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#TRUESTsem Part Four (16-20)

Query #12 October 2015

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Extra Yarn is $10 at Barnes and Noble with the purchase of any kids book. It’s one of my favorite read-alouds by my favorite picture book duo. @barnesandnoble

If you’re going to get a perm, you go to the lady who has been doing this since the 70s and trained under Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell in San Francisco. She’ll tell you about the clients and friends she lost to AIDS. She’ll hand you a Jazzercise T-shirt to put on that is probably the same shirt you had on in ‘98, when you were actually in Jazzercise and your grandma permed your hair in the kitchen twice a year. And maybe perms aren’t in style or maybe they will be in a couple years (“because everything comes back, you know”), but you’re old enough to not care, and old enough to appreciate a veteran stylist, even before she tells you that she has to go pick up one of her clients today because she had another hip replacement and can’t walk to the salon for her haircut.

‘Tis the season for mixing patterns.

Decisions, decisions. What should we name our rescue box turtle? She’s 20-25 years old, born around the turn of the millennium. Millie? Olive? Shirley? Mako? Something else? We’re stuck.

My boys came to art club tonight and tried throwing on the wheel. 8yo kept at it for two hours! Harry’s got nothing on this little potter.

Shenanigans at our living room sleepover. The dogs are both feeling much better!

Mom, look at the hideous faces we drew!

Lucy spent the day at the vet on an IV because the 8yo spilled Neville’s heart meds and she ate a bunch of them, spiking her heart rate to 260 bpm (normal for her is under 120). My own heart has been speeding and breaking for the past 24 hours with so much going on at school (more vandalism, and some teen tried to start an electrical fire outside my room) as well as family things. Glad this goose is back home, and thankful.

My favorite veteran got to be a guest at the high school’s assembly today. 🥰

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