Amara spent the night with us Saturday night and as always we had a blast. This week’s movie was Bright Eyes with Shirley Temple and while I don’t think it was Amara’s favorite, Grampy and I really enjoyed it! Seeing southern California, especially the Valley and the Burbank Airport in the mid thirties was kind [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Making Monkey Bread
Last weekend was wonderful! It had been 2 very long weeks since Amara spent the night and we did our best to stuff it full of memories! We read books, we played on the swings and she even practiced her typing while I cooked dinner. Her elementary school has an awesome website and a link [...]
Decorating Grampy
This is another episode of Previously on Amara and is from an email to my little sister Sandy that I wrote in August of 2008. Amara would have been four. It is two memories I want to save for her. From the email…I am sure I have told you before but Amara’s Daddy sent her [...]
Special Citizen of the Week
Grampy and I have been going through withdrawals this week because we haven’t seen Amara in forever! Her Aunt was here visiting from Virginia last week and it was one of her other Grandpa’s birthdays. PLUS, I worked a lot of extra hours last week so I didn’t get to just “stop by” for any [...]
Sweet Cinnamon Biscuits and Sweeter Words
Seven is such a fun age! Amara was here last weekend and the three of us watched the Little Princess together. It was another great movie night and another great movie. However, the real fun was Sunday morning. My cousin had sent me a recipe for Sweet Cinnamon Biscuits and she thought Amara and I [...]