decadent Christmassy evening with the family

So, we went to see Louise Mandrell’s “A Country Christmas” at the Opryland Hotel, and it was awesome.
I have affection for the Mandrell sisters because of their TV show when I was little. Especially Louise: not only was she smart and beautiful and played a million instruments well, she was a brunette, thusly figuring [...]

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Thanksgivingish Picturama

For starters,

here’s a Rainbow with his Papa.

…swoon…

Allo!! I am Meester Standee Stand Stand, soon to become Meester Walkee Walk Walk. Allo!!

And this fellow, in whom Wolfric was very interested, was who we thought was Karen’s baby daddy.

Mais non. Just a wandering vagabond, seeking love where none was to be found.

Hola!

And…

in case [...]

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s’long, Fishmaster…

and hello, Commodore.

Chosen not for his daddy’s college alma mater, but for one of his current fave bands:

(how cool is it that my fourteen year old loves to listen to vinyl LP’s of Linda Rondstadt and the Commodores and the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones?)
(waaaaaaaay cooler than I was at fourteen, that’s for sure.)

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mmmm, coffffaaaayyyy

I’m totally wasting my Rainbow morning nap/shower time squeezing in a post here, which is especially ridiculous considering I have nothing much to say and haven’t even brushed my teeth yet, but let’s just see where this goes.
(TOTALLY just an excuse to drink a third cup of coffee.)
Rainbow is just over the top with [...]

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melting

Now I know (I KNOW!) that just about every mama thinks her baby is impossibly beautiful, and I started to feel a little embarrassed about actually feeling that way, too, and then realized that of COURSE we all feel that way, because it’s TRUE:
ALL BABIES ARE IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL.
So, let me share my impossibly [...]

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the end of October

Galloping, galloping, galloping on through November, with Thanksgiving in my lap, ready for attention, and Christmas pawing at my foot and pressing its nose against my leg.
(oh, Dana, I miss you.)
Some snaps of Ward’s birthday party, celebrated two days early on October 26th.

Yes, Rainbow, it’s a special day.

The Fishmaster dressed as Wormwood from The Screwtape [...]

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gorgeous, gorgeous fall day

mmmm, but it’s magnificent outside today.
The sky is a perfect blue,and the leaves are half on/half off, so both sky and ground are blanketed in color. The air is crisp. The pets are happy. The baby is beautiful.

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soggy old Thursday

Thank you so much, friends, for commenting and for reading and for just being here.  We’ve made it through another birthday, and it was just lovely.  The weather was perfect, again, and kids had fun and ate cookies and people admired Ward’s sculpture.  I think Daddy J must have downloaded the pics onto his laptop [...]

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photo journaling

So, yes, everything’s actually going wonderfully. Just blindingly fast and busy-like, but all is well.
Rainbow had what is probably the mildest cold ever (thank you, thank you, thank you) and just never got really sick at all. After one morning of a half-hour of icky rivulets from his nostrils, there was just a wee bit [...]

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a story in pictures

Oh, Hi.
Is that a phone you have there?

Say what? It’s relatively expensive and breakable and not really a baby item?
But…
I really want it…

If I could Just. Reach. IT.

Garrrraghhh!!! Surprise lunge attack for phone!!!

RAVENOUS BEBEH MUST NOM PHONE!!! NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

Phone nom attempt: Fail.
*sniff*
*sigh*
…
Induction of misty-eyed adoration by [...]

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