The past few days have been a nice mix of connecting with friends and stretches of down time. Last night we went to Richardsons for dinner and a little “Catch Phrase”. Katie had a group of girls spend the night. Nice connecting with her high school friends and finding out what they are all up [...]
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Katie, Bill and I all slept in late today. Nice not having an agenda that needed to get done. Bill checked the post office one more time for the last few Christmas packages coming in, but to no avail. I guess we’ll celebrate the holiday over a period of days. Once back home Bill plugged [...]
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Katie, Bill and I all slept in late today. Nice not having an agenda that needed to get done. Bill checked the post office one more time for the last few Christmas packages coming in, but to no avail. I guess we’ll celebrate the holiday over a period of days. Once back home Bill plugged [...]
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Bill and I put Bill 3 on the early morning plane to fly out to Mn for a northern Mn Christmas with Erin’s family. It was so good having him home, even though it was only for a few days and Erin was wrapping up business and heading on home. It’s getting more and more [...]
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Yesterday: *Decorated the scrappy Christmas Tree we found on Sunday. No lights but we made up for it with lots of homemade decorations. *Pinochle last night. The guys creamed Katie and I. They were pretty hot. *Bill game me an early Chrismtas gift from Erin and him. A very fun print by our friend Steve [...]
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Tonight a friend came over and we did some Christmas crafts together. Last fall when Bill and I went out cutting fire wood we came across some nice birch logs. I had him cut them down into 12″ size and slice them in half length wise. Tonight he drilled three holes in each. That’s where [...]
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It has been a crazy week of terrible weather. We were keeping fingers crossed whether Bill 3 and Katie would make it flying in on Saturday or not. The morning flight came in without a hitch. Thursday and Friday were a different story though. Rain, rain, rain from Wednesday on which caused incredible ice on [...]
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It’s hard to believe that 2005 is wrapping up. It’s true, the years go faster and faster the older you get…. I’m dabbling in a few projects that I need to finish up this week. A sewing project for Bill and Erin’s Christmas present, a block-of-the-month square that is due on Saturday, and I need [...]
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The School District Christmas Party was last night. I had asked Bill out on “a date” earlier in the week, so he knew we were going out. I was suprised though when he brought me home a corsage to wear. A beautiful red rose. The “LLL” performed at the party. Judy and Kim had come [...]
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This week I am sharing a web link called “QuizList” to my classes that allows teachers/kids/parents to access the school library catalog and find out which books in our library have AR quizzes. I’m bribing the kids with prizes. Students that do a little tutorial at home with their parents and bring back a signed [...]
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