Early December 2005
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I’ve got time to write in these early morning hours and I’ve been looking back over old pictures and thinking about the before times. Before this blog, I mean.
In early December 2005, we were well-settled in the big yellow house on the hill. Buddie’s sister and her wee baby were living with us. My dad and mom lived in their house right down the hill from us, and Buds was flying back and forth to Virginia as he and Z worked to birth a new baby Juice.
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Monkey’s holiday program at the science center preschool.
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these shenanigans.
I’m sure life had stressors back then, but when I think back on it it fills me with such joy. I was home with the kids and they were happy and healthy. Buds was working so hard, but it was for himself, for us. He was happier than he’d been working for someone else.
We’ve been so very blessed.