Sunday, April 24, 2016

Busy busy busy


A lot of families in our neighborhood have a couple or three kids who are each involved in multiple activities practically year-round. That hasn't turned out to be how we roll, for the most part, but right now, we're living at least a semblance of that life. Reed has flag football (two practices a week and a game on Saturday) and Amy's doing Girl Scouts, tennis and since I took this photo of our weekly family calendar she's added piano lessons as well. Oh and Tod's playing softball again, one night a week, and has been doing some extra time at work too. It's all good, since these are things the kids enjoy, but man it's a lot! We're accustomed to being home all the time and having our weekends totally open, so it's a bit of an adjustment. We'll get back to being lazy-ish sometime soon, I'm sure.

Friday, April 22, 2016

An Amy for Amy

Back in February, Amy got a special gift from Grandma Allder...


Grandma gave this Madame Alexander doll of "Amy" from Little Women to my Mom when she was nine years old, in 1960. (Wanda got the Jo doll.) Over the winter, Grandma had Poppy locate the doll with the plan of passing her along to Amy. Her clothes and hair were in great shape, but her body needed some work....so Poppy took Grandma to Maryland to visit a woman who runs a "doll hospital" at her house for repairs. Then Grandma washed the doll's clothes and got her all cleaned up to give to our Amy.

Poppy and Grandma took Amy out to lunch at Ford's Fish Shack and gave her the doll, who now has a special spot on the bookshelf in Amy's room.

Amy hasn't read "Little Women" just yet - she started on it but didn't quite get hooked in, so maybe when she's a little older she'll enjoy this classic book.