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This morning, as I was brushing Carolyn’s hair, Anna was jumping from sunbeam to sunbeam in the hallway, clapping her hands as though to catch something in the air. She had a look of absolute delight on her face. Me: Anna, what are you doing?? Anna: I’m trying to catch the air fuzzies! I like [...]
I just drove home from work, feeling rather tired and thinking I’d go to bed relatively early tonight. As I passed the back entrance to the school campus, I had my eyes peeled since I’d seen deer on my way into work along this road. Just before I reached the top of the hill, though, [...]
I had this feeling, this morning, that Carolyn’s tooth that had started being very slightly wiggly an entire year ago might not be around too much longer – it had become very, very wiggly in the past few weeks. It even had an adult tooth coming up behind it already, because it was being so [...]
It’s pretty easy to get the girls on board with raking leaves when there’s a promise of jumping in the big pile at the end! And now the payoff:
(Yes, it’s a bit past Halloween, but since I featured Carolyn’s costume last week I thought it only fair to put up Anna’s pictures this week!)
Carolyn recently joined Girl Scouts – as a second grader, she’s a Brownie. At her very first meeting, her name was drawn to bring Brownie the Bear home for a two-week visit. Brownie leaves to visit someone else’s house tonight, so we thought we’d take a couple of pictures so we could remember her!