It’s a kinda big day in my world today. For example: Andrew starts Kindergarten tomorrow Three years ago today my mom died. After watching and helping her for three weeks, this was the the first day she was gone. And while this day and this time of year feels a lot less bad than it [...]
After his 9-day visit to Texas, Andrew returned home late on a Thursday night. Here’s my boy running happily toward me at the airport. What a happy feeling to see him again! Here’s Andrew and Aunt Mel at the airport. We were really excited to have Melanie able to visit us for a long weekend! [...]
Big news here at DotzourFamily.com today. Since I started this blog in May of 2005, I have shared the highs and lows of our family’s life. And here, today, I am posting the 1,000th post. That’s a big number! If I had advertisers/if this blog brought in any money, this would be the time to [...]
After Bryan and I got back from the wedding in Michigan, Sylvia and I packed our bags and drove up to St. Paul to see Maretta and Kyle. Maretta was in a play (The King’s Ward), and she wasn’t going to be able to make it to Jack’s house for our annual get-together, so Sylvia [...]
While Andrew was in Texas, Michael and Lisa bravely took Sylvia for the weekend while Bryan and I drove up to the Upper Peninsula for a wedding. One of Bryan’s past co-workers and good friend was getting married at a beautiful site on Lake Michigan. I’m so glad we were able to get away to [...]
Oh my dear friends, so many things have happened, so many photos have been taken. July. July? I don’t honestly actually remember July. Let’s look back at the photos (mostly taken on my phone) to see what we did that long summer month. Let’s see, my last post was on July 9. The next day [...]
Not to dive right back in on a complaining note, but, well, sometimes real life involves some ear-piercing moments. And some days include many, many, many of those moments. Today was one of those days. For Sylvia. And me. And me and Sylvia. My dearling daughter, who is in large part a complete joy and [...]
A shy voice in the ether. “hello?…” Friends? Family? Curious acquaintances? I’ve left you for oh, so long. My last post was a month and a half ago. And you know the weirdest part (for me)? I haven’t even spent much time thinking about this electronic journal into which I have poured so much of [...]
