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love, Val

 It’s doing it again.  Again. We can’t seem to get out of this winter.   See that happy face.  I was asking her if she wanted to go over any math.  It is pretty obvious she does not.      That’s fine.  Tomorrow works too.  Or Saturday.  Whatever.   The kids are outside trying to

I went to gather the stuff to wrap my mom’s birthday present, then came back to the room.   Yep, that’s the scotch tape, and those are Fruity Pebbles stuck to her nose.    I have another roll of tape, so it’s all good.  When John and Dan were little I used to often think, “When I

 Last Thursday Alicia texted me at like 9:30 at night wondering if we wanted to go to the pool in the morning. Ugh. It felt almost like, “Feel like having a root canal?”  I thought for a minute about that and the reasons I didn’t want to were 100% don’t want to be: 1.  cold

 Like that?    Dang kids fooling around, made a hole in the bathroom wall. Most of the walls in this house are plaster and hard as cement.  But this family room was added on in 2003, so that part of the house has sheet rock. Tim said, “Yeah, it’s like there was a soft spot in

 That’s why I have to remind myself I’m lucky.  This little bulb garden has it right. But this picture below is from lunch time today.  Lunch time!   Does that look like noon?  No, it looks horrible! And I’m sick of myself and everyone complaining about the weather as much as sick of the weather itself.

Okay this is a game Lydia, aka Kari picked out for her birthday when she went shopping with Grandma.  I don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s the Dog Crap Game. (My mom and mother in law are the same in this: On a kid’s birthday shopping trip, they don’t ask questions or judge.  I

Kirsten’s photography from early this morning. Sigh. We had a good day today at the mall shopping for all sorts of things, and the girls had their EARS PIERCED, (insert giddy excitedness.) Onward.  It was a great Friday.  love, Val

This week we have been cracking up, so today we rounded up some craft kits to help.  We also shopped for Easter dresses and went to Applebee’s for lunch.  We went all-out. This winter is NOT going to hold us hostage no more. I bought the kids flip flops and Tim a bathing suit, and

We got your ice right here.  I drove home (only car on the side roads) late tonight, and it was all thin ice. Driving was slow–gingerly rounding the corners, taking a long look at green lights for cross traffic who might be unable to stop. Okay, this is a picture I took as evidence.  THAT