We drove out to my parents for the weekend. They live in town, but also have this little place in Wisconsin, the home place. So we went there and goofed around, and ate good food, and it was lovely and relaxing. The dress up clothes are always a favorite. And here they shot at old
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Here they are, trying to lure a sunfish into their basket. When Sam does actually catch a fish, she just rolls it around in her mouth for a minute and spits it out again, no harm done. These two girls were pretty happy to see each other. And my parents came to the lake too.
On Saturday we went to my parents’ place in Wisconsin. My parents made lunch for all this crew and we had a really good time. Inside this old log cabin are the toys–the dress up clothes and jewelry, the trucks and balls and pogo stick and who knows what all else. They keep busy for
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Yeah, it snowed, and we forged on and ignored the whole thing. Lydia had band and we invited outselves over to my parents’ for lunch. They seemed happy to have us. These are the kids eating milkshakes, handmade by my father. There he is in the background, wielding a mean blender. Julia’s hair was never
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There she is, beautiful. Here’s the doorway, pretty funny little shoe-fest–and that sunshine had everyone happy. The kids were happy to be there, to be together. A bunch of cousins had a good time: The little ones changed into pajamas eventually. The rest of us would have too if we’d brought them along. At
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I left the kids off at Bible School this morning at our church in the city. Yesterday I had signed up to hang around for the morning in case they needed help. The bible lesson was about the parable of the sower throwing seed down–some land on the path, some land on rocks, some in
These are chipmunks, which are somewhat like squirrels Just sayin’. Here’s my mother who came again today to help us wrangle babies. See little baldness, little mr. t.g.? He’s liking this walker thing. Look at this yard. It takes until July to heal the dog blight pee stains from the winter, and about then the
