Many people have gathered that I’ve been away from my computer and from recreational writing for the longest interval ever (since a daughter set me up with this fortuitously idiot-proof blog).
I’ll begin at the end.
I moved.
My brother and I did a final walk-through of the darkened, empty house where my husband Jim and I reared four Lake Woebegonian children. (That verb’s for you, dear Aunt Judy.)
We moved into this sturdy home–Jim’s dream house, with its own pond, into which one of our toddlers plunked a plump hand during his first visit and lifted out a perch, which he promptly returned to its own home–on a humid October Saturday, when gold leaves clumped underfoot and New Hampshire mosquitoes still flourished.
There were five of us then.
Jim and I brought our three pre-schoolers to this house. The new part of the house was added in 1805. There was no dissuading Jim once he saw the home and the land, which burst with fruit trees and berries, neon lime-yellow quince the size of footballs, asparagus stalks with the circumference of silver dollars, and sparkling water graced with at least two magnificent swans.
As Uncle Randy would say at Jim’s service, “The Glennon family was home” once Jim saw this house.
We added sunny baby Suzannah the following winter, and became a family of six.
There are five of us again now. Continue reading “Stumbling Over and Over”
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