This weekend I learned a very important lesson about perfection and beauty. My father took me and my wife to a indoor waterpark. It was fun. He mainly took us to be shaperones for he and Susan, his girlfriend. Originally, I was scared at the thought of seing my dad at a waterpark without a shirt on... Well, my dad sure has lost lot of weight. Being a waterpark there were lots of people...
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Yesterday, John gave me a day to myself.  He took Katie on a day-long Daddy daughter date to the Cincinnati children's museums and to the dollar movies.  I'll leave it to him to write about the details, but they sure had fun.  While they were gone, I worked on birthday presents for Katie.  Several months ago, I bought some fancy remnant fabric to make her some dress-up...
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My parents were here from Dec 5-17. It was really great to have them here for so long.  This was their longest visit yet, and for the first time, my Mom wasn't allergic to my house, and she actually slept well.  Amazing!  My allergies and Mom's allergies are two of the reasons that we decided to build instead of buying an existing house, so I'm glad that it made a difference for...
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My most memorable Christmas ever was when I was 12 years old. Actually, by normal Christmas standards it wasn't much of a Christmas. Santa didn't come. The only presents were the "Grandma" kind. I'm sure we've all had experience with the too-small socks, sweater, or whatever. Actually, with grandma presents you never knew just what is was going to be, only that it was going to be too...
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Well, grandma and grandpa wendel came to ohio and boy are we happy they did. Grandpa and I got working right away on replacing the bi-fold doors in the kitchen to the laundry closet with regular doors. We got the doors framed from the builder... after the house was finished. However, since the doors were framed they didn't fit in the existing space. So, grandpa and I took the doors off the frame...
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