Sarah Rise Weekly Updates

Rehearsals for “All Shook Up” have begun! Last Sunday Sarah and I were at her school for three hours. The first hour was a talk by the director about all of the various nuts and bolts of the show and program ads (required for participation), and rehearsals. The next two hours were a read-through of… Read more »

There was only one day of in-person school last week. Monday was a holiday, Tuesday was a snow day, Wednesday was a “flexible instruction day” because of the cold, and Friday was another day for schooling at home, which is what a Flexible Instruction Day means. Having assignments to help Sarah complete took me right… Read more »

Amy graduated from Schroth therapy!! She still needs to do the exercises at home, but she doesn’t need to go in to the Children’s hospital every week or two to see her physical therapist. This is huge. We are both so happy about it. I like her physical therapist very much, but it is a… Read more »

Happy New Year! We celebrated New Year’s Eve at home with two other families. They are families of some of Amy’s best friends so she was not ready for the night to end at midnight. They could have played for many more hours. Meanwhile, Sarah went to bed at her usual 8:30! To pass the time until midnight Amy… Read more »

Our plan, whenever going somewhere sandy, is to spend time at the beach and the pool, the beach and the pool, the beach and the pool. Our trip to St. Thomas worked beautifully for that plan. We also had the added bonus of having Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop with us too! We stayed at a place… Read more »

I turned a game that Carl got for the girls into a drinking game. They don’t know that adults often play drinking games. What they know is that when we play The Fairy Game, a cooperative endeavor to save a garden, if someone draws an Old Man Winter card then everyone takes a drink of… Read more »

Last Sunday the girls and I made gingerbread cookies, and I marveled over how little they need my help with it anymore. I still put the trays in the oven and take them out, but that is largely because Sarah and Amy are busy rolling, cutting, and decorating their dough. Amy mostly used cookie cutters… Read more »

Sarah’s favorite sentence construction of late involves words preceding “but” and then the word “but” with nothing after it. We aren’t exactly sure how this came about, but…. It may be from some episodes of Daniel Tiger and/or when Sarah’s bus driver tried to console her when there wasn’t a lot of rain when she… Read more »

Our whole week was packed with fun experiences. The girls didn’t have school on Monday so we got our Christmas tree. We let it settle for the day and decorated it Tuesday after they were home from school. My favorite part was when Sarah wanted to climb a short step ladder, but then actually leaned… Read more »

Sarah had a piano recital last Sunday and all went smoothly once we got out the door. It can feel tricky to balance making time for a nap prior to getting dressed nicely for something while leaving enough time to get dressed and get past any protests. Thanks to Carl helping us both stay mostly… Read more »