There was the usual Friday night sleep-over. Pinewood Derby in the morning. Party for Dad’s birthday, Sunday afternoon. Cake time! We have no pictures of the excellent carnival at Dannell’s school, though we’re still working eating the leftover popcorn. And that is the end of that. February awaits. Nothing but love, Val
It’s been post-holiday, post-vacation, inauguration funk within me. This whole week was such a drag. Back to reality: ugh. My parents are gone for a long time. It’s gloomy and dark. Just, ugh. Well, some kids came to play yesterday and they made me happy. There was a sleepover with this cousin who made her
We had a couple of guys here early in the week, nothing but fun all around, in every way. She’s just little and energetic, figuring things out. The vet came to our house today. She’s up to 37.5 pounds, the happily size of a usual Kindergartner. And all that sassy and cute. Artists at work:
Some pictures from the Birthday Party last night, where they did the New Year’s Eve countdown: Back home again, cluttery house, tree dry as toast: She’s been here many New Year’s Eves. First time she made it all the way to midnight. In the morning she was in my bed with me and Grandpa, tucked
It was a lovely long day, is not even over indeed yet, with a grandchild on her grandpa’s pillow now. This is a bouquet Kirsten sent to Maria, prettiest bouquet on the table: More flowers. I do love fresh flowers. Maria made this out of printer paper. Wow. A poo-tell: And the feasting begins. We
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We had this Monday night–Kari’s NHS night as a junior. It’s November. These are Tim’s bare knees. In November. Today I called my brother about some computer problem, and when I checked back with him to tell him we’d figured it out he said, “Yes, I called your house, and some Manly-Type Person told me
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It was a long, weird week. Progress continued on the painting–looking excellent. More work was done today. We cleaned up the patio, but these guys took things out again on Tuesday. That’s all right. There was energy to burn. Yesterday Alicia’s car was being worked on, so she came to our house to wait the
We worked on leaves. Tim ran the mower. He got up there scraping, and it was worse than it looked from the ground. I cleaned the kitchen cupboards and drawers. I enjoy washing the pretty dishes and putting them back all sparkly in clean cupboards. (Dealing with drawers and tossing expired spices? Meh.) The stove
