Amara’s first week of school is officially over and she absolutely loves it! Justin took her first day of school off so that he could go with Jenna to drop off and pick up. Jenna supplied us with lots of pictures of that day but for Grampy and I the best part was when she Read the Rest
It all started back in February of 2013. I had written the blog post “STAR Awards” and it featured this picture. This is a picture of Amara and 2 of her best friends — best friends both then and now. They had all gotten STAR Awards. STAR is the “Standardized Testing and Reporting Program”. I Read the Rest
This is not a happy post but I feel like I have to talk about it. We are fine. Amara and her family are fine but life at Amara’s school is not fine. Some of you may have read about it already on Facebook but let me explain what I know. Last Tuesday afternoon, during Read the Rest
Looking back over the last few years, I never seem to get much posted in November. November is always busy and I always get behind. So let me catch you up on what has been going on. Movie Night was actually October 30th but we will include it anyway. Movie Night is always fun and Read the Rest
It has been over 2 weeks since I wrote about the highlights of our summer. Once again, we’ve been busy having fun and I just haven’t taken time to write about it. “Taken time” somehow makes it seem like there was time – there has been no time! I’m hoping with this long holiday weekend Read the Rest
This is hard to write. For months now, we have known that Matthew, Mo and the girls might be moving. We’ve known it would be a wonderful opportunity for their family but deep down inside we hoped it wouldn’t happen. We would miss them all so much. We admit we are selfish. It all became Read the Rest