I haven’t seen my mom in a couple weeks now. I miss her. When she’s in town, I’m working. When I’m not at work, she’s long gone. I don’t like it, but we must live with it. Tonight when I got out of the bathtub and was putting on my pajamas, laughing to myself about […]
Tim’s room is done! Finally! We pulled it together yesterday, and it’s wonderful, not gonna lie. It can’t be toy storage either–that was a huge problem before, too much junk in the room. It was hard to take care of a room that cluttered. We were using the closets as clothes storage–outgrown clothes in one,
Yeah, my mom, her mother, my dad’s mother, and my mother-in-law, the women who taught me how to be a mom–thank goodness for them. This is my dad’s mom beside me, happy on our wedding day. This is a picture of my mother-in-law, and HER mother, reading stories to the grandkids. Some crackers had spilled
Her, yep. The nicest woman in the world had a birthday this weekend. This party started because I asked her what she was doing on her birthday, and pretty soon it mushroomed, as these parties will do. If we get together we should include my siblings, who must include their kids because the kids live
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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pretty b.g Yesterday was actually a finer than usual Thursday. Heidi called Wednesday and asked if I wanted to help her put away baby stuff. Absolutely! Yes, yes yes! That baby is due any day. Heidi’s hoping for next weekend. We had fun. Tim and Julia helped me carry all the baby stuff from the
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It’s our 32nd anniversary. what is up with this picture? why do we look so excited? i cannot remember. My parents took us out for dinner, pretty nice. They offered to take the whole family, all the kids. No. Absolutely not. No children involved. They’ve been married almost 50 years. Only us. We had a
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 the Halloween party at my parents. It was loud, and rowdy, and awesome. At one point my mom said her head was swimming. I teased her, “At least none of them brought their dogs.” She hooted. (Anyway, this marks the one year point of this blog too, by the way. I started it
Yesterday in line at the second hand shop, Kari came running at the last minute with a little dalmatian puppy figurine, and as she rounded the corner it slipped out of her hands and hit the tile. She looked horrified. Two legs broke off, not quite shattered, but in a number of pieces. She gathered
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