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 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,

 Dan texted me this morning, offering to come over and help with our computer problems.  (That’s a picture of him and Grandpa and the little guy in the plumbing office.) I’m not saying no to that offer no matter what. We had issues. They are now resolved.  Already tonight, this was transformational.  A task that

 It was a great program, a Sweetie singing.  His brothers and sister and parents were there too, and a cousin and an aunt and uncle. We had fun.  They sang crazy sons like On Top of Spaghetti.  It was a great day. After this program we went back over to their house for a while,

 Okay, who took these pictures? And why?  That’s all right, and one reason I like digital so much–delete.  It’s not like film camera where y ou have to develop nonsense like this.  The last overgrown arborvitae went away. It’s better.  But the new is kind of leaving me cold. It’s like the kitchen curtains.  Apparently

There was a party end of last week to celebrate Mom’s birthday. It was a well-attended occasion.  We sang Happy Birthday to this little buddy too:  That’s Miss Cake-Cake under that sweashirt:  This little girl of John and Dannell’s was talking to us like crazy.  Here’s a mysterious and intriguing painting by my dad.  I

There are those ones–you know the kind.  They capture something so splendid and perfect about that moment, that you can hardly pull your eyes away. For me, this is one of them. It’s my mom’s parents, both grinning ear to ear, and my mother, the serious baby seated in the middle. The original is about

It was a beautiful morning, cool and bright, with a meeting at the office and then fetching p.j. from preschool. The front steps project is going well.   He’s going to do a little more work on it and then we’ll seal the whole thing with epoxy and hope for the best.  And yard waste