Jennifer Briggs

We had a wonderful relaxed time at one of our favorite lake beaches with Amy’s bestie and her parents, finishing the trip we began last week. There was another kid on the beach who became friends with our crew and connected with Sarah as well as Amy. It was beautiful to witness another kid ask… Read more »

Last Sunday we had what felt like a requisite quintessential summer experience of going to an event (the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix) on a hot day and traipsing all over in the heat, drinking overpriced lemonade, and eating fair food the came with a gigantic amount of fries. The fries came with one order of… Read more »

In my last update I forgot to detail a significant moment at the beach, along with the fact that we were so glad to see family there and had a great time. We even managed to avoid getting sunburned! That is a minor miracle and Amy was impressed even if she disliked the many times… Read more »

Sarah and Amy had an artful week of Camp Anna, this time including Amy’s BFF. They went to the pool and library and sewed bags and made hair bows, stickers, drawings of negative space, contour drawings, and played a musical version of Simon where Anna or a kid played notes on a xylophone while saying… Read more »

On Monday Sarah and I had our customary time at the pool where Sarah gets a lesson and Amy and I swim. Amy didn’t go this time because she had already gone swimming at camp. A few weeks earlier when we had been leaving the pool I was so shocked to see the lifeguard looking… Read more »

Roughly twenty years ago I started my journey with the Alexander Technique. I feel like all of my experience thus far has been preparing me for this moment in my life now, helping Amy with her Schroth therapy homework. So far we only have three things for her to practice – breathing to engage her… Read more »

It was a quiet week. Amy started day camp with one of her BFFs. Camp was supposed to include daily swimming but then the lifeguards who had been hired didn’t show up. We have been told swimming will happen this coming week so our fingers are crossed. Sarah doesn’t have camp at the moment so… Read more »

We now have a rising 7th grader in the house! Amy finished her last week of 6th grade with a fun-filled day at Kennywood with some of her best friends. Kennywood is a local amusement park. In past years we have all gone as a family but this year Sarah had Music Camp with one… Read more »

With Sarah home from school, Carl worked from home almost every day this week so I could teach and see clients. On Tuesday I had the day to be with Sarah and we went uniform shopping so she is all set for school in the fall – except for the tiny detail that the school… Read more »

We now have a rising 10th grader! Sarah is all done with school! Somehow I had no cognitive dissonance when I knew her graduation activities were on Friday June 2, but that her school calendar went through June 6. I assumed she would have the graduation activities and then finish out school on Monday and… Read more »