Sarah Rise Weekly Updates

The second piano lesson for the girls went beautifully. Each girl had about twenty minutes individually and then they shared an activity at the end. I seriously cannot imagine a more perfect teacher for beginning piano students. The girls practiced what they had done once but haven’t wanted to since then and I am hesitant… Read more »

The girls had their first piano lesson on Monday. It went well and I also think it is good to have them sharing the lesson time. Amy gets anxious about doing things right the first time (I have no idea where she gets that) and Sarah doesn’t seem to mind at all if she doesn’t… Read more »

Sarah did a lot of floating by herself in her swim lesson! She is now officially a Minnow! Amy has been a minnow for a while but they were letting her stay in Sarah’s Starfish class time because that was so much easier for us. Now we have to move to a different time slot… Read more »

While talking to my mom I realized that there are many areas of life that used to be challenging that are now easy. School mornings, getting out of the house to get Amy from school, and bedtime. I don’t even remember when some of these things were hard except that I know a year ago… Read more »

I’ve had some moments, mostly Friday afternoon and evening, where I felt embarrassed and disappointed about my parenting. I yell. I grump. I speak with judgement, disappointment, disdain, and impatience in my voice. I wish I didn’t. I’m not proud of that part of me. I resolve many times that I won’t do any of… Read more »

When I got home from my trip (which was wonderful), I soaked up love and welcome. Sarah was clearly pleased to see me when I met her bus and Amy leapt into my arms while telling me how much she missed me and loved me. I’ve been really focusing more on noticing the love in… Read more »

Lately Sarah likes to bring our stroller to Amy’s school pick-up. Either Sarah pushes an empty stroller or I push her in it while she reads. I love that. I love how much she loves books. Every morning I give her a book to read on her bus. Most of the kids have ipads but… Read more »

Sarah started asking to sit next to S, an older kid on her bus. Wednesday morning it was arranged so S was next to Sarah! They are now next to each other for every ride. One afternoon while eating yogurt, Sarah started singing “why did the kids put yogurt on Olivia?” Instead of “why did… Read more »

Amy lost her first two teeth! Miraculously, the tooth fairy even found us when we were in a hotel. For Amy’s first tooth she wrote herself a note to remember to put it under her pillow (Put [picture of tooth] undr pilo). We attended a family wedding this past weekend, thus the slightly delayed sending… Read more »

Note to self: if the girls are allowed to play in the car I need to start checking it every time they are done to make sure no inside lights are on or else the car battery might die. For instance. Last weekend we had a marvelous time camping. As we were assembling our enormous… Read more »