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It was a beautiful evening, celebrating with James, family and friends, lots of food. Congratulations James!    love, Mom and Dad and Everybody

 We made our way home from the cabin to attend a niece’s graduation party.  This mini van, ugly and dorky as it may be, is sure a comfortable in-between option for travel. Here’s Sidney, on my lap, wishing for Maria.  Only a few pictures were taken at the grad party, and not even one of

Today’s the day John turns 36. Every time I wrote a check today I wanted to write 6-11-79. That’s the day we first met, kind of like this: John, thank you for all these many years of friendship and love, for being such a dedicated brother, and for being such a fine, responsible citizen of

love, Val

 Here they are, with all of us, waiting for our food at the chinese take-out place. “It will be 30 minutes. We have to make more rice.” Okay. Well, all those containers of plain white rice went in the wastebasket today as we were packing the coolers to leave the lake. Nevermind. It was a

 Back in the day, on Memorial Day weekend, my mom’s parents and sisters would all rent cabins at the lake where we have our cabin now. We’d take up a whole resort for four or five days and have fun fishing and swimming. It was film cameras back then so I have only a handful

 I came across these on Facebook yesterday, had never seen them before. And these ones on Instagram made me laugh. And that brings us to the end of a pretty fine Saturday night. Onward. love you all so,  MOM

 We had a few kids here tonight, getting babysat.  Tim’s good. He can keep happy three kids at once.  He made me laugh very much today. We had packed bologna sandwiches and were heading off, going to eat those sandwiches for lunch. Maria expressed her scorn for bologna, “What is it, anyway?” Tim answered, “I’m

 We did have a good day, brunch at Heidi and Joe’s.  Heidi’s mother in law gifted her with a housecleaner, so someone came and cleaned. Then Joe did neatening and so forth last night so it was all ready.  Maria and I weren’t even needed at all.  It’s been a crazy couple weeks and I

 This week has flown by, lots of working. Above is a picture of James and Kari’s band concert.  It’s the last one for James. He’s moving on–college in the fall. Dang, that went fast. This is Dan and Alicia’s little girl who rolled over already. This is going very fast too.  This?  This, I’m sure,