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December 11, 2008
by janette
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my new favorite picture

look how absolutely happy they are…
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i love the love…i shouldn’t tell you, but i will, that about twenty seconds after this i think they were both crying for some reason…the love only lasts so long. (but at least i can prove its existence!)

December 2, 2008
by janette
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one of those great family traditions

We used to make these “turkey cookies” with my grandma every thanksgiving as a table decoration.

You use fudge stripe cookies, chocolate drops for the tummy, chocolate chips for the feet, and candy corn for the head.She’d set the ingredients in front of us with a big bowl of frosting and say go. What a wonderfully brave woman.
I’m so glad my mom is just as adventurous when cooking with her grandkids.
It was fun to watch ellie do this project…it took me back.

So careful…why can’t she concentrate on everything with this intensity?
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sometimes frosting is just too tempting!
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my mom…super grandma
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enjoying the end result
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December 1, 2008
by janette
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something i thought i’d never see again

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if you’d have told me that gas would ever be below $2.00 a gallon again, i wouldn’t have believed you. (And this was obviously taken before it kept coming down…latest update – $1.75 in janesville)

i know…its the sign of a weak economy…but its nice when it comes to filling the van!  

what i really want to know…what is a “lazers donut” and what does that do to one’s digestive system? *smile* 

November 26, 2008
by janette
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i’m so excited

we get to go “home” for thanksgiving today…

i LOVE this holiday…the food…the weather…the football…the family…the napping…

i just can’t wait!  i’m almost giddy

isn’t it funny…the things we just can’t wait for?  i called mom yesterday to see if my sister and her little girl had arrived yet…they hadn’t – I wasn’t even there, it wasn’t like i was going to see them until tonight anyway…can’t help it – giddy.