The funniest thing happened over dinner the other night. We had friends over the day after Christmas and I served Amara and their little boy sparkling apple cider out of champagne glasses. Sparkling apple cider is one of those special treats I like to get for Amara. She asked why I was using different glasses. [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Happy Holidays
From All of Us to All of You!
Honor Roll Four-Peat
Amara did it again! She made The Principal’s Honor Roll for the first trimester of second grade. For those of you who may have just joined us, she made the honor roll all year while she was in first grade. She gets her report card today when Mommy and Daddy go to her parents/teacher conference [...]
Making Bread Pudding
This is another episode of Previously on Amara from January of 2009. Amara was about 5 years old. I was inspired to write this post after visiting Nanny Anna’s blog and reading her post about Peach Bread Pudding. I have always loved homemade bread pudding. So when I got to craving it I thought it [...]
What would Santa think?
Last weekend when Amara was here the two of us started decorating our little Christmas Tree. It is a fake tree that Grampy and I have had since we moved in here and we like it! Like all Christmas Trees the best part of the tree is the decorations and the memories that they hold. [...]
The Nightmare
The nightmare began 17 days ago. I’ve wanted to blog about it but I was waiting until there was some kind of end to the story. Amara’s school had another skating party. This time I was going with them but I wasn’t going to skate. I just wanted the chance to spend some time with [...]