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This is a big deal for Cub Scouts, and it went very well. This is a small Cub Scout pack at their small school–everyone knows each other.  Those beautiful cars were so much work to create, as well as trying to involve the kids so they feel ownership of the creation.   They were sick, including […]

Happy Birthday, indeed. It was a gorgeous, warm, sunny day, just absolutely perfect.  In the evening we opened a few gifts:  With the teeth, always the dramatic performance to amuse the children.  Oh, big surprise! Shorts!  (You are a good sport.)  Guessing what’s in the package:  Tearing it open with the teeth:  More guesses:  That

It’s been a mess today, but schools closed early and everyone was prepared to cut the day short and get off the roads. These are pictures from the weekend, rowdies kicking it up on my bed.  Saturday night we went to a Housewarming Party at these people’s house.  It was so fun to see their

It was gorgeous today.  After weeks of deep cold, this warm weather and sun were incredibly welcome.  She’s working her toys.   That big one on her lap was Kari’s.  Guess we’ve got our use out of that.  Here she’s playing in the doll corner, taking care of babies.  The duplo blocks were grubby as heck,

 This week it’s been very cold again.  Jay goes back and forth all bundled up.  Some of the construction projects he’s working on are outdoors, so he’s been doing service calls instead–will get back to those when it’s warmer. But it’s warm inside the house and we spend the day taking care of these two. 

 After Julia’s orthodontist appointment we went to my parents for lunch. We didn’t know it, but the little girl on the couch asleep was coming down with strep throat, just like her sister and two other cousins. But we ate, and played with toys, and eventually this fine nap finished out the afternoon.  Now they’re

 There were pine needles everywhere. Here’s all the mish-mash of weird Christmas lights wound up to confuse and frustrate us next year. Cords and plug ins, all goofy.  I had a tall grandchild climb up onto the cupboard and pull the Santa sleigh back off the wall. All these festive cardboard guys, year after year:

Our very dead and toasty, crunchy Christmas tree above, and this festive Santa from the 70’s below, something fun from my sweet Grandma: We’ve got your sparkling cider and chocolate cake cooling on the patio.  It wasn’t even up to zero all weekend, so this is a very chilly cooler. Aww, now that’s a pretty

 This is the little sister. She’s getting more civilized by the day.  But apparently there was a situation where she was in possession of her sister’s lip balm.  And she rubbed it all over her feet. Okay, that’s not right. Then she complained that her feet were so greasy. Well. We all do have our

 We hosted Christmas Eve last night, very fun.  Jay did a test run on the Swedish Meatballs a couple weeks ago–all good. Here are Jay and my sister’s husband Paul, dressed alike, looking like brothers.  Later that night, we had Midnight Santa, also awesome: Little, exhausted Frankie:  And then we slept late this Christmas morning