Amara’s slumber party celebrating her 9th birthday had taken place on Friday night. I knew that her parents had worked their tails off to get ready for it and wouldn’t get much, if any sleep, so we invited Amara to spend the night with us on Saturday night. This also meant she would wake up [...]
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Jog-a-thon 2013
It was another wonderful day to be me! Last Friday was the annual Jog-a-thon at Amara’s school. I really didn’t think it was possible to have more fun this year than I had last year! But I really did! Last year I had gone with the expectation of just watching and ended up helping out. [...]
Multipurpose Helmet
A few months ago Amara, Jenna and I went shopping to find Amara a new bike helmet for our house. Amara has her old bike here but she didn’t have a helmet here, which meant if she didn’t remember to bring it she couldn’t ride! There had already been some tears when the girls across [...]
Our Trip to the Farm
Amara and I have been having fun together this summer. A few weeks ago we went with some of our friends and their moms to one of the local farms to take the strawberry tour. Jenna had an appointment that day and since I had grown up on a farm they thought it would be [...]
Just Your Ordinary Sleepover
It was just your ordinary sleepover and it was wonderful! I don’t want you to get the wrong idea and I don’t want Amara to look back 10 years from now and think that every sleepover was a huge event. Sometimes they are just ordinary and wonderful. Because we are so lucky to live close [...]
Memories on a Swing
Early this year my blog buddy Lisa over at Grandmas Briefs did a post about looking forward to 2012 and posing the question… “What’s the one word you hope defines 2012?” You should read it, it will really make you think. My word was “Rewound”. I wanted to go back to doing all the things [...]
Fun with Fred
Amara has anxiously been waiting for word about when her friend Fred was coming to visit. Last week we got an email from our friends letting us know they were definitely coming and they couldn’t wait to get here. They had been melting in Tulsa like everyone else while our area of southern California has [...]
Grandma’s Surprise Plan
Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? Amara spent the night with us last Saturday night and she really wanted to go to the beach on Sunday morning. The beach just wasn’t in the plans for the day so she settled for playing in the water in the front yard and we had [...]