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Nora - the earbuds she "lost", a watch Eli - Lego (small box), scout knife Ivy - grips in the next size, chalk bag Marcus -

Marcus did dinner and the dishes and found the poster board (his classroom, obviously). I should say that part too. His passport envelope is sealed and on the hall table with the check in it. It has been on the hall table for six days.

Mama - new phone (Tunde is paying half), her vitamins, compression socks Folake - coffee, the skincare Kunle - ask Marcus Dayo - headphones Simi - Nora is picking chocolate, all of it nut-free school photos for Mama, printed, big

furnace filter (get 4) Stan for the furnace check - Oct gutters after the leaves hose bibs off + drained before the first freeze overseed the back, AGAIN caulk the window in the twins' room smoke detector batteries

we paid 385,000 for the house. 80% of that is 308,000 - we're under it as of the Aug payment = we can ask them to drop the PMI (57.75 a month). has to be requested in writing if we do nothing it comes off by itself at 78%, sometime next summer call Monday. 80…

tourist visa, apply online, then biometrics. need: passport valid 6+ months w/ 2 blank pages, photo, invitation letter + copy of the host's ID (Folake), flight itinerary, bank statement fee is per person, kids too Nigerian passports for Marcus + the kids thru…

gift: the room makeover - paint, string lights, a desk pancakes Monday 6:15

MARCUS - by mail. form DS-82, his old passport goes in the envelope, 1 photo, check $130 + $60 to expedite TWINS - in person, every time until they're 16. DS-11 x2. BOTH of us there. their birth certificates (fire box), old passports, photos, our licenses + a…

M - Eli soccer 5:45 (Marcus), Nora swim 5:30 (me there, Beth back) T - Ivy gym 5-7 (Linh) W - Nora piano 4:30 then swim (me) Th - Ivy gym (me), Eli scouts 1st + 3rd (Marcus) F - Nora swim (Beth there, Marcus back) Sat - twins swim lessons 9:15, soccer, meets…

practice Mon 5:45, fields behind the rec center games Sat, 10 or 11:15 our snack day is 10/10 - orange slices + the pretzels the pen from my bag goes in the team bag pocket w/ the orange tag while he plays

Otter Creek boards - $42 a night, needs bordetella within 12 months, pickup before noon. 16 nights = 672 Dana offered. split it? Dana the first week, kennel after. ask her

1. passports - Marcus: EXPIRED (Aug 2025). mail-in renewal - twins: run out this fall, before we go - Nora: good till March 2027 but Nigeria wants 6 months left when you land. so hers too - mine is fine (2029) 2. visas - can't apply till the new passports are…

And then I opened the pouch to put passport numbers into the booking and remembered. His expired a year ago. A YEAR. The form has been on the fridge since last July under a pizza magnet. The twins' are about to run out and Nora's doesn't have enough time left…

1 math 7 accelerated (Mr. Vance) 2 science 3 ELA 4 PE / health lunch 11:20 5 social studies 6 art 7 Spanish 1 locker 2117

Nora - student ID 3204417 - Larkspur 7th, advisory Ms. Lindahl rm 212 - bus 41 Eli - student ID 3411862 - Sawmill Run 3rd, Mrs. Okuda rm 14 - bus 22 Ivy - student ID 3411863 - Sawmill Run 3rd, Mr. Brennan rm 16 - bus 22 lunch PIN = last 4 of the student ID

Eli - 8, shoe 3.5 Ivy - 7-8 slim, shoe 2.5

She smelled like a campfire and a lake and she talked the entire ninety minutes home. Cabin Chickadee won the canoe thing. She used her inhaler twice and told the nurse herself. She wrote us one letter, which arrived Thursday and said, in full, "Camp is good.…

Tallgrass mails the lien release in 2-3 weeks, then take it + the title to the title office for a clean one ($15) the 434.70 now goes: 250 to the 529s, the rest to the Lagos fund till January

sleeping bag + pillow, fitted twin sheet 7 shirts, 4 shorts, 2 jeans, sweatshirt, rain jacket, 8 underwear, 10 socks 2 swimsuits, 2 towels, water shoes headlamp + batteries, water bottle, bug spray, sunscreen the braces kit + wax, rubber bands INHALER x2 in t…

6/1-6/12 twins rec camp. Nora home, swim AM 6/8-6/11 Nora babysitting course at the library 7/12-7/18 Nora at Sycamore Bend 7/25-8/2 Duluth, driving 8/12 school (twins), 8/11 Nora

subscriber: Marcus D Adeyemi, his DOB 11/2/1983 member ID CVH830216447 group WR-204417

690 total, 150 deposit today, balance + forms June 1 8800 Sycamore Bend Road, Logan OH 43138. office 740-555-0119 drop off Sunday 2-4pm. pickup Saturday 10am sharp no phones

W2 x2 1098 from Tessaly property tax, both halves dep care FSA + after-care statements 529s braces - started in Feb so that's NEXT year

9 kids: Jonah, Mai, Arjun, 3 from Eli's den, 3 from Ivy's gym pizza. 2 small cakes from the nut-free bakery - Eli chocolate, Ivy lemon sleepovers after: Ivy w/ Mai, Eli w/ Jonah. separate rooms

no gum, popcorn, caramel, hard candy, ice. apples + carrots cut up wax is in the upstairs bathroom drawer + her swim bag adjustments every 6-7 wks, they text the appt

50 free 31.87 100 free 1:08.94 50 back 36.45 100 IM 1:24.10

vault 9.10 bars 8.45 (fell on the pullover) beam 8.60 floor 9.00 all around 35.15 - 6th of 14 state qualifier is 34.0

3 c flour, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt 2.5 c milk, 2 eggs, 6 tbsp melted butter

Nora - AirPods, a real swim bag, the hoodie from the list Eli - Lego (the space shuttle), walkie talkies Ivy - grips + wristbands for bars, the big art kit both twins - booster seats, backless now Marcus - the spice grinder, planetarium tickets Maddie - $50 c…

turkey 20+ lb - Costco, pick up Sat Maren: rolls + lefse. mom: pies dad's diet - low salt. two stuffings extra chairs from Dana

total 5,480 Thistledown pays 1,500 (lifetime ortho max, per kid) ours 3,980 = 578 down + 18 x 189 FSA: raise Marcus's to 3,000 for 2026

tires 215/55R16 - new today oil 0W-20 wipers 26 + 18 plates renew on his birthday, 11/2

Ivy answers for Eli. She has since they could talk. And Eli lets her, and then tells the story of it afterward, at length. They're each other's whole audience. We said yes. Then I sat in the car in the school lot for a while. They've never done one single thi…

Eli - reading above grade (level N), math fine, "narrates everything" Ivy - math is her thing, 3rd grade challenge sheets. reading on level, rushes he recommends different classrooms for 3rd. we said ok

blood test: peanut IgE was 14.6 in 2023, 9.8 now. skin test still big (8mm) food challenge in the office maybe at 10 if it keeps dropping. NOT at home weight 55 lb - still the junior pen (0.15). regular one at 66 lb new pens picked up 10/9 - this pair expires…

tires 225/65R17 - new today. 35 psi front, 33 rear oil 0W-20, every 6k

$18/hr, $20 after 10 did the epipen trainer w/ me today twins' bedtime 8, Nora 9. no food for Eli that isn't from our pantry. Biscuit out at 8:30

bus 41, 7:05 at the corner. school is 7:40-2:35 Chromebook charger stays home PE uniform M/W/F lunch is 10:50

parents first - me (cell), Marcus (cell, then the school office) 1. Dana Whitlock - neighbor - 614-555-0166 2. for Nora: Beth Okonkwo - friend - 614-555-0185 for the twins: Linh Pham - neighbor - 380-555-0143 out of town: my mom, Karen Brandvold - 218-555-012…

- charges in the kitchen overnight - we know the passcode - no social media yet. group texts yes - locker during school - break it twice, she pays the 29

Nora's inhaler x2. Eli's pens x2 + the action plan copy for mom. benadryl Ivy - bring the splint just in case water shoes, sweatshirts Biscuit + crate hotel in Madison Fri night, booked

renew by mail - DS-82, the old passport, one photo, check for 130 form is printed and on the fridge. he says this weekend

Greg has a roofer coming Tues, he'll look at ours called Denise: wind/hail has its OWN deductible, a percent of the dwelling amount, not the flat 1,000. don't file unless the roofer finds real damage 6/24 - roofer says shingles are fine. no claim

The kids made breakfast under Marcus's supervision, which means the pancakes were geometrically interesting. Nora gave me a coupon book. One of the coupons is "one day of no eye rolling (not valid on school days)." Jess drove up. Mom called and sang. Mama cal…

She didn't cry until she found out about gymnastics. Eli has been bringing her things all day. Water, her blanket, a rock he likes. He's the one with the allergy and the ER story, and I think it rattled him to see it be her for once. He asked me if she needs…

ibuprofen 10 ml if it hurts, w/ food no gymnastics, monkey bars, trampoline, bike ortho follow-up 6/24 w/ a new x-ray

Marcus A+ Nora O+ Eli A+ Ivy A+

6/2-6/13 twins rec camp, Nora swim AM 7/7-7/11 Nora art camp 7/18-7/27 Duluth, driving 8/4 Marcus back. Nora's first day at Larkspur is the 12th, twins the 13th

Tues + Thurs 5-7. $142/mo, plus the leotard, plus meet fees Linh drives Tues, I drive Thurs

aspirin 81 - morning, forever clopidogrel 75 - morning, 12 months, do NOT skip atorvastatin 80 - night metoprolol 25 - twice a day nitro under the tongue if chest pain, then 911 cardiac rehab 3x a week for 12 weeks, starts April 7 follow up w/ cardiology 4/3

He's mostly angry that it happened at the hardware store. "Forty people watched me sit down on a pallet of salt." Mom has not sat down since Sunday. I made her eat a sandwich in the cafeteria and she told me three times that she'd noticed he was tired and sho…

me 9214667038 Marcus 9208814415 Nora 9377120564 Eli 9377120602 Ivy 9377120611

St. Brendan's in Duluth. one stent, went in thru the wrist. Erik got there before mom did home in 2 days if nothing changes flying up Tuesday, one way. Marcus has the kids, Dana has Thursday told Vivian

in: mine ~5,150, Marcus ~4,300 mortgage - autopay on the 1st Outback loan 434.70 - done July 2026 utilities + gas + internet + phones ~520 groceries 1,150 after-care 296 swim 77ish, gymnastics 92, piano 140 529s 50 x 3 savings 400

There was an empty chair and nobody mentioned it and everybody looked at it. The twins are asleep in my old room under the same quilt. Santa has been told we're traveling. The bikes are in Hal's garage 870 miles away and I've rehearsed the explanation.

3 eggs, 1/2 c sugar - beat till pale 1/2 c butter melted + cooled 1/2 tsp cardamom 1 tsp vanilla 3/4 c flour 1 spoonful, 20-30 sec a side on the iron, roll on the cone FAST makes about 30

shake. into the spacer. 1 puff, 5 slow breaths, wait a minute, 2nd puff 15 min before she gets in the water refill when the counter is under 20 one stays in the swim bag ALWAYS, one in the kitchen cabinet more than twice a week NOT for swimming - call Dr. F

health FSA (Marcus's, Paylark card) 2,400 dep care FSA (mine) 5,000 dental/vision same life - Marcus has 2x salary from the district and that's it. he says after the holidays

starts 10/25. cancel Granite Fork AFTER the new cards come the Civic - Marcus wants to deal w/ his own, it renews in January

no blood test this time, next year still 2 pens everywhere he goes new action plan - copy to Nurse Jenny, copy to after-care about 1 in 5 kids grow out of it

-1.25 both eyes, for distance 148 after the plan recheck in a year

twins - 1st, Ms. Adair rm 6 Eli's allergy table at lunch is the end of the 1st grade row

Eli 6-7, shoe 1 Ivy 6-7 slim, shoe 13.5 gym shoes, non-marking

50 free 35.80 100 free 1:19.42 50 back 41.15 50 breast 47.90 (DQ'd in prelims, legal in the final) coach Hannah wants the 100 IM in the fall

kitchen cans - BR30, 65w equiv, 2700K bathroom vanities - G25 globe garage - 4 ft LED tubes porch - A19, dusk to dawn fridge - A15

4/11 142/90 4/12 150/95 4/13 139/88 4/14 144/91

Bosch 300 (899) or the Whirlpool (649)

sølje - me (there's a letter) recipe box - Maren krumkake iron - me rosemaled bowl - Erik photo albums + hymnal - mom

I read the psalm. My voice held until "from this time forth" and then Nora, who is nine, reached over from the front pew and put her hand on my back, exactly the way I do to her. I don't know when she learned that. Mom gave me the sølje after, in the blue box…

funeral Sat 2/17, 11am, First Lutheran. visitation Fri 5-7 flying Thurs w/ Nora, back Sunday. Marcus keeps the twins mom wants me to read. Psalm 121 black dress is at the cleaners, pick up Wed tell Vivian

50 gal gas, Rheem. set to 120. 6 yr on the tank shutoff behind the basement bathroom panel is sticky

savings - Tallgrass - ending 9026 kids 529 - one each, all under my login Marcus pay goes to joint, mine 80/20 joint/savings

twins - the tablets, cases blue + purple. set up the kid profiles BEFORE wrapping Nora - swim parka (order thru the team), books Eli - Lego fire station Ivy - gymnastics mat, the folding kind Marcus - boots teachers: $20 cards x4

She didn't know the twins' names, and she called Nora "Karen" twice. But she knew me. She held my hand and said, in English and then in Norwegian, that I looked tired, and was I eating. Ivy put her drawing on the windowsill with the others. There are a lot of…

Mormor - visiting is 10-11:30 and 2-4. bring the kids' drawings I'm pies. Biscuit - Dana back Sunday

fine so far: the pizza place on State, Chipotle, the diner (allergy menu) NO: Thai, the burger place w/ peanuts on the floor, the ice cream shop unless they open a fresh tub + clean scoop Chinese - ask what oil

Marcus's district: medical stays Corvane PPO, family. health FSA 2,000 for 2024 mine: dental + vision for all 5 starting Jan 1. dep care FSA 5,000

ok: goldfish, the yogurt tubes w/out the facility warning, string cheese, applesauce pouches, Oreos, fruit snacks sunflower butter instead of PB no: granola bars basically all of them, trail mix, most bakery cookies, m&ms (all kinds), anything from a bulk bin…

Tunde flies in Fri night, stays at Kwame's the Ethiopian place on Cleveland Ave, back room, 7pm, 10 people cake from the nut-free bakery - order by 10/28 eyepiece kit for the telescope - Kwame is ordering, pay him back (~180)

Nurse Jenny - has the form + 1 pen ✓ Mrs. Kessler ✓ after-care ✓ (Miss Tori) Dana + Greg ✓ Linh ✓ mom + dad - told, need to practice when they visit Sunday school - NOT YET bus driver - ?

blue to the sky, orange to the thigh pull off the blue cap. swing + push the orange end into the OUTER thigh, thru pants is fine. hold 3 seconds call 911 every time, even if he looks better. tell them epinephrine was given second pen after 5-15 min if he's no…

I did what I do. I wrote the note, made the list of who needs to be told, called the school nurse before the allergist's parking lot. Marcus read the action plan twice and then went and threw out half the pantry without being asked, which is how I know he's s…

epipen jr x2: one in my bag, one in the school nurse office. Ivy tested too, she is fine.

It was a birthday cake. He was fine, and then his lips were the wrong shape, and then he threw up in the car and I drove to the ER with my hand reaching back between the seats so I could feel him. He's okay. He was okay the whole time, the doctor said, his br…

4:50 cake 5:10 hives on his neck, he said his mouth felt "spicy" 5:15 lips puffy. Dana gave benadryl from her cabinet (1 tsp) 5:25 threw up in the car 5:40 ER more benadryl + steroid there. watched till 9. never had trouble breathing Dana checked - frosting w…

Mrs. Abernathy, 66 Lindenbough Ct - Wednesdays 4:30, 30 min, $35. pay the first lesson of the month 15 min a day

bus 22 w/ Nora, same stop after-care M-Th in the cafeteria till 5:30. Fridays Marcus gets them, he's out at 3:10

mine - 2 1183 00417 6652 Nora - 2 1183 00529 0147 twins use mine till they're 6 PIN for all = last 4 of my cell

Gorecki - 6,480, 3 ton 16 SEER, new coil, 10 yr parts if registered the billboard company - 8,950 w/ a "today only" discount Dana's guy - 5,900 but 14 SEER and can't come for 3 wks going w/ Gorecki, install 6/14

6/5-6/9 Nora art camp (9-3), twins w/ Marcus 6/26-6/30 Nora at mom + dad's. Maren drives her from the airport 7/10-7/21 twins day camp at the rec center, 9-12 7/29-8/6 all of us Duluth twins start K 8/16

school nights - none for the twins, Nora 30 min after homework weekends - 1 hr each day, Switch counts car trips over 2 hrs - free for all none at the table

Eli came first at 2:17, loud. Ivy took eleven more minutes and came out looking around like she was checking our work. They wanted the same dinner (noodles) and different desserts, and they fell asleep in the same bed even though they have two.

grip socks are $3 each on top cake - half chocolate half strawberry, one cake, two names goody bags: bubbles, stickers, no candy

birth certificates (both - fire box) shot records - they need the 5 yr boosters before Aug 2 proofs of address screening day 4/12

Nora - feed Biscuit AM, empty dishwasher Eli - shoes in the bin, napkins Ivy - feed Biscuit PM (1 cup, level), water bowl $3 Nora, $1 twins for now

Nora - 8 slim, shoes 2 Eli - 5T / 5, shoes 11 Ivy - 4T tops, 5 pants, shoes 10.5 snow boots: all three

T - tacos W - leftovers / Marcus has conferences Th - pasta F - pizza Sat - jollof #4, Kwame + Abena Sun -

23 N - Toledo - 80/90 - 294 around Chicago (tolls) - 90/94 to Madison - Eau Claire - 53 N stop in Madison, the pool hotel off exit 135 leave by 6

- Atlanta connection again, not JFK - nothing planned the first 2 days - Eli does not sleep on planes. window seat + headphones - malaria pills in applesauce for the twins - go at Christmas - July is rainy season - cash for the airport. small bills

blend: 4 tomatoes, 3 red bell peppers (tatashe), 1 scotch bonnet (HALF for my kids), 1 onion fry a sliced onion in a lot of oil, add 3 tbsp tomato paste, fry it till it goes dark and stops smelling raw add the blend, cook down 20-25 min till the oil comes up…

Marcus took the kids to his father's grave on Friday. I stayed back at the car at first because I thought it was theirs to do, and then Folake came and got me by the arm and said "you're his daughter too, come." So I went. Eli asked if Baba could hear us. Mar…

She was waiting at the gate when the car pulled in last night. She took Eli's face in both hands, then Ivy's, and said something in Yoruba that Marcus wouldn't translate until later: "so you were real." She'd only seen them on a phone. Four years. Nora and he…

Folake's driver picks us up, Mr. Sunday Tunde lands the 9th, leaves the 20th church Sunday 8am, 3 hrs, snacks for the twins

passports + yellow cards + copies of everything in a different bag malaria pills, kids' ones are the small tabs bug spray (picaridin for the kids) kids' tylenol + motrin, benadryl, thermometer adapters - type G. 2 power banks tablets loaded BEFORE we leave on…

He didn't forget. He got Dana's niece to sit, made a reservation at the place in German Village where we went after the courthouse, and gave me a card where he'd drawn a free body diagram of the two of us. The forces balance. He labeled them. I gave him a new…

Mama - the cardigan, reading glasses +2.50 x3, her vitamins Folake - the skincare, coffee Kunle - Marcus is handling Dayo - Crew jersey, youth L Simi - art set everyone - chocolate

yellow cards are in the passport pouch. $215 a person to redo malaria pills - start 2 days before we fly, every day there, 7 days after

all five are in the blue pouch now. Marcus's runs out first - Aug 2025 her birth certificate is back in the fire box (it was in the OFFICE box)

1098 from Tessaly (only Aug-Dec) closing disclosure daycare receipts + their tax ID 529 contributions home office? ask

He went alone in 2020, eight days, and came home to a lockdown two months later, and I don't think he ever really got to be sad about it in the open. The twins don't remember Baba at all. Nora remembers that he let her hold his glasses. We have to take them.…

Nora - bracelet loom, dragon books 5-7, roller skates sz 2 Eli - excavator (the big one), train tunnel pieces Ivy - doctor kit, the unicorn that Mai has Marcus - red dot finder for the telescope, slippers 11 mom + dad - photo book, order by the 10th

furnace is a 2012 Carrier, fine AC is the original 1998. "start saving"

Nora's - can't do it until I find her birth certificate. box marked OFFICE, basement?

in it: birth certs (mine + the twins'. Nora's is MIA since the move), all 5 SS cards, passports in the blue zip pouch, marriage cert, both car titles, closing folder copy SAFE DEPOSIT - Tallgrass main branch, box 318. one key on my ring, one in the fire box.…

I cried at the stop. Dana, who I have known for three weeks, handed me a tissue from her pocket without a word.

bus 22, Quillfeather + Tansy. 8:12, home 3:47 library Thurs

was still registered to the rescue, changed it to us

2710 - Hal 2717 - Linh + Tom Pham, Mai (3 also) 2721 - the boat people. haven't met HOA guy is Rick something, 2702

kitchen - same but satin Nora - Sea Salt SW 6204 twins - Quietude SW 6212, one wall trim - Extra White, semi gloss front door is the old owners' red, don't know the name

We drove over after with a pizza and ate it on the living room floor because there is no furniture until the 14th. Nora ran every room and counted the closets (nine). The twins found the echo. Biscuit peed on the back lawn immediately. Marcus stood in the kit…

- cashier's check from Tallgrass (Thurs lunch), amt comes from the title co wed - utilities in our name starting 8/6. internet install is the 16th - mail forward 8/14 - renters ins: cancel END of aug not before - truck sat 8/14 8am. Kwame + Tunde - Nora schoo…