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 That’s her. Ten years of pure sunshine. She was born in the middle of the night, after we’d spent the day at the beach.  Yep, a July morning ten years ago: See you soon, Girl  love, all of us

 These girls were here when I got home this morning.  I wanted to take a picture of the sisters:  The big sister took these pictures with my camera: And yes, a one second long video. You go ahead and enjoy that now.  For one second. Happy Tuesday in June.  love, Val

love you all, Val, aka MOM, aka GRANDMA

 Heidi bought this kit do to hand prints of the girls and mount this inside an insulated cup as a gift for Joe.   p.j. was easy to do.  But the sister, not so much. The hands were ruled out pretty  quickly, but it still wasn’t easy to get a footprint. Ahhh, job done, and

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