Long before Amara was ever born her Mommy had some very strong opinions on how children and parents should behave in public. I like to think that I played a role in her mindset. I think she remembers the time when as a 4 or 5 year old she was physically removed from a store [...]
Archive for the ‘Granddaughter’ Category
Valentine’s Day in Amara’s classroom
Today I was a lucky Grandma and got to spend Valentine’s Day with Amara and with her Mommy, 2 of my most favorite people. I love it when it is 3 generations of us together in Amara’s classroom. I’ve said it before, we are very lucky to live so close to the kids. I am [...]
Puffer Face
This is another episode of “Previously on Amara”. This one is from February of 2008, she was almost 4 years old! I had to share this memory. Amara really has a difficult time not laughing… It all started when Grampy asked Amara if she had ever seen him imitate a balloon? I’d never seen him [...]
Holiday in New York
December has been a busy month and while we have made some wonderful new memories I haven’t found the time to blog about them. So today I will start trying to play catch up. I told you about how much fun Amara and I had singing Christmas Carols for the neighbors, well the following weekend [...]
Not your ordinary Christmas caroling
Amara spent the night with us last night. I was thinking that we hadn’t really done anything blog worthy until I sat here tonight with Grampy and looked at the pictures. I know I’ve said before that I love living in the digital age but it’s true. When Amara’s Mommy was little I would have [...]
Gobble, gobble, gobble
It is so much more fun to bake a pecan pie with the help of your 6-year-old granddaughter then it is to bake that pie alone! Amara spent the night with us last night and this morning was Thanksgiving project time! We had three projects planned. The first was to make the pecan pie that [...]
Concert in the Park
Last weekend Amara and I had a wonderful adventure together, just the two of us. We went to a Concert in the Park. One of the wonderful things about living in Southern California is all of the wonderful parks. Amara and I have been to many parks together and while this park was close it [...]