This is something from Maria’s friend, Heather. She’s a very tender, understated person, who creates videos that are both funny and beautiful. Enjoy, enjoy. 2011 is almost over and it’s been okay. 2012 may be pretty wonderful. We hope so. love, Val
Maria told me a certain kind of soap, made by a company called Soap and Glory, smells like Lori. She was ten when Lori died, so I trust her memory. I ordered a bottle of bath gel, and it arrived today. I washed my hands with it, and she was right. I stood there in
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I’ve been informed that the kids ate the last of the mints–the specially delicious chocolate mints the plumbing wholesaler gave Jay. Then they took the empty wrappers and wrapped bits of fart putty in the foil and offered them to the older kids. Aren’t they sweet? Those little angels. Kids are crazy, and that’s a
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We are home. It was a great week, and it’s great to be back. Kirsten picked us up from the airport at 12:30 am, and we were in bed by two. But first we looked at pictures and heard their adventures of the week, and they heard ours. Tim and Julia were too tired to
Here are a few pictures in no particular order: The weather is gorgeous, the resort plush, the company easy-going. We are having a great week, just kind of MISS YOU GUYS. I’m looking forward to baking cookies on Saturday. We love you all so, Mom and Dad
Tonight was the kids’ band concert, and it was a really nice concert too. This was lunch. We did eventually get this disheveled house neatened up. A niece and an auntie: This was a gorgeous nap. I fell asleep before he did and he kept waking me up, “Gramma, milk all gone.” “Okay, fine. Just
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I know some. Okay this kid was at church yesterday sitting beside me in the pew, and I noticed the price tag was still dangling from his shoe. I dug in my purse for a little scissor to cut that plastic loop. I whispered to Jay, “You know, this is not even the first time
click the pictuer above twice to enlarge. hear the grasshoppers, smell the grass. It was a spectacular morning. Bright sunshine, quiet, warm breeze. They wanted to know if they could swim after breakfast, and I couldn’t think of a reason why not. The whole morning was sparkly like this, absolutely gorgeous. Oh, onward to Monday.
It was so hot and humid that when I went outside to take a picture, the lens fogged. And that is an actual human infant, not a doll. She’s a funny little girl now, almost six months old. That little fence was erected to keep Sam out of the big window well back in her
I drove home late tonight, window in the roof of the car open, just because I can, and because it’s such a sultry, beautiful night. The Avett Brothers sang first in the dark, and then the Beatles, “Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn’t last. Jojo left
