Papa turned 89 this past month!
He has so many stories to tell and we love listening to them every time.
We had angel food cake with homemade brown sugar frosting and pecans.
I took a picture to prove to Phoebe that Harrison does indeed do kitchen work sometimes. He helped me make cinnamon rolls on this particular evening. Although I was so disappointed that they didn't turn out very well. Not a good dough and way too much sweetness.
But they looked delicious.
We spring forward an hour this weekend. Aren't we going to cancel that stupid time change thing at all!? It absolutely drives me crazy that we switch times twice a year. It makes no sense! And it drives families with babies and littles to the brink ~ to the brink, I tell you! Stop this madness!
Phoebe comes home about every other weekend and we love having her home. We watched the first Godfather with her, and she insists we must finish them. So we've watched II, and III will be watched next time.
Jonathan has been learning step dance (they made him go; but he found it stretched him, so he went back) and eating out with friends and climbing foothills to watch the sunrise. His residency also keeps him busy over there in Boise!
Lanaya Elizabeth is knitting up a storm! Always new patterns and new sweaters and her pictures are always lovely.
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What should we call this cat? She looks like a shag carpet to me, with her orange and black fur.... Her brother is shaggy black like Rochester, so I call him Jr.
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I've had Harrison memorizing this sonnet by John Donne: Death, Be Not Proud.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
A friend from college who was right around our age passed away a few weeks ago. I didn't know her well, but I knew her family and her husband & his family (our preacher's wife is twin to the husband). It was a bittersweet time going to the visitation. Hard to see the sadness, but we visited with so many college friends -- it was a mini reunion and joyful in that regard for many of us. She was a Christian and so we know the end will be joyful for all of us.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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