Wednesday, 1-31-96 11:08 PM London 5:08 PM E-Town Well, after almost a month here in London, I feel pretty nearly where I belong… I was gonna say “pretty nearly perfectly happy,” to quote Anne of Green Gables… but what is perfect?! Well, I went to the Canoe Polo trials & decided not to try out […]
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Saturday, 1-20-96 3:34 PM London 9:34 AM Evanston ★ Dad’s 55th Birthday! ☺︎ Wow! It’s been 4 days since I wrote in here… Though it doesn’t seem that long. The past 5 nights, & much of my days, I spent hanging out w/ my Pembridge buddies Adam & Paul. They are great guys & becoming […]
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You’re fifteen for a moment, caught in between ten and twenty… You probably don’t know this song reference, but we’ll remedy that today. 15. Years. Old. Say what? When did that happen?! I remember this toddler, who loved all things trains, said “Choo-Choo!” often, and would drop everything when he heard the sound of “ding-dings” going down, […]
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Saturday, 1-6-96 1:37 AM Broughton/Chester, Wales 7:37 PM Evanston (1-5-96) Talk about expectations… I don’t know what I quite imagined my first night on my home stay to be like, but it sure wasn’t like this! ☺︎ After my 5 hr. bus ride here to Wales, during which I mostly slept, I arrived w/ the other […]
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Dear Abigail Grace, What to say to you… It’s September 17th again! Your 9th Birthday! How exciting is that?! You’ve been asking for days what time you could wake up this morning, since you wanted to get the celebration going as early as possible… In part because you wanted to be sure there would be […]
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Seriously?! How is it possible that you are now eight? I can still remember getting settled into our pre-op room at Christ Hospital, before the c-section to deliver you. I recall how many times I repeated our doctor’s mantra for us, “September 17th is going to be a happy day!” I was afraid to believe […]
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