Okay, I just went looking for kids to kiss goodnight. I found a bunch. All good. Then I asked where Tim was? How about Julia? They’re sleeping with the legos. Oh, puh-leeze. Really? Yeah. So it’s all quiet as I cross the dark family room and head downstairs–and encounter Tim standing in the dim light […]
Okay, last night when I got home, there were Tim and Julia asleep in the bed in Tim’s room. Asleep! Since Heidi and Joe went back home, they’ve been camping in their room–that big room below the family room. I hear them at 1 am still laughing and building legos. They’re eating snacks, watching Nickelodeon,
“It was a January Saturday morning, cold and bright. Darkness would arrive before supper, but the morning was brilliant, reflected sunshine off snow. Basketball season had arrived, so to the gym we went. My son was given a ball and sent into the herd. I found a spot on the bleachers and sat down with
Jay told me to find this on YouTube because it reminds him of Tim. Yeah, I laughed. A lot. My favorite line is, “Where’d he get a balloon?” Oh, Tim, Tim, Tim. love, Mom
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our most excellent friend Okay, our friend was scheduled to come here tonight to hang out with us while his parents go out for dinner with Dan and Alicia, and John and Dannell. The kids were thrilled, haven’t seen him in about a month, much happiness. I used it as an excuse for them to
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see that glimmer of light? She was mad. Angrrrry. Lydia and m.c. wanted time alone, Friday. They wanted time to themselves, without her, little outrageous, scrappy, squirrely her. She was pretty insulted. In her huff she stormed and stomped, received some sympathy and also some suggestions that she forget about it and find something else
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This morning when I picked up James from band, it was so January–the sky completely white, the snowbanks bright white. The trees all looked tan and gray, even the pines looked a funny charcoal color, rather than green. Every house had a perfect white roof, white tendrils curling from all the chimneys. Ugh. I was
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I’ve heard of something called Cooking Mama. This is our Construction Mama: Tim took this thing as far as he could, which was impressively far, actually. But then it all got away from him and others had to help. These Knex are much tinier than the other ones we’ve had before, the tiny drawings and
Okay. Today was a quiet day, overcast and cold. I worked a while and wandered home, grabbed a cold leftover taco from the fridge and came in here to the computer to read the news. What’s happened in the old world so far today? I clicked the mouse, so the screen turned on, and suddenly
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Yeah. It’s up. The whole living room is glowy and beautiful. Julia was frustrated by how slow the process is. First a girl must wait for her dad to come home from work. Then the trailer has to be hooked up. The drive is not short. The tree was cut, shaken in the shaker, shoved
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