Well, it is winter vacation right now so our bedtime reading schedule is all messed up. You also have winter vacation homework so that throws a wrench into my plans to study some things over the vacation. I have managed though to keep reading to you. The book we just finished is Anne of Green [...]

You had a commercial audition yesterday Sudona. Unfortunately you didn’t do a very good job. You practiced a lot at home and did a great job practicing. And what you had planned on doing was good and interesting. But, when you got on stage in front of the judges you got extremely nervous. This has [...]

Yesterday, both of you girls were riding the bus with your mother. Actually, you were coming back from a commercial audition but I will write about that later. While you were on the bus an elderly lady saw you girls and decided that she wanted to talk with you. You girls get a lot of [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post Sudona was a regular model for Pink Mini Dog. Now it looks like they are having great results from using Avya so she will be a regular Pink Mini Dog model. It’s pretty cool to see Avya follow in her big sister’s foot steps. There were definitely no [...]

It is so great to see you girls finally doing some real playing together. I often questioned whether or not you girls would ever learn to play together. I still wonder how close you will be when you grow up. We were very intentional in putting so many years between the two of you but [...]

It is great to see you fit in so well in school Sudona. From the way you talk and the way I see you interact with your friends it seems like you are more of a leader than a follower. I prefer it this way but you have to find your own path to happiness [...]

I’m still plugging away at the things on my bucket list. I am now coming up on 7 months of daily exercise. At this point I have so much time invested that there is no way that I am going to miss a day of exercise. Most days it is not a problem – I [...]

I don’t know if it is a good thing or a bad thing but Sudona still believes in Santa. I kind of feel guilty about lying to her at her age. I just hope that she figures it out soon and asks me about it. Here is the letter she wrote to Santa this year. [...]

Your mother started attending dance class after she saw me getting into exercising everyday. She has been doing a great job of sticking to it and she seldom misses a class. I have seen a huge difference in the way she looks and her increased energy level. She is looking like the girl I pursued [...]

You have been getting older Avya and now you seem to be able to entertain yourself for stretches of time. This is quite different from Sudona – Sudona never managed to learn how to play on her own.  But, when learning to play by yourself you still have to learn what is okay to do [...]