Valentine's and Haley Visit

Blog 2/21/13

Hello!  How are you doing?  Yesterday I decided not to expect anything out of myself, and it’s very freeing!  I don’t recommend it for everyone, but for people like me, who feels guilty and anxious every day if I don’t remodel and decorate our living space, even if it’s a rental, win at Nationals – riding a horse that I’ve bred and raised myself, that doesn’t exist yet, landscaped a handicapped accessible yard and garden that is the model for the western United States,  written the Great American Novel, plus sent homemade cards to everyone I know,  created amazing 3-D, multi-media artwork, and somehow become better-looking and healthier (with prosthetics or even new legs!) than I was 20 years ago, it might be a good mental adjustment.  (And I’m not exaggerating!)

(cont.)  2/26/13

Okay…where was I?  Lots of things have happened, none earth—shattering.  I’ll have to look at the pictures.  Oh, yeah.  Before Haley and family left town last time (he still hasn’t heard on the job he interviewed for), Haley came over on  Monday for a visit; Grandpa got to play with Paige, while Haley and I took pictures and Hunter played with the animals and the toys.

Tut was out-of-sorts for some reason – maybe too much attention being paid to Paige and Hunter, and not enough to him!  It was sad to see them go, but we’re all hopeful about the job.

  

Meanwhile, we’ve been sick a couple of times, hence no blog posts lately.  But we watched a bunch of dvds from our public library.  Our favorites were Becoming Jane and The Sound of Music, the extras.  On tv we saw From Here to Eternity, which we both liked, and we’ve been watching American Idol, which has some crazy-good female singers this year.

This is Tristan’s Valentine box we made.  He did most of the work, and he came up with ALL of the ideas himself.  Isn’t he clever?

And this is what Mark made me for Valentine’s Day! 

It was a total surprise, and so yum yum yummy!

(It took us about 2 days to eat it. ;)

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