Dear Ole' Duke

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Happy Easter ALL!

Hope you had a wonderful, bright, family centered Easter!  I’m sitting here in a hotel room with my family pouting because the darn girl at the Duke bookstore didn’t put my new visor in my shopping bag…considering the amount of money we paid yesterday ($$ would buy you a pure bred puppy for crying out loud!) you’d think they could put everything in the bag….and on a normal weekend the bookstore would be open on Sun. afternoon so I could go straighten this out,  but I’m afraid Easter will see the store closed.  I’ll have to go back by and check before we head out to DC.  If they are closed I’ll have to talk to them by phone and try to work this out!  What a hassle and crappy way to wake up to Easter. But I haven’t forgotten the importance of this day. risensmiley2f  I did have a beautiful run this morning and had a great conversation with God in the process.  

We had a wonderful first day of spring break at Duke yesterday.  H walked around telling the kids all these great fraternity stories.  They got to see where Daddy lived on campus, where he partied beersmiley1 (hummmmm, what every parent should do right??  lol), where his classes were, you get the picture.  Everyone bought loads of Duke paraphernalia and they were happy as clams (especially me).  H even walked by a fraternity brother he hadn’t seen in years and come to find out he lives in Atlanta, small world…that happens more often than you’d think, they seem to be everywhere!  

It’s photo time:::::


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All decked out in their Duke hats…..

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Can you say Krzyzewski??  I love this photo…. 

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I like this silhouette of H.

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I LOVE the Duke gardens. I think I have a photo of me posed like this at the gardens back in ‘91.  Scrapbook time if I can find it!  ;-) 

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A brief moment of getting along (they were all good while we were on campus)…..

And finally, after many requests from friends who don’t see me all the time, a photo that shows off my thinness…..
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We spent the evening out at dinner (Ted’s..what a surprise that’s where the kids picked to go.)  We watched the Butler v. Michigan State game there and then got some snacks and headed back to watch the Duke game.  We really couldn’t do the bar thing with the kids so we watched together at the hotel. 

Well, if you love basketball you saw the game and you know how wonderfully Duke played.  Now we get to do this all over again on Monday night.  Seems like old times with Duke in the Final 4.  Jackson says he’s going to go to Duke…yes baby, and he is becoming a big Duke BB fan on this trip.  We had hoped being on campus would influence Clayton, but seems like Jackson was more impressed.  Maybe C was but he’s not telling us…and if you were wondering, we don’t understand where “gansta” Shelby came from on this trip.

Well, it’s about time to get over to the campus and work on my problem.  Then we head up north to Washington D.C.  I’ve already had a hamburger and two orders of fries on the trip so I’m eating!  I’m also jogging and got in about 3 miles yesterday and about 2 this morning.  Walked tons at Duke, I’m feeling physically fine!   

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SAHM to 2 teens, Clayton(15) Shelby(13) and 1 tween Jackson(11), Kitty Darby (8), Yoko (my baby is 5) and my Aussie Penny Puckett(3); happily married for 23 yrs. to Hows (don't get me started on his name). This will be a place to journal my life & thoughts, share my scrapbook pages and photos and reminence about "back in the day" when I feel the need.

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