Barbara Elisabeth Orman Bird was my grandmother’s name. When mom had her first child, Grandma suggested she name her Barbara. Mom was not thrilled about the idea because the name sounded like an old woman name to her, but mom thought that grandma would be unhappy if she didn’t take her suggestion and so [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Kathleen
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I don’t know if today is just more interesting than other days or if I’m just closer to a computer. Here’s my second post of the day:
Isaac cut his finger today and it bled. We washed it off and bandaged with a little antibiotic ointment and as I cared for his injury he [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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As we were watching a pre-recorded episode of Sesame Street today an Amber Alert came on. I explained to Isaac that a girl was missing . Isaac ran to the window to look for her. When he didn’t see her he asked if this was happening in ‘our world.’ I told him that it was [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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**I should start with a disclaimer. I know that Grandma’s office was on Lincoln Ave. in Bellevue. I browsed Google Earth and the pictures I’ve included look somewhat like the places I remembered. Although my grandmother’s house looks the same that it did 20 years ago, downtown has changed some. I do remember seeing a [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Kathleen
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We loved to play outside at Grandma’s house. In front of her house just under the windows was a flowering tree that had these leaves that would turn brown and curl up in the fall. We used to pretend they were tacos and fill them with dirt (beef). Grandma also had these plants in [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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We visited my Grandma Bird in Pennsylvania whenever we could. We always called her Pittsburgh Grandma, although she lived just outside of Pittsburgh in Bellevue. I thought the drive took about 5 hours, but Google maps thinks we could get there in 3 1/2. We took toll roads most of the way. This meant [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Barbara liked to teach me things. My dad says she potty trained me, but I should probably ask my mom to confirm that story. I do remember the time she brought me into her bedroom where she had gently laid a pair of underwear on her bed. She told me that she thought she had [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2009 by Kathleen
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When I was very little I shared a room with my older sister Barbara. We used to share a double bed. I remember we’d have this imaginary line down the middle of the bed delineating my side from hers. We had this rule that any part of your body that crossed the line was [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Kathleen
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The point of this blog is mostly to post the pictures I didn’t have when I initially blogged about my childhood home.
When my parents bought our house it was the mustard color you can see in the picture below:
My parents painted the house “Shadow Grey” and added black shutters which I always thought improved the [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I thought I might experiment with putting some of my thoughts from my study out on the blog. I don’t know if this will be a frequent practice or not, but I think maybe writing out what I’m thinking will be helpful. I hope it doesn’t seem preachy; my intent is to just sort my [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Zach
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My mother sent me some pictures from my childhood and a few of our house. Some of these pictures will be used in upcoming blog posts, but for now, I thought I’d post a little preview. Most of these pictures are from when I was very young, but some of them were taken during that [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Our yard flooded regularly. Whenever there was a particularly big rain storm, all the water from the fields that surrounded our house would drain through our yard to the little brook just past the weeping willow on the Drolls’ side of the fence. Our house, garage, and barn were all on hills with a valley [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Kathleen
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It wasn’t what I was expecting. I’d just broken off a relationship with an interesting but insane girl from Ukraine, and I was not really in a mood to be serious. I decided I was going to date the next fairly normal American girl I met, and behold, there was a young Kathleen. A Mormon [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Zach
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We did this:
Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I should apologize in advance for the woeful supply of pictures I have of my old home. I was able to get some images from Google, but they’re from very far away and show several things not present in my childhood.
Sometime after my brother Lee was born, but while I was still 2 we [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Kathleen
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One of my favorite things over the Christmas break was having our extended family participate in the bedtime routine. I particularly enjoyed our story-time sessions where we read stories like Lucky Socks, Here Are My Hands, Trains, Violet the Pilot, Put me in the Zoo, and Two Little Trains. The last one was particularly fun [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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This is late, but I love this rendition of the Christmas Story and I finally took the time to listen to it today. Click here for the link. My apologies if the link disappears before you can listen. I don’t know how long it will be available.
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Kathleen
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This needs to stop. I haven’t heard one assumption tonight that’s anywhere close to true. I’m sick to death of the gulf between my siblings and the ridiculous ideas that widen it.
Everyone is hurt. Everyone is oversensitive to the slightest rumor. Everyone judges too quickly and too often. I’m not excluding myself.
I challenge each of [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Zach
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