This was the kind of visit with Amara that we love. We had fun last weekend but our attempt at making Cinderella’s Pumpkin Carriage wasn’t our most successful bonding and crafting experience. Well, we more than made up for it this weekend. Amara came with movie and recipe book in hand and Grampy had decided [...]
Posts Tagged ‘baking’
Monkeying Around
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Amara’s Mommy with a recipe link for Cream Cheese Monkey Bread. The email simply said, “You make this for me.” While Jenna’s request was motivated by her love of cream cheese, she also knows that I am always looking for recipes that Amara and I [...]
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 [...]
Postponing New Year’s Eve
Well, sometimes things just don’t work out the way you plan them but as you will see this turned out to be all good! We had been planning to have Amara spend the night with us on New Year’s Eve but her Mommy called that afternoon to see if we would be OK with changing [...]
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 [...]
Making Monkey Bread
Last weekend was wonderful! It had been 2 very long weeks since Amara spent the night and we did our best to stuff it full of memories! We read books, we played on the swings and she even practiced her typing while I cooked dinner. Her elementary school has an awesome website and a link [...]
Sweet Cinnamon Biscuits and Sweeter Words
Seven is such a fun age! Amara was here last weekend and the three of us watched the Little Princess together. It was another great movie night and another great movie. However, the real fun was Sunday morning. My cousin had sent me a recipe for Sweet Cinnamon Biscuits and she thought Amara and I [...]