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Christmas Recap Pre-plague

January 9, 2009 by Alison Hodgson 4 Comments

This isn’t really a good picture of Birdie, but I have forgotten how to load more than five pictures per post. Something went wonkie several months ago and then I got busy with something else and then – LOOK THERE’S A CHICKEN! That’s the punchline to a joke a friend of mine, who does NOT have ADD, likes to tell, poking fun at those who do. All that to say, I posted this to be democratic to include Lydia and Wizzie in my five allotted photographs. Ahem.

This was taken at Mom’s when we celebrated Christmas with Torey’s family before they vaunted off to Canada to spread the plague afurther. Torey was home sick. Willa was (allegedly) recovered and was sent with Ren and David to the party. She is just one little bundle of germs which she (not so happily) spread to all of us. But we are ignorant of this. None of us know that the clock on general health and the workings of our most basic processes is ticking. Oh the humanity!

At least we went out smiling.

Or staring crazily and scratching our noses. Whatever. This picture looked much funnier as a thumbnail. Too lazy to edit. Perhaps it’s foreshadow. Maybe Dave has caught sight of the intestinal degradation that is about to ensue.

I always get a picture of Paul and David sitting together laughing. Paul has put in fifteen years in the family and David has done six. It’s good they can still smile. The funny thing is that both of these lads really wanted to join the clan. They are both intelligent men and clearly thrill seekers too.

Or maybe it was an experiment in eugenics. Did both of them know that Torey’s and my genes seem to be entirely recessive? Perhaps they thought it would be easier than cloning. They have probably reconsidered, but who can argue that the experiment wasn’t a success? Certainly not the little revelers pictured above.

It’s that time of year

December 8, 2008 by Alison Hodgson Leave a Comment

Today was the day to decorate cookies. The place was Torey’s. We had a new member on our team. You can see her pictured above, she’s the one with her britches hanging over her waist band. She didn’t get her little mitts on any cookies, but she definitely brought something to the table. And then there were the usual suspects:

You all know C. Riley H.

Here we have the lovely and talented Lydia, aka Birdie.

Eden goes by many aliases, don’t be fooled by the sweet and semi toothless smile.

Rendini couldn’t wait to start.

I’ll post more soon.

August 13, 2008 by Alison Hodgson 1 Comment

Remember that carnival I’ve told you about? You know the one that, after we attend it, usually results in emergency medical treatment (Bird: opthalmologist with a torn cornea Me: ER with a foot crushed by large, fat pony). Well, it was that time again and I took the kids, singlehandedly and brought along Ren, just for kicks.

All told, it went very well despite the heat (high 80’s) and the fact that we spent FOUR HOURS there. Of course there are stories.

Remind me to tell you about:

~The wine bar (it doesn’t exist, but it should)

~The mother who treated her kids like props in a photo essay

~God help us, the TROLLEY!

Oh and I’m ruminating hard about love, specifically the reckless sort.

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Kicking (kickin?) it pool side.

August 5, 2008 by Alison Hodgson 5 Comments

Christopher is visiting cousins which made having my Mac by the pool a possibility. This lasted for about three minutes before we realized that Jackie Boy was AWOL. Since yelling didn’t summon him, we had to mount a search. By the time all the girls were out of the pool and found their flip flops, Paul found Jack at the neighbors.