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Watching “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” last year.

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Watching “The Grinch” this year.

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” —Rabindranath Tagore

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    The kids and my nieces were playing in the spare bedroom, my old bedroom, at my parents’ house this weekend. They wanted more light and couldn’t figure out how to open the linen shade so they made their own drapery tie ... out of toilet paper. My mom asked Sophie to make her a cake for her birthday. Sophie made a gondola for the top (to reflect an upcoming trip), yellow roses (my mom’s favorite) with vines, and then Sophie made “quilt squares” where she drew pictures of the places my parents have visited. The heat and car ride made things a bit droopy by the time we arrived but my mom calmed all of Sophie’s tears, just as she’s done as a mom for more than half her life. Happy birthday, Mom! And happy birthday to Natalie, my sweet, red-headed niece who was born the day my mom turned 60. We had so much fun celebrating this weekend! Our Girl Scout troop was able to participate in the (very hot but fun) NKY Picnic Table Project community picnic this weekend. And now the table has found its happy home at Woodfill Elementary. messy porch, happy cat James is having an ok summer. The dust on these individually hand-formed Murano glass petals finally got to me (despite all the other cleaning I should be doing for Andy’s birthday celebration tomorrow). Thirty-some petals unscrewed, washed and drying, 40-some to go. This chandelier is a b**** to clean. But to this day it’s still my greatest Craigslist find and a testament to Andy’s great patience with, and love for, me. ❤️ http://www.pleiadesbee.com/2012/03/our-chandelier.html I spent the weekend with my dear friend, Linda. She owns a beautiful patch of land in Three Forks, KY, and each night we sat on her front porch and watched thousands of fireflies rise out of the Queen Anne’s lace-filled meadows, up into the trees, and it was just magical. Thank you, Linda, for your never-ending generosity and love. I can’t wait to see you again! That yellow floor! yesterday morning, Three Forks, KY last night, Three Forks, KY The kids have spent the last week building Jupiter a multi-room castle out of boxes (it takes up half the entry). Today they wired up a disco ball for him in his “living room” and now I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to ask them to tear the thing down because, well, how could you? The car might be totaled, Andy threw out his back, the deck railing broke, Andy got stung by a wasp and now suspects a nest on our porch, the gutters are clogged so we have tarps draping two sides of our house that need adjusted in every storm and tonight we left the boys’ rained-out baseball game muddy and wet. Small things, in the scheme of things. But also: A dear friend dropped these off today, my parents took the boys tonight and early this evening our yard was filled with neighbors cutting and stacking wood. ❤️ (Thank you.) My sister pointed out the irony of our current situation. Our is on our . Summer!
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