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 Maria went for a long weekend to visit Kirby. They had a good time, from what I hear.  I love the pictures.  Florida is beautiful. Back in Minneapolis, it’s warm and dark, muddy, days getting longer.  This baby is walking, and these two are mud monsters, constantly outside, requiring towels and stompy boots. Yes, she’s […]

 It’s another dark, warm, rainy day.  James’ room is coming back together.  The condition of the green paint was questionable, but then I saw the label–it was from September, 2009.  Yeah, that’s going to be sketchy.  It looks okay though, and I really didn’t want to re-paint the entire room.  The ceiling, sure, fine. But

 Today feels like a Friday, don’t know why. I think it’s the dark, warm day, feels full of possibilities and the very March slant the light seems to have this week. The end is in sight, in other words. Yesterday was our 37th anniversary, pleasant and ordinary, just a usual Wednesday.  The little girl is

 We had a bunch of kids here, going nuts in the house.  It’s got a little edge of spring fever to it already.  Jay started working on the plaster in James’ room yesterday.  He works fast.  Already it’s looking improved and under control. Then I wandered to Kari’s room. She’s rearranging furniture and doing things

 This was last week, working on Valentines.  This is a painting, but before this she brought me orange construction paper and asked me to cut out hearts.   I gave them back to her and she left. I saw her over at the table working with crayons and glitter, but I was hanging out with

My friend Renee’ takes a lot of beautiful pictures, but this one took my breath away. You’re amazing. I love you, Val

 We had a sleepover Friday night.   They wanted curls so we put the sponge rollers in the little girl, and the bigger girl did lots of small braids. Then they went to the fluffy rug in the family room to work on cartwheels.  Well, James had not seen p.j. do cartwheels before, and especially

Snow arrived on schedule today at lunchtime, blowing and drifting, not all that cold, but slippery roads. Inside the house, as usual, 72 balmy degrees.  This is a picture from yesterday of two cousins playing.  She’s the leader, full of ideas.  He’s the willing follower.  She has elaborate story lines mapped out, which he seems

 A bunch of cousins were here today, going nuts. More would have even joined, but I couldn’t be sure they’d all be safe with just little old me in charge.  These are the baby sisters, the girl cousins, happily eating tater tots for lunch.  She wanted her picture taken too. She’s never been big on

Happy Birthday Beautiful Girl. You’re only been here one single year, and that’s kind of confusing to believe because it feels like you’ve always been one of us.  (These are pictures from the day you were born.) And your dad says the same thing too, how sometimes he looks at you and is completely blown