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Oct 17

Going Far to see farfarmor

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This photo was at my grandma’s house or in Swedish it would be farfarmor. In Swedish far means father and mor means mother.  A grandma on my father’s side is farmor and my grandpa on my father’s side is farfar, then a grandma on my mother’s side is mormor and a grandpa on my mother’s side is a morfar.

So following that logic my daughters have a far, a mor, a farfar,a farmor, a morfar, a mormor, a farfarmor, a farmormor, a morfarmor, and a mormorfar. When I was a little boy their I meet their farfarfar, farmorfar, and even their farfarmorfar. There were far more fars and mors farther back in their history but as far as I know those are all the fars and mors I’ve meet . It would be nice to go more often to see all the fars and mors but they live far from here and I have no more time off work to travel so far.

So for now we will have to wait to see them more.

Nov 17

Spoiled Pumpkins

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Remember those live props in my last post? Those real pumpkins? I sat them on the fire place as decorations… and ummm… forgot about them. Real pumpkins in a warm house for 2 weeks is not a good thing. The top of the pumpkin didn’t look so healthy so I was going to move it and…. well… it started to fall apart. I was glad it wasn’t to bad and no bad smell or anything. So much for my pumpkin pie idea.
That really has nothing to do with the photo I have posted other than the pumpkin thing happened today and I was later going through my photos and noticed this one of Joy. They had so much fun with the props. Maybe I will have to come up with another fun idea for Christmas.
Jan 30

1 month down, 1 month to go.

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It has been a month since I broke my leg and I have one more month with my cast on. The worst part of it all is that it is so hard to do anything or go anywhere.

Before I just wanted to sit around the house on my days off. After a full week of work it was nice to just sit and not go anywhere. And now that I am almost glued to my couch I now want to get out. My plan is to go for a hike somewhere and take about 100 photos once the cast is off. Any photo from a view point other than my couch would be nice.

I have to say the one thing I miss most is being able to chase after my daughter and play with her. Chasing her with the crutches is not exactly fun to her.

From the couch, however, I did manage to get a good shot of my daughter. She loves crayons. She doesn’t color with them. She just takes them out then puts them back in…. or walks around with them…. or dumps them out then puts them back in again. She is obsessed with picking things up and putting them a way. I hope it stays that way.

I love my daughter and even a little thing like breaking your leg makes you much more thankful for the fact that it is only a temporary discomfort. There are people I know who will never walk yet have learned to enjoy life.

I want to be more thank for everything. I want my daughter to see  an example of an attitude of thankfulness, excitement  and just enjoying life no matter what circumstances may come. Life is more that these little things that appear to set us back or slow us down. I want to be the cheerful bright red crayon.

 

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