All my friends know that I love Halloween! Really, what’s not to like? Candy, dressing up, scary movies the week before Halloween, and having fun walking around the neighborhood with friends (did I say candy???) – it’s all there! I tried to find Rachel’s first costume with no luck 🙁 It was an adorable little…
Sarah Amelia is doing some really cool stuff. I have been intending on posting this for a while but never had the opportunity to actually capture it on video! She has been sitting pretty well for a little while. That has advanced to going from tummy to sitting up, and now scooting a little! On…
It has been a long time since I have posted a “Sarah Amelia” centric blog. I must remedy that! We have taken so many pictures, and I have been trying to figure out how to put them together. Well, I will be 80 before I ever think of anything clever, so I am just going…
We are back in full swing. School is back in session. I like the routine of school, but school time results in a lot of pressure for the modern day parent. Despite my suggestions to drop an extracurricular activity, Rachel seems pretty set to stay the course with all of her activities. Well,…
Every once in a while, something happens that REALLY surprises me. Yes, that sounds a little dramatic, but last Sunday I found a little present on my front door…. First, some backstory. We live in what most would describe as an idyllic suburb, at least that is what most of the advertisements about our neighborhood…
I always dreamed that someday my offspring would play the piano and/or some musical instrument. This stems from a few different things: (1) I desperately wanted to play the piano but it didn’t work out for me (2) despite not getting to learn the piano, I was able to join the school band (3) music…
Can you believe that Sarah Amelia is 6 and 3/4 months old! Wow – amazing! Last week Sarah’s 6 month well-child check and vaccinations coincided on the same day as the first day of school for Rachel. It would take too much back story to explain the reason that the two big things happened on…
“Mom, it’s great that you love the baby so much, but you need to pay more attention to me”. This was Rachel’s random comment when I was getting stuff ready for the baby this morning. “Well, what should I do?” “You can sit next to me and watch me play this game on the iPad”.…
When people back home ask, “do you live in the city?” I say well, sort-of… For a person that grew up in a town with two caution lights, I don’t have super high criteria for what in fact is a “city”. Not that growing up in a small town is bad, because I think it…
It was tough to think of a song title for this one, because the topic kind of rambles. I thought of Dancing Queen, Tiny Dancer but that was too specific. In terms of a non-song title, it could also be titled – the tale of the purple leotard/summer adventures 2013. This summer has come and…