~Twins~ ~you can tell because of the matching headbands~ ~which 8 of 8 was convinced he needed~ ~because I think he thought it was a space age visor of some sort~ Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

The in-laws have headed back across the Red River but before they went, we attempted a little family photo shoot. Since it’s so nice and cool here and all. Not. I really wanted to get a shot of MiMi and PaPa and their grandboys. Which required cooperation on the grandboys part. For which I was not able to get a…
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They’ve been here this week. I just haven’t wanted to rub it in. Since they’re so amazing and all. (Seriously…as in here and here and here….) My amazing in-laws hit town and starting running with the kids, with round of Bingo and checkers and card games and fun. And there was kitchen-scrubbing by my father-in-law. Gorgeous technique, I tell ya….
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We’ve been having some kind of nutty run here. Something like 60-some-odd days of 100 degree-plus heat. Yeah. It’s been a lot of fun. So when the mercury finally dropped to 99 degrees, I knew what I had to do. Behold. I call it ‘Decorating By Faith.’ I’m just gonna believe that it’s gonna get cooler here, that one of…
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I suppose our generation of moms worried about it too. Except then, it was over Barbie Dream Houses and the Barbie Winnebago and baby dolls that cried thanks to an inserted battery pack. Concern that good old-fashioned pretend play was going out of style. That somehow we kids would lose the ability to just take some old cardboard boxes and…
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