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Just a quickie post today to count a few more blessings.

Taylor told us last night on our video chat that he got the new job he had hoped for.

In the accounting department of his current employer.

Good-bye call center and weekend shifts!

Britt told us on our video chat that she and Scarlett are coming for a visit in Oct.

Hello Grammy's house!

Mar found out yesterday that she made the cast of the school play The Princess King.
Head Servant.
I told her she would be great at that since she's had so much practice {wink}.
She was thrilled, since a boatload of students tried out for the small cast of 30.

I'm not sure if I posted pictures of Mar's Christmas gift last year - I probably have, but I'm posting again anyway. Her vintage typewriter has found a home on the desk in our kitchen.

Lately there have been inspiring messages left on it.

What a super fun way to leave love notes, don't you think?

I think we'll keep it there indefinitely.

I noticed, however, that there is not an exclamation point on the keyboard.

Can you imagine life without exclamation points?

I've decided that surely, back in the day, they must have created an exclamation point with an apostrophe-backspace-period. Perhaps somewhere back in the far recesses of my mind I recall a time when I did that on a typewriter once.

I have recently been informed by my children that exclamation points are more polite in texting than smiley faces. Smiley faces can seem.... sarcastic, they told me. I told them that when I use exclamation points in texting it makes me feel demanding or loud. I sometimes find the differences between generations fascinating. Perhaps back in the day (of the vintage typewriter), exclamation points were viewed as demanding or loud... and obviously more unnecessary than fractions or a cents symbol (not on our current-day keyboards). Nonetheless, I have made a concerted effort to use more exclamation points (or periods, if an exclamation point is too strong) and less smiley/winky faces.

I love this message:

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Feeling grateful.