hallie and I spent a good chunk of last night on the porch while it was raining; I love that it’s nice enough to sit outside and enjoy life while it’s raining outside.
I started out with a book and a cigar, and ended up cutting out “snowflakes” with hal that ended up looking like strange, buglike [...]
so tonight’s a combined birthday party for my sister, hallie, and my cousin, hayden. their birthdays are just about 2 weeks apart, so we decided to wait to do one with both girls. we’re doing it at a ceramic painting place.. you know, where you pick out the piece, paint it, and then they fire it [...]
to say that it was hallie’s birthday yesterday, and that she’s NINE YEARS OLD! wow. we’re having her birthday party on sunday, and it should prove itself to be quite a blast. it’s an “adopt a puppy” theme. : ) that’s right, that’s what she wanted. I even made up little adoption certificates for her party.. [...]
hallie, my 8-year-old (but she’ll tell you she’d rather be called an almost-nine-year-old) sister came home from school the other day in a bit of a panic. she just had to pass her light-blue multiplication test. I wasn’t quite understanding, so she explained it to me further, and it was shocking.
in third grade, she’s expected to be [...]