Month: October 2011

In grade school some teacher or administrator or somebody came up with S.Q.U.I.R.T. and we had it every day.  Too many years later, I still remember what it stands for … Silent Quiet Uninterrupted Individual Reading Time. I instigated this with Ricky and Billy a couple of weeks ago and they seem to love it.  […]

My nephew was married to a very cute girl yesterday in the Bountiful Temple … wahoo, Andrew and Sariah!!! Kevin and I enjoyed remembering the day our wedded bliss began at the same temple… Our boys were at home with a couple of babysitters (with four boys, two babysitters is better than one).  They played […]

The boys have one set of Great-Grandparents left … Grandpa Dick and Grandma Evelyn.  Ricky is named after Grandpa Dick and he feels a special connection to him because of that. Today is Grandpa Dick’s birthday.  Grandma Evelyn’s was about a month ago.  They are the same age.  Both 80-something.  I want to say 88, […]

I’m not sure the exact era, but Rusty was there … His hair was getting bushy and long.  We’d trimmed above his ears and I’d even gone after the front trying to avoid the fluffy-Elvis-like do. Since Rusty hates hair cuts so much, I put it off, but the time had come – he needed […]