July 2024

 

         

JUST LOOK AT THE PERFECT BABY.

  

All the shifting tiles still felt new, and I was wobbly and disoriented in July. (Still am? 😂) I didn't take all of these pictures (the first five are actually from Piper's camera; thank you, Piper!), but they represent most of the July events-- our sweet baby girl, Millie and Henry visiting, Ransom playing funny games by himself, and a power-out. I'm sure there were many more that didn't make it to a camera-- making 250 wedding cupcakes, for one, with not a photograph to show for it. And no one cares, not even me. 

Glory-Girl, or, Tiger-fish Turns Into a Ray of Sunshine (July 2024)

 

What everyone SHOULD care about, even and especially me, is that on July 26th, our first grandbaby came into the world. She smiled on her very first day of life, and she smiled for almost every day of her first six months of life. In fact, the first day she didn't smile, Annika wondered what could possibly be wrong. If one knows her parents, the fact that a smile was her default expression is not surprising.

We couldn't meet her right away, of course, but Annika and Tim sent pictures. They took all these pictures the first week of her life.

💛  Glory Christine, you cannot possibly know how much we love you.   💛