Our Peanut

Goodbye

This poem was discovered mysteriously in my Mom's house, a few days after my Dad died, and kept on the bulletin board until read by a good friend of the family at my Mom's funeral on October 24, 2008.

To Those I Love
by Isla Paschal Richardson

If I should ever leave you whom I
love
To go along the silent way, grieve
not,
Nor speak of me with tears, but
laugh and talk
Of me as if I were beside you, for
Who knows but what I shall be
often-times?
I’d come, I’d come, could I but find
a way!
But would not tears and grief be
barriers?
And when you hear a song I used
to sing,
Or see a bird I loved – let not the
thought
Of me be sad, for I am loving you
Just as I always have…you
were so good
To me….so many things I wanted
Still
To do….so many, many things to
say to you…
Remember that I did not fear…
it was
Just leaving you I could not bear
to face
We cannot see beyond…but this
I know;
I loved you so. “Twas heaven here
with you.”

Lettuceheads

Charlie joins a long line of Hoffmanns who've worn lettuce on their head - his great grandfather, his grandfather, his dad.... And now Charlie brings the lettuceheads into the 21st century and beyond!

The Jumper

Kinder Kalisthenics

Jeepers Creepers Where'd You Get Those Peepers?

Finding the Feet

Moses Hoffmann

Let my poo poo go!

The Smile

I Think the Blue Eyes Are Going to Stick

First Generation Gillerds

Junk in the Trunk

More Charlie

A Guy I Was Sitting Next To on the Plane

I'm posting this to establish some balance between all these cute Charlie pics.

Charlie Hoffmann

Close-up

Smiling Eyes

We have two undocumented but undeniable smile sightings from Charlie. Here he seems to be on the verge of one.

Even When They're Closed, They're Big

Feet

Pa Imitating Charlie's Poop Face