It’s been a good enough week, a few trips to the pool, a little time with friends, a little softball, lots of sunny days. Here we met up with b.g. and his other grandma at the pool again. He lights up when he sees the kids. It’s fun that he obviously recognizes them even in […]
We spent the weekend with my parents, had a great time. It rained a while and we watched these birds bring food to their babies. All day long, every five or ten minutes there they were, shoving bugs to the babies. My dad says those babies are ready to fly any day. the rain, the
a random kid…they’re not sure who he is The kids are playing softball, and last night was picture night. We took them all over there, in their softball shirts, and photos were taken. Seemed fine. Well, this morning I had an email from Tim’s coach, saying pictures were tonight at 7:15. Weird. I emailed him
three sisters These are some of Kirsten’s pics from Memorial Day: a big girl a big girl fishing–this keeps her absorbed for hours a tired boat ride beautiful lydia james and bella bella is as fascinated by frisbee as sam is with fishing swimming Oh, how I love summer. love, Val
We’re doing vacation bible school this week. It’s been two days, with three more to go. It’s fun. I’m exhausted, but that’s okay. The exhaustion is something else–something is wrong lately where I lack energy, and it’s more noticeable at bible school. I suppose it’s because I have to get up early and can’t go
When I came home from work today, Julia and Tim showed me the kite they’d made. It was cute and tiny. They’d found sticks in the yard to use for the frame, and ribbons from a graduation balloon for the tail. Adorable and funny–I liked it. Later they offered to demonstrate flying it. Jay snickered
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We are getting ready for Little Jay’s graduation party next Friday. Oh, yeah. Jay put roasts in the oven to cook and then did landscaping clean up. In the rain, he did this. Yep. He doesn’t even complain. I don’t get it. He’ll wail away about government paperwork, but with rain dribbling down the neck
The afternoon was spent amusing b.g. on the patio, and also catching bugs. Santa gave Tim this little device with a magnifying lens for looking at bugs, and it is pretty fun. He used a catalpa pod to flick them into the tube and then turned the lens so we could see them, and then
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This is where the kids believe the tooth fairy lives. None of them have ever caught her at home… But that doesn’t stop them from checking. love, Val
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a superb weekend. Yesterday morning I took Tim over to my parents to see the digger dig up their back yard. They’ve got a project going on and Tim looooves equipment. (He has even referred to my Kitchen Aid mixer as, “the equipment.” Power tools, yah, yah.) The guy dug, the bucket scraping against the
