Sarah Rise Weekly Updates

Sarah’s dreams have come true. . . . She needs glasses! She only barely needs them, being a tiny bit farsighted, but because she was singing gleefully about how much she loved glasses while she had her annual check up at the eye doctor, the doctor figured she wouldn’t mind having glasses. Now the only… Read more »

Ice cream! We have been enjoying so much ice cream lately. Friday night was family night at Carl’s work that included a Millie’s ice cream stand, so of course that is where we started. Then the girls raced a robot, climbed into the cab of a semi-truck and did cartwheels in the parking lot. My… Read more »

I may have purchased 8 quarts of blueberries! That is a lot of berries! Sarah helped me make a blueberry pie using Grandma’s recipe for the best blueberry pie ever. It really is the best. Sarah also helped sort berries so we could freeze some. This morning I am going to make blueberry bread and… Read more »

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 »