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Had a really nice start to the New Year at Sagesse's watching the first ever episode of Sesame Street from 1968.  That is definitely not before my time but we didn't get PBS in Windsor when I was growing up so I didn't see Sesame Street until much later than that...anyways, I would have been 9 by then and a little too old for the show.  It was cool ( Read more... )

So here it is Dec 26th and Alicia has gone to work and I have to go back tomorrow.  It's been a wonderful holiday...I couldn't have asked for better!  The shame of it is that it was wonderful because we were all on our own, not having to visit or be visited by family...and that very rarely happens ( Read more... )

Not much going on.  Had Frank's work Holiday party on Saturday at the Mandarin and then we went to Norm's.  Norm has finally lost his battle with his tooth which really started when he had a run in with a parked car on his bike when he was 13!!  The broken tooth was filled and held on for years but the last couple of years, it's started to give him ( Read more... )

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I got home last night to find Alicia gone to her concert, Frank sitting in the living room and Isaac barricaded in his room with his bookshelf and dresser, I think, pushed up against the door.  When supper was ready, I went upstairs and knocked on Isaac's door (Alicia had warned us about the furniture shifting, so I didn't try to open the door) and ( Read more... )

It looks like the moment of truth has arrived for Isaac.  He has had almost 2 weeks since our teacher interviews to bring home some marks for us and he hasn't.  He has brought home check marks on his Math homework but no marks.  And we said that that was the stipulation for him getting to go to the Brand New concert tonight.  So we told him last ( Read more... )

On Monday, we started answering the phones with Season's Greetings.  At lunchtime my relief, Jenn, got a call that went something like this ( Read more... )

So I spoke to my mom last night and my Aunt Lucy did die.  Apparently, she had had several strokes and was in a nursing home.  She said she didn't think I was that close to her so she didn't call.  She didn't call to tell me that Aunt Grace had died either.  What's up with that?  I guess I don't rate.  Anyways, I invited her for Christmas since we ( Read more... )

So after chosing all of the photos that I wanted for my wall and buying matching frames from IKEA and staining them and then sorting through the pictures once again and Frank deciding that he wanted a different picture of us for the center and laying them all out on the floor at least 3 times, I finally got them up on the wall!  For years, we had 3 ( Read more... )