Happy Birthday, Girlfriend. You are about the best. You’re an awesome friend, a great cousin, a lovely big sister. I love it when old clothes turn up again. There you are in your mother’s old flowered jacket from when she was a little girl. And you and Grandpa: So much love, my sweetheart. I hope […]
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Oh, March. Umm. I’m just so glad you’re here. Things don’t look that great today, but it’s going to get better. These pictures were taken today because they’re the AFTER pictures. That screen curtain was caught up in that big icicle and I threw about 20 buckets of hot water from the bathroom sink on
Look at you, all face and arm painted from the Blue and Gold banquet last weekend. Beautiful. This is a picture from back when you were born. That’s your family. Oh my goodness. This might be my favorite picture of you. You grinning beside Sam, have mercy. She was such a baby-tender and you were
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Saturday we made it to basketball. It was fun. Fourth grade basketball has not changed since we had fourth graders. He’s so fast and strong. That smile! Pizzas! This face painting was from the Blue and Gold banquet in the morning–very nice. They played Animal Crossing for a while late in the evening and there
It is. This has been the snowiest winter in a long time, and we’ll be glad for spring, but this reminds me again how much I like looking at winter, even though I don’t really love being IN it. Snow removal goes on and on– Last week of February, you crazy devil, Love, Val
These icicles–they’ve melted and froze over and over and now there’s a big lump of ice on the front steps so we can’t open the storm door. We have to walk all the way around the house to get the mail. Good grief. It’s temporary. Oh, but look at this–in the new part of the
We’re trying to find our way in a new routine again. We will. Right now, it’s time to slow way down and release any agenda, and kind of just roll with the days until we can figure out what structure and routine will feel right. It’s been lots of Toy Story 3, which was kind
When I was sorting the bookcase, I ran across this tiny little calendar. I loved the little illustrations very much at the time, and didn’t want to throw it away when the year ended, but what use is a 29 year old little tiny calendar anyway? Well The days of the week align this year
We were happy to go to this Ninja place for his birthday celebration. We didn’t know what to expect, but it was fun. You have to be five, so these two could not participate in the Ninja activities, but they didn’t seem to care. The young people in charge were kind and encouraging and even
The snowstorms are inconvenient, snarl traffic, cause school to be cancelled, but they are sure pretty. Saturday we went to the Model Train Museum. It’s a quite fun, low-key place. The adult train model is a huge spread of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Mississippi River, very impressive and detailed. Around the sides they have
