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Be back tomorrow  What a great day. Love Val and Everybody

 This morning when I drove to Heidi’s the clouds were beautiful in the steely cold air.  The Mississippi River was completely obscured by huge, billowing clouds of steam. This is from another day, these two scrappy sisters. This morning the older one showed me a mark along her ribs where the little one had bit

I took this picture out the back steps this morning while I waited for the dog. It’s that bitter cold where you step one foot outside to get the mail and it all freezes up in your nose like ZIP. Pretty, yes. Winter is so beautiful.  Uninhabitable, but beautiful. This child is our Boss Baby. 

 These are a few pictures of the art crew on Monday, busy working.  Whoops! And then why?? Why do these things go off the rails? Who cares?  They’re washable paints, no harm done. Today we had to get OUUUT of this boring winter house so we went to Target after lunch and bought sparkly rain

This photo hit right in the chest, and that’s the truth, her tiny fragile little self.  I have not held her since the day after her baptism in December, and that day we had no idea how sick she would be in just one more day. It’s been a very long five weeks. She’s okay.

 Jay made it to some basketball games, enjoyed himself thoroughly.  Kid basketball never changes, and for that we’re kind of grateful. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and a  bunch of kids are coming here to be babysat, so I stopped at Michael’s for some craft supplies, paints and stickers, sun catchers, markers.  It

 This morning Heather came and stayed with the girls while I drove to St. Paul to get signatures on a real estate offer. Then we went to my office to drop off the check from yesterday’s closing.   My sales manager and his wife are sweet, welcomed the kids. We were only there a minute. After

 Cleaning the basement–downsizing mittens and snow clothes again.   I’ve done this before, sent all the kid sized snow pants to Alicia, sent away mittens and hats. Having so many kids, we had accumulated a shocking amount of snow clothes. Now we’re down to this little tiny mitten box.  Cute hat and scarf sets, but also

Awww, so sweet. Love, Grandma and Grandpa

 Some friends gave us this dresser they didn’t need anymore, so it has taken up a home in the family room.  Someday we’ll furnish this room properly, but for now, it’s working great. Today we went to my parents for lunch.  Kari and James will be back to college shortly. Winter break is wrapping up,