The real purpose behind “Life in Amaraland” is to have a place to store and share all of the wonderful Amara stories. But there are also those wonderful little moments — the little moments that just fill my heart with love and bring a smile to my face but that don’t really warrant an entire [...]
Posts Tagged ‘art’
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 [...]
Tell me a secret
This is Grampy’s first post on Amaraland. I hope there will be many more. ~Grandma Kc When Amara comes to visit she sometimes hangs out in the office with me when I’m working on the computer. Apart from trying to take over the mouse if I”m working on anything with graphics in it, she likes [...]
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 [...]
Oh No! She’s turning blue!
I love days when I get to do something special with Amara — like pick her up from school. I had one of those days a few weeks ago. Mommy had some place she had to be so lucky Grandma got to pick her up and bring her home. It was a beautiful afternoon so [...]
Let’s go to Pretend City
If I ask Amara what she wants to do tomorrow you can almost be sure the answer will be “Go to Pretend City”! So we had made plans to meet Celia and Miss Monique there this weekend. Pretend City is an amazing kids’ museum, rated the 2010 Editors Choice award by Orange County Parenting. Here [...]
Amara starts 1st Grade
It’s hard to believe that Amara will be starting 1st grade on Monday. 1st grade! How did we get here so quickly. I was reading Grandma Shelley’s blog the other day and she was talking about the many first we grandparents get to experience. A couple of years ago I was taking a HTML class [...]