Sarah Rise Weekly Updates

It is only now that I’m less busy in a big way that I’m able to ask the girls to help load their dishes in the dishwasher or make their lunches. When I was feeling busy all the time, then it felt easier and faster to do everything myself. I’m embarrassed to only now be… Read more »

Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ Keep those dice rollin’ Hello Kitty! If you imagine the above words to the tune of “Rawhide” you can picture us singing that while playing Hello Kitty Bingo. That is something the girls and I did long ago when it was still a new and big thing to have Sarah play a… Read more »

Speech therapists help kids learn to talk and to play with tigers. If you didn’t already know that, Sarah has clarified it while waiting for her bus. That is her customary time of pretending to be a speech therapist. Apparently SLPs also help kids learn to play with speedometers. Sarah’s interest in watching videos of… Read more »

Would I like to spend an entire day hanging out with Amy? You bet I would! Last Sunday Amy and I spent the day together driving to Cleveland so she could meet Clawed Beauty, a person she follows on YouTube. We knew we would have close to three hours of driving each way, but we… Read more »

It was a very cold week, but luckily the girls’ schools did not call for any delays. I enjoyed reading while snuggled under blankets, especially the electric throw that my mom gave me as an early birthday present. The place I where I use it the most is the dining room. It is the coldest… Read more »

On Monday morning I was soooooooo nervous as I prepared for a very short tv interview on Good Day PA, a show filmed in Harrisburg, PA. Knowing the whole thing was live and would only be three or four minutes felt like way more pressure than if it was half an hour or an hour…. Read more »

Alright everyone, please wear your best musical notes and stripes! Anticipating her upcoming adventure with her aunt and uncle to see a performance of Goodnight Moon, Sarah eagerly instructed an imaginary group of people about how to dress for the show. It occurred to me that no one ever is normally given the instruction to… Read more »

I can’t remember a time when I had such two momentous events in such a short span of time. The book launch a week ago was a bigger threshold than I expected and not in the way I anticipated. Somehow with all of my eagerness for the publication and launch, I didn’t think about how… Read more »

I thought Tuesday was a big day, but yesterday was one of the biggest most wonderful days of my life. Tuesday my book officially became available, and that was surreal and exciting to see people’s pictures as they held their pre-ordered copies. To celebrate the day we made milkshakes, commemorating the moment so many years… Read more »

This week I did a lot of interviews! It is so exciting to be talking to people about my book, and it also comes with a learning curve regarding technology. I used headphones for some podcasts but not others. For one, I recorded my half of the audio using Audacity. I did an instagram live… Read more »