Julie Lyles Carr

~My Baby Brother With His Baby Girl~ Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

On our cross-country tour, the six youngest kids and I stopped for a couple of nights at my parents’ house. While we were there just a few weeks ago, a couple of changes have taken place in our absence. The deck has been restained to a nice dark oak. And my dad is babying some tomatoes from greenhorns to crimson…
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I’m sitting in one of my favorite spots on the earth, the cheery kitchen of my brother and sis-in-law in the absolute middle of this great country. The kids are pounding up the stairs to grab costumes and are pounding down the stairs to the basement to engage in complex light sabre battles. My sis-in-law has treated me to her…
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I know she only looks like she’s 14, but JK has been my best bud from our college days. And unless she started at the university pre-womb, my math shows that JK and I have enjoyed a twenty year friendship. Most of it conducted over the phone. Because not long after we decided we were long lost sisters and could…
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Remember the poor friends we invaded about a week and a half ago for the use of their guest room and how we ended up christening their carpet with emesis? Remember? The road trip prior to the road trip I’m presently on? (Did you follow that?) Yea, those folks. Well, for quite a while now, the wife of that duo,…
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