It was a fine Thanksgiving Day. Here they are assembling a new shop vac. Apparently the plumber used ours to suck some noxious substances out of somebody else’s drain. Oh, we got a guy home from college dusting. And the tables were finally set: The usual characters were here: The eating began: Everybody brought food, […]
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I told they kids they should work on Christmas lists because after Thanksgiving, you know, the time will go fast until Christmas. What Tim told me he wants? A jet pack and a chainsaw. Well. Sigh. He added, “If I had those, I could do a LOT of stuff.” No doubt that’s true. I love
That’s what I’m doing tonight. I’ve done the other side underneath the rolled up rug and furniture, so at this point we’re almost done, only 1/4 left after this. I stripped all the old finish off, what was left of it anyway, crawled around rubbing with chemicals and steel wool. Then I sanded spots. You
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This girl is very, very mobile this week. Today she crawled from her safe little blanket in the family room out to the kitchen–just where a person wants a precious, beautiful baby, right? Going around the dirty floors. (Stay on your blanket, p.j.) No. Boring on the blanket. She was almost to the dog water
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We spent it doing what we do. Last night there were two kids still up after midnight, with a movie player in the quilts playing Toy Story II, two Nintendo DS thingies, and waaaay too much shrieking and thumping and carrying on. I was disgusted. Being all giddy and hilarious at 10:00 is one thing,
Which weren’t actually taken until the second day of school, but who cares? We got McDonald’s and went to the park for lunch. Here she’s got bbq sauce in her hair. And this child loves the french fries Here they found a little stick structure left by some other kids, someone else’s fairy house maybe.
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First we were driven inside by thunderstorms and Sidney and Payton shook in their skins. They hid between Kirsten and my dad on the couch. Then there was a boatload of Chinese food for a group of twenty-three. John handed me the box and I struggled to carry it to the table, it was so
Here you are with that bucket of tiny toads you and t.c. turned loose at the edge of the swamp. And a picture with the latest building kit from Grandma and Grandpa. You and dad put this together on Saturday–very nice. This is a picture of us ten days before you were born, T. Lookin’
t.c. = that character We had a party today, a big old kid party, though that wasn’t the plan starting out. John called late in the morning and asked if he could drop his kids off. Dannell has sick grandparents and had to go to the hospital. Absolutely. So there were freeze pops and the
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