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Friends & Family Feels

Notes about family and friends - how we make them, treat them, and keep them

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It's OK to disagree with our friends. But they are still our friends! Words are powerful, words go and make people feel good or words can make people feel bad or angry. It's always better to make our friends feel good.

Friends. Friends care about each other. Friends often like different things. Friends enjoy being together and doing things that the other really likes. Friends sometimes give up things for their friend. Friends say "Thanks f

Here's a picture that Joanna drew for you! Bunny / Bear teaches about evaporation!

No two people are exactly the same! EVEN Best Friends can be very different! "Opposites attract!!" Ever heard that? Sometimes we like people because they're different than we are! That's OK you know! Mom and I are really different people - sometimes

Can you see me standing here - next to mom, next to Theo, next to you? Working - helping - playing - cooking - reading - drawing - singing - changing - trying - succeeding? Can you see yourself standing here - next to mom, next to Theo, next to me?

It's hard being the oldest kid in a family. People really expect you to set an example for the younger ones. To show, with your words and actions, the "right" way to act - to treat other people - to share - you name it. It's not easy, I know. Nothin

Life in a family is fun. Living - Loving as one. Finding the new under the sun. Living - Loving as one. I love you.

Today would be my dad's 79th birthday. He was born in 1919. Next year he would be 80. It's hard for me to imagine what he would look like as an older man - he was only 58 when he died (13 years older than I am now). Happy Birthday Dad!! Hope you get

What a whirlwind trip. A "whirlwind" is something that happens when suddenly the wind whips around in a tight circle - blowing leaves and papers with it. That's sort of what our trip was like don't you think? Most of it was fun - the car ride up was

What is a friend? Someone you share your feelings with. Someone who cares about you and who you care about. Someone you like to be with, who makes you feel comfortable, safe. Someone you'd do anything to help. Someone who trusts you to keep a secret

Theo you have so many good friends - in school and at home. Have fun with them. Learn from them and - important news here - be a good friend to them! Friendship is a two way street. Treat your friends good. Play the games that they want to play some

So much goes on in a life today. What a complicated tapestry we weave - from the moment of our birth to our last breath. So many people we meet and even the least of them shape us somehow by our contact. The really big people in our lives - our fami

Life is funny Theo. You are born in America, in a Big city in 1991 and you have one set of experiences. And those experiences shape you like you are made out of clay. Different experiences different shape.  It's not quite that simple

Seems like a lot to do going down the road of seventh grade. Lots to study. Lots to learn, lots to play, lots to learn, lots of friends, lots of plans, lots to learn... We learn so much from our friends. We learn so much from our friends. It's so im

Happy Halloween Dude! I hope you had a good weekend and it sounds like you did.  Next time tell your friends that you're not allowed to watch "R" rated movies okay?  I think that they sound too violent for you to be watching at your age.&

My brother Jim's daughter Genny is turning 21 tomorrow. That's hard for me to believe. I can remember when she was born like yesterday. I have a picture somewhere of Jim, a very young Jim, wearing no shirt and holding a naked baby Genny in his arms.

Good morning!  You're a lucky guy you know to have a big sister like Joanna.  I know you might not always think so but I know you would agree sometimes.  Brothers and sisters are a different kind of match - or maybe I should say a "ma

Good morning honey! I love you so much! You know we're born to parents without a say as to who they are. We're born and our early years are spent in places where we don't have a choice - we don't get to choose our environment. Our group of friends w

(Today is your Uncle Jim's 50th B'DAY!) I was only 15 months when he was born and we lived in Boston. I can't say I remember the day but I remember a lot from the years that followed. Jim has always been a great brother to me. In man

A surprise party for Isabelle's 16th? A fun, appropriate idea! I would have liked to have seen her face when she walked in - must have been precious. It's nice to be thought of by your friends - makes you feel like a wanted part of the world. We are

I've been thinking about my mom the past few days. Thinking about all the things she did for me and my brothers and sisters, to help us grow up right. Guiding me with her example. Working her butt off to make our home life special which was not easy

I want for you to discover yourself and to be happy with that discovery - be happy with who you are. I want for you to find new talents in yourself all the time and to find ways to use those talents that benefit you and others as well. I want for yo

History is so personal. You come from the joining together of two families, who in turn come from four other families. Guest, Caprio, Plotkin, Chambers, Kuhn, Sullivan. French, Italian, Jewish, English, German & Irish. Long b

I love watching you interact with your teachers (yes teachers) and friends at school. I know you want "BIG." I know you want out now and I can understand why. I also can see the bonds you have, the love you share, the fun it's all been, the good and

A family is like the pocket the quarterback moves in, looking at his options, unhurriedly releasing his pass with the best possible chance of success. A safe haven, a sheltered cove to anchor in to plan your next journey out on the open sea. There's

The trees on Rugby silohette starkly against the brightening morning sky as Sunny and I round the corner. The image clears my head and I think of my sister Marcia - like I have been every morning since she died last August. Sisters are special creat

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