Little vignettes

A bit of this and that to catch up (so I will have plenty of time to fall behind again!)




Nothing like a new baby in the family, Zinny agrees, she's wants to hold the baby so bad! And she likes to remind me exactly who is MY baby.




My boys love Calvin and Hobbes, who doesn't? Zinny was reading with them and pointed to this picture and loudly (because she is always loud) exclaimed "Omma!!" And darn if this picture of Calvin's mom looks VERY similar to Zinny's foster mother! So funny!




Mmm, I made kimbap. Tastes even better than it looks. I used pickled banana peppers instead of pickled radish. This and bibimbap are my only successful Korean dishes I make really well, and that soup I posted before, name escapes me....too early in morning, not enough tea yet...




Zinny's birthday cake, supposed to be Pingu, for those that are familiar.




This is result from eating Pingu.




Loves her some shades




This is about 18 hours into our drive to Cape Cod, this is the exit right outside Buffalo NY where you walk over the thruway to get to the rest stop.



Trying to get truckers to honk.

Thus I leave you with a cliffhanger, next post: vacation photos!!




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Busy summer, let's start the recap!

Our summer story starts with the day the van turning 100,000 miles.



This very day we had a massive storm:



We are right in the heart of this. (aside: this was the last time we saw rain, we have had a horrible droughty summer, and HOT!!!)

Naturally the van, true to cliche, broke down this very day, during this very storm. Van packed with children, night time, on our way to visit our new baby niece at the hospital, a hospital very far away.
We were stranded at the supermarket, waiting for dear Neil and Zinny to rescue us!
It took them awhile to reach us, so we kept ourselves entertained.




















This last one is the point when Neil arrived. Thank goodness!



We finally made it the next day.





I have been interrupted 14 times during this short entry, and Zinny is LITERALLY pulling on my leg and yelling NO as the dog is frantically trying to get out the door and I just answered the phone in between the words 'door' and 'and'..... Soooo I gotta go...



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