Usually my posts on AmaraLand are about our personal adventures with Amara. I’m not sure I have ever posted anything here that was hearsay but I don’t want to ever forget this memory so I have to keep it here. Jenna, Amara’s Mommy and my awesome daughter, told me about what happened to her and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Amara’
Sharing with Amara
A few weeks ago Lisa over at Grandma’s Briefs introduced me to a great website called Open Source. Not only do I really enjoy it but they often post things (videos) that I can share with Amara. When Amara got her new computer for Christmas her Daddy set her up with a Gmail account so [...]
Mini Pizza Monkey Breads and The Smurfs
Grampy and I were really looking forward to Amara spending the night with us Saturday. I was lucky and got to see Amara a couple of times last week, even thought it wasn’t for very long. Grampy hadn’t been so lucky and he was really missing his girl. Amara and I had made big plans [...]
How to Define Grandma Pride
Yesterday was Amara’s first day back to school after a long Christmas break. I stopped by her house after work and she was telling me all the details and about how wonderful it was to see all of her friends that she had missed. The best part was when she told me they had all [...]
What Year Was That?
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. [...]
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 [...]