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Happy Birthday, my dear! You make everything better and more fun. This whole family is better with you in it. Happy Birthday and love for always, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

The dog thinks she’s a person Ahh, this neighbor kid is one of the family, for sure. Gifts! Cake!  What a great party. All the long years we could not be together for occasions like this seems kind of long ago now, but we haven’t forgotten it–will never take this for granted again, long afternoon

The science event was last week, so this morning since it was still set up during church, headed over to see the display. There were a lot of projects, and they were all interesting and cool. They described their ideas, the process, the data, the conclusions on each one. Really nice.   The gloves were a

The warnings went on all week about it. Schools closed, announcing on early in the week about the dread heading for us. Bah. Perfectly ordinary snowfall.  I mean, it was fine they cancelled everything and prepared.  It sure made those couple days much easier to manage overall, but hardly the storm of the century they

All the kids were off school for Presidents Day so Heidi gathered them up and they hung out here. They were a little bored, set up a game in the kitchen where they pretended they were running a drive through, and they passed out diet coke and chow mein noodles and Pringles chips.   Whatever passes

  Pictures loaded from the end to the beginning. This is the end, first kid asleep, magic bathrobe at work. We made beds on the couch and on the floor. Something weird is happening with the bananas, and a lot of weird things went on with that toilet game on the kitchen table. I heard

What a great birthday!! Beautiful child Still the same I hope this is the best year yet. Lucky us, having you. Happy Birthday, with love for always,   Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody 

We  had tortellini soup, and then I headed out for the evening’s real estate appointment. Here Tim’s leading a game of trivial pursuit.  Their answers were interesting. In the morning, we tried to think of something fun to do with the day.   Lots of ideas were considered.  We only had room for five in the

The weekend started out Friday night with a sleepover.   The whole weekend was blissfully quiet, just kids and cooking, nothing more. Then, all the real estate broke loose.   There were people who wanted to see houses, and offers came in on a listing, and all at once Saturday spiraled into overdrive. But this was Friday,

In the evening we went back to the boardwalk.  It’s cooler there in the evening. We took a walk on this beach on the north side, near where we stayed a few years ago. It’s a very nice beach, not as crowded as the main ones. Love, Val