Jacob and Marcia

My friend Ally is getting baptized on Sunday.  She had her interview in Carthage today, so I took her up so she would have company/support.  We did the tour of the Carthage Jail.  I know it surrounds a sad event, but there is such a spirit there.  It was a good trip. I am grateful [...]

I did dishes today for longer than I ever like doing them. I guess that means it was longer than say, 60 seconds. Anyhow, my hands get all dried out and crack and bleed in the winter. Dishes do not help my winter hands. I really need summer! Or Ecuador, [...]

Ronda called me and said they needed to “get out of this place.” So I told them to come on over. We had fun. The girls and Gavyn ran all over, climbed the stairs (and the piano). Then as the younger generation started to fall asleep, we started playing games. [...]

I was at WallyWorld this evening looking for treat supplies. I was standing in the cookie aisle trying to decide if what I wanted to do would work better with regular sized oreos, or the minis. I decided on the regular and turned to put the package into my cart when just [...]

*I am writing this well after the fact as though it is current, and pre-dating my post. As it is my site, I reserve the right to do so*
I was in the infant/toddler side today. I was hobbling and playing with the little ones. It is always a good time. However this [...]

*I am writing this well after the fact as though it is current, and pre-dating my post. As it is my site, I reserve the right to do so*
I was at place* and was not really watching where I was walking.  I took a step** and my foot rolled out from under me.  I heard [...]

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That is right, we got the tree. A pre-light one too. And amazingly enough, I think it looks better than the picture on the box!

Some day I would like to get a royal blue Star of David to top the tree.**
* I am writing this well after the fact as [...]

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The best thing about the feasting holidays is the left over food.  We** made hot browns with Jacob’s family today, it was really good.
We had to go to the*** store to get a few needed items for the hot browns, so while we were there we decided to just price check Christmas trees.  We found [...]

Admission of delinquency *
Today we had thanksgiving at Jacob’s parents’ house with his mom’s family.  It was a lot of fun.  I really do like that this year all of our places to attend held festivities on different days!  It meant that we got to spend more time with each family, and less stress driving.  [...]

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Today we went to my mom’s house. There were people, foods, and cakes. Yes, there was cake. It was my mother’s 100th** Birthday. I had my camera out only a bit, so there are only a few pictures, and mostly of little people.
Jacob was a babe magnet the whole time
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Sunday we were playing with the laser pointer. That was a lot of fun. But some time on the way home, or yesterday, the cap went missing. It makes me sad, mostly because it means things are out of their order. I looked in my car and out on the ground [...]

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana [...]

We went to my dad’s house today for the big dinner. There was good food, and lots of good company. Here are pictures and a video.
Jacob and Geneva
Gavyn likes to play with Skyler (look at that smile)
Katy and Sarah cuddling
Mallory drinking from Jesse’s cup
Abby holding Geneva holding Boo (see [...]

I am not really all that into sports, but I love to play volleyball and soccer (the true football). Today was the Stake Volleyball Tournament for Church. My friends that are in charge of organizing it called me and asked if I could help out with the sign-in process (Corey had to be [...]

Today I had to make a trip half an hour away, spend my 7 minutes and turn around and come home. It would have only been 3 minutes there, but I had to stop by DQ and get the delicious Pumpkin Pie Blizzards to bring home to Jacob (I had one too).
As I drive [...]

Last Friday our friend, Howard Kalwies passed away. Today was his memorial service. It was a good service. There were good talks, and beautiful musical numbers. Jacob played the organ and accompanied (on the piano) the violinist, Karen Martin. She played/s so beautifully. It makes me wish I could [...]

Jacob and I actually made a menu for the the week and I shopped off the menu. Go us!
While shopping, I saw a mom that was playing with her daughter in the cart. I am guessing the girl to be about 5 years old. They were playing and I thought about how [...]

Really, I am not quite sure what or where the stinky closet is.
We had our friends, Jason, Jessie and Aiden over to watch Ratatouille and eat supper. We ate breakfast-for-supper with homemade syrup. We had some extra syrup, so we sent some home with them.
While I was crouched down looking for a container [...]

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana [...]

But it has a fun story.

For Halloween we used dry ice in our punch.  Andrew was “drinking” the fog.  It looked really cool.  Dry ice kind of sounds like it is screaming when you press metal against it.  I will have to put a little video of that on the site some time soon.

Yesterday five of us went to St. Louis to do some dry packing of a large food order. It was a new experience for me to go do that . Because we have to drive three hours to get there, and it was a pretty big order, we called ahead and had a [...]

Tonight I was driving home in the dark with my lights on.  I was in the south bound lane.  Suddenly I see two lights reflecting back at me about 5-6 feet off the ground.  I engaged my brakes.  I was with in feet of hitting some guy on a bike.  No reflectors, [...]

I was working at the preschool again today. Being Friday, it is share-day.
Girl T-age 3: I don’t have anything to share!
Mr S: I don’t either (in a whiny voice)
T: I want to share my Elmo
S: What should you do then?
LONG PAUSE
5 or 6 kids: Go get it!
Boy J-age 4: [...]

Today I was at the preschool again. It was fun. However, first thing I learned was that one of the little boys (who was there yesterday, but not today) has/had lice. So everything in the room was getting a spin in the washer. I don’t notice any on me; I hope [...]