Jessica
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Hosting Thanksgiving
We tried to host Thanksgiving for both sides of our family, with mixed results.
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We all have Covid
What started out as a cold progressed to full-blown Covid for all three of us.
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Memorial Day weekend sickies
Both Jessica and Namine were sick over Memorial Day weekend, but we still were able to enjoy ourselves.
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Cracker Barrel
I finally got Jessica to try Cracker Barrel!
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Jessica’s bowling birthday
Namine was in her wheelchair, ready to go. “Be ready to leave in a half hour,” I told Jessica.
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Cookie day 2013
Jessica and her sisters had been planning today for some time. Today was cookie day… or perhaps, as I think of it, Cookie Day. We estimate a number of greater than six hundred cookies were made in the course of six hours. That’s not bad for having a single oven.
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Happy birthday Jessica!
Yesterday was perhaps not the birthday that Jessica wanted – with Namine’s cardiology appointment revealing tachycardia – but it is indicative of the life we have with each other.
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Making our own Christmas stockings
Today was a craft day. We made our own Christmas stockings!
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Handmade purses
Jessica and her sister Melissa made purses from old jeans for the little girls in our lives: Namine and her cousins Olivia and Eva.
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At the Auntie Anne’s Pretzel kiosk
“I want a strawfanade.” “What?” “I mean a strawbanade.” “I’ll say it again, what?” “I meant to say strawberry lemonade, it came out wrong.”
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A conversation in the cafe with the “cook”
Disclaimer: Jessica hates ketchup. No, Jessica despises ketchup. So join us, won’t you, for a conversation Jessica had with the so-called (thus the finger quotes) cook – whose primary language is most definitely not english – in the hospital cafeteria.
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A stay at home kind of day
Namine’s staying home from therapy today due to her not feeling well. I only wish I could have, too. Both Jessica and I are feeling pretty much what Namine is feeling – stuffy, boogery, just all-around congested. We went to Urgent Care last night to see if we – Jessica and I – needed to […]