Today is the day: Official GRADUATION day for Claire. The forecast says it’s going to be 107 so yeah. Be thinking of us sitting in that football stadium all squished together and appreciate your A/C a little extra for us! Ha! In some ways all this graduation ruckus feels strange …
I thought, when I was sorrowing away getting ready for Max to leave the nest, that if I could rip the bandaid off that time it must surely get better the next time I had to let someone go. But guess what? It doesn’t get better. I just gets different.…
Years ago I wrote about this wing-dinger of a family bank: What’s that you say? You can’t read the engraving? That’s because that thing is as old as the hills. I mean, that sucker was around when I was a kid for crying out loud. So I’ll translate: Those words…
I’ve mentioned the book Mao’s Last Dancer a few times before. It’s one of the reasons I think I kept getting nudged to start a sister’s podcast (planning to launch this summer…more on that HERE), inspired by the power of a memoir to make you think. But I have never…
I’m determined to catch up with my “little things” posts (except I’ll probably never get to those months deep in covid where I didn’t do any). But hey, here we are getting closer with March! And I’ll warn you right here and now, lots happened in March. I mean, Grace…
I think it’s so true that people who can’t see can “feel” more. Lucy can feel music so beautifully. She can’t see sheet music these days. So I think I’ve mentioned before that her awesome piano teacher uses a huge staff and writes out music for her to read. But…
You see, we all really thought Claire was done with volleyball. She put in the work. She talked to coaches. She turned in film. She got some sweet offers. That whole volleyball recruiting rigamarole. And it was a GOOD learning process. Dave and I were pretty impressed with how she…
Lucky Claire has two cousins graduating this year right alongside her. So, of course, we had to celebrate with the extended family before those big graduation days arrive (two different high schools): LOVE that these girls have grown up together forever and ever, from the time they were born. Have…
This is coming in less than two weeks: And I think Claire and I are still in denial. BUT we DID find a snippet of time to take some senior pictures. As a little break in the marathon MCO concert practice I was helping with a couple weeks ago, I…