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i thought i'd just ignore it….carry on as if it WASN'T   but then….so this won't make any sense at all but it will be said and we can then move on.   

I was late getting there.  To Alyssia's     No reason,  just was hard to get going…cold maybe.  damp maybe.  but really…no reason but i did get there and it was in full swing.   Jenny at the stove top station with Brinley   Jazmine at the table top grill station with Emrie     They are making red and green pancakes.  toppings are whip cream maple syrup strawberries bananas and chocolate chips   and it is clear that Jazmine is now an integral PART of Us.   (she now lives in the little yellow house next door to Alyssia's house,  the little yellow house where Alyssia first lived and now is in contract of rent to own…Jazmine lives there….she is related.  We can just say a cousin.  Michigan cousin.  )   and regular pancakes and breakfast sausage scrambled eggs cinnamon rolls stuff like that    Jenny's man was on the couch in the livingroom the big screen TV with Star Trek,  napping peacefully  i'd missed the opening of the presents     jeffrey is somewhere and Julian is in New jersey at his dad's   jax is in New mexico with his mother to visit her family    and it all goes on,  at some point Jazmine comes back from over at her house wearing a Tshirt that says….My First Christmas being a Mom.     How we find out.   She's pregnant…due in July    and right around that time Veronika showed up with the two little boys…we'll say cousin again….Minnow is ecstatic with all the kids and comotion

and a million things more,  but we left…to get back at feeding time and Hill is here…peaceful.  Peacefull.  PeaceFULL.

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4 responses to “christmas 2024”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ What a tapestry your growing family is! Blessing for the new July arrival…and for all of you for all of the months before and after, for always.
    I love this Hill pic. It’s so alive!
    xo

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  2. Catherine Avatar

    PeaceFULL holidays – I mean everydays- to you and your family, Grace

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    i watched it all in a kind of just observant way…Alyssia, Veronica, Jazmine…all around the same age…young women of their 3o’s Watched Jenny who once was my first baby
    There are so many layers to things

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    christmas is christmas…not a favorite time for me….i’d
    quit christmas some many years ago, but now, here, the young ones, i let myself ride the raft of what it is here.
    and am relieved when it’s done with…to go back….to the Peaceful
    everydays

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