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Ruth E Schmidt Collins

April 21, 2012  · 

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Mammaw, what are you doing?

I'm making brownies

I wanna see! (She pulls bowl down to eye level.)

Mammaw! You're making CHOCOLATE!

(Aren't mammaws magic, the things they can do?)

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• Tam Collins

  sounds like my booger

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    Ruth E Schmidt Collins

    April 12, 2013  · 

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    Showed Hailey how to hang her drawings on the fridge with her magnetic letters. I may never see my fridge again when she is here. She faithfully made a dozen trips in about a half hour.

    

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      ha

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      wait not good i dont have magnents

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      Ruth E Schmidt Collins

      April 12, 2013  · 

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      Showed Hailey how to hang her drawings on the fridge with her magnetic letters. I may never see my fridge again when she is here. She faithfully made a dozen trips in about a half hour.

      

      2Ellie Lockhart Sprouse and Mary Hamm

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        ha

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        wait not good i dont have magnents

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My Dear Girl

 I miss you so much. It's been over a year since I've seen you. Longer since I held you, hugged you, Patted you on the back, or yanked your pony tail. 

I just miss you. 

I talk to you every day, I think. I'm always finding facebook stuff to share with you. I think I've been able to not do that, I haven't seen anything from me on your page, and I haven't messaged you anything. But it's been close a few times, kiddo. I've deleted a few almosts.

How can you be gone, so gone, so very gone? Where are you every day?

But I also don't want to bother you . I like to think of you as resting, sleeping, taking care of yourself, if there's even a self for you to be aware of.

Rest,baby girl. You've needed it so long, and I know -- yes KNOW -- how weary just getting through every day gets you. 

And you were at it for such a long, long time.

But, OH, My Child, I want you back. I want to talk and laugh and share and visit and even argue, and you aren't here to do any of that with, except in my mind.

You are just so very very gone, and I want it to not be so. 

Why did you have to go? 

Just as your life was unwrinkling before you, the curves in the road straightening. 

I want you back.

I want YOU back.

I WANT YOU BACK.

April 1, 2013

 Hailey

Where's my mommy on tv?
Your mommy isn't on tv. Why would your mommy be on tv?
Because she's beautiful.

March 8, 2015

Warren came into the house, saw Rex's tv on the floor, walked over to it, hugged it, and said "Mine."



Tam Collins

-- did not know warren was a bob the builder fan. (I think that's what we are watching) He dropped his ball, quit chasing the cat and turned his chair around and sat there for an episode. Between episodes, he got his ball and climbed up in the chair beside me. And here he sits. I think it's the machinery that lil mr "cars" is engrossed in.