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Love Letters
Our time in Iowa is coming to an end. In nine days we will return to Madrid. I gave my family the opportunity to write a short letter to Alleke about getting to know her over the last four months. Here is what they wrote: Grandma TGOne night, when grandpa and I were taking care [...]
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Grandpa
Alleke and Grandparents Photo by kellyandapril. “I can babysit,” my dad said. April stopped reading the paper and looked up at me. I glanced from her to my mom who was standing in front of the open refrigerator, milk in hand, staring at the two of us. We all looked back at dad. “You’d have [...]
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Dropping Things
At first I thought Alleke had unlearned how to hold on to her toys. Then April pointed out that actually she had just learned how to drop things. (Who knew that was something we had to learn.) So, we play this game. I give her a toy. She drops it.
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Grandma
“I’ll fold the rest of the diapers,” I said to April as she walked downstairs with Alleke in one arm. I walked into the dining room and sat down at my laptop to check email one last time before going to bed. I wrote a few emails, got a drink of water from the kitchen, [...]
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Snowmobile
Iowa Blizzard Photo by kellyandapril. My dad went out to look at the road. He said there was a car in the ditch by our mailbox. He said there were snow drifts over the road as high as the window of the car. I asked my dad if anyone had been on our road besides [...]
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