When I returned some tables and chairs to Concordia after Kate’s wedding, I had to stop in the Student Life Office. I asked where our ‘New Students’ photo was, since every other year since 1987 is posted around the walls. We were back in a closet on top of some filing cabinets. What a fitting place for this group.
IKEA
Oh, how I love IKEA. Please visit their website to see all the wonderfully designed, inexpensive, fabulous things that I love so much! Unfortunately, there isn’t one anywhere in the Midwest. Most of my friends live close to one, the jerks. Kathryn & Todd have one in Chicago, Brad has one in Baltimore, and Charles […]
‘Bye, Brad
The saddest time of the year is when Brad leaves, because it means that fun is gone , work is just around the corner, and now we have to turn the furnace back to the ‘freezing’ setting. We took him to the airport around 11 a.m., but his plane was late to arrive, and leave. […]
Dancing Queen
Bethany can dance… Charles and Deborah stopped by over Christmas break, and, every once in a while, while we were listening to some tunes and generally making fun of Brad, a song would play that Bethany found particularly compelling and she would turn into a dancing machine. As you might have heard, Lauren got a […]
Games people play
 Last night we (Lloyd, Brad & I)  went to Beth and Harold’s (joining Beth, Harold, Tara & Curt Nierman) for the first annual Pester Fondue New Year celebration. It was fun to eat melty stuff, but then the games had to begin. I am not a game person, so Lloyd is always disappointed in me. I played Fact […]
Wed!
They’re hitched! John and Kate had a beautiful wedding with FABULOUS decorations, if I say so myself. Here you see them eating the absolute best cake on the planet. Everything was perfect, although we did have about an inch of rain, and the house was out in the country on a dirt road. It was […]