2023 - 2025 Years In Review (Podcast Eposide At The End!)

Well...I'm now trying to play catch up with some of the pictures I could find.  

You are a teenager now and I do not see you that often anymore.  

From these years I remember that  you have great taste, you are still artistic and you love fashion. You absolutely love history, biographies and researching people like Alexander the Great.  

 I'm super proud of you and the young lady you have become!

2025

All the stuff I got for you with my Sentara Points. 

What I made for your 15th Birthday.  It's a money flower, 

Me explaining how grade point averages worked. 

2024

I texted you this one day because it reminded me of your school mascot

2022 Year in Review

 Here you are in 2022.  

Somehow I didn't take a lot of pictures this year.  

You had a great year.  

Here we are at the skating rink.  You were skating for the first time and did a WONDERFUL job.  I think I still can skate but was too afraid of falling down and breaking something!

You at the skating rink when we are getting ready to leave. 

You and your dad at the African American Museum creating music on a sound system. 

You and your dad reading the documents at the museum 

Us getting ready to leave the hotel in D.C. waiting on the valet to bring us the car. 

You and your mom looking like twins. 

A picture that you drew.  Talent. Talent. Talent. 

Friday's are pizza night.  Saturday's are clean-up pizza day. 

You helped me set up a booth at local antique shop.  Still trying to get rid of the stuff from the gift shop. 

You at a fancy restaurant on the water, not wanting to take the picture!

Still at the restaurant and "sort of" smiling for the picture...you are waiting for your braces to be able to smile!

You in Glouster beside the Pocahontas statue.  

This this 2022 in review!
Love you Danaja,
Ridea

2021 Interview - 10 years old

Below is the interview I did with you on 7/10/21 when you were 10 years old about some of your favorite things:

Watch YouTube   - SSSniper wolf and The Norris Nuts (British)

Play X Box Games in Dad's room - Sims 4 and GTA 

Eat favorite foods -  Mac and Cheese; Crabs; Shrimp; Mussels and Cinnamin Dots

Favorite Singer - Chloe X Halle

Favorite Rapper - Lil Baby and Da Baby

Favorite Subject - Reading

Favorite Books Read - Sisters and Smile

Danaja 2021 Year In Review

 Another Year 2021 and here are a few pictures in review. 

Interesting Restaurant we found in Williamsburg called "Food For Thought"

We went to Ripley's Believe It Or Not 

I asked you some of the things you wanted to do...to create... to be...

I can't remember where we were eating this. 

We went Sailing in Yorktown and I absolutely love this picture of you smiling and enjoying yourself. 

This is the Coleman bridge opening up as we were on the sailboat

This is the reason why the Coleman bridge opened up for this ship to pass under it. 

Still on the Sailboat

We are at RiverWalk Restaurant in Yorktown and you said this was the "best" burger you have ever had and you and I both know that is a tall order because you are the best food critic there is. We also both know I am NOT a cook, so don't even try anymore.  You however are a good cook and this year you practice making "Danaja's Sauce" over and over again.  

From time to time this year you worked on your art.  You love art.  You are art. Don't ever forget that!

This was a blanket that I brought you off of Amazon.  It was too small and very thin.  We put it on the wall then I took it down, never forget that I love you am always with you...even when you can no longer see me!  You know I can see you and routing for you!!!

At Food Craft in Newport News

Still at Food Craft

We are at the Restaurant at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum's restaurant.  You had a mac and cheese that they made in front of us.  The museum was amazing! If I can find the pictures I'll add them to this post. 

At Red Robin's I said "Hey Danaja" and you looked up!

Danaja's 2020 in Review

Here's to 2020.  
There was a before 2020 and an after 2020. 
COVID changed everything...but we still managed to have fun together. 
 

At the beginning of the Year we visited the Children's Museum of Portsmouth. 
You wrote yourself a million dollar check for CHICKEN!

You sitting in a HUGH purple chair

Playing a game at the museum 

Cool computer images of yourself and other kids at the museum. 

You were into this...you are competitive!

The City on Newport News was demolishing the old K-Mart and invited the city out to paint it before they tore it down. 

What you ended up making...see the video below how you got there. 

You visiting Mikayla's college dorm room - VCU - before COVID shut it down.
So glad we went so you could have that experience. 
Here you are enjoying basketball in the lobby. 

Here you are sitting in another big chair.  What is it with these big chairs!

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When we first got to the dorm room, you were like what is the big deal. 

Your dad helping you do your hair...and you hiding from taking a picture. 

You actually like this summer activity book. 

You after you finished eating at Byrd's a restaurant near your mom's job. 

You before you started eating at Byrd's for breakfast. 

Us at a restaurant at Yorktown before going sailing...you didn't like the food. 

One of the days you had your phone. 
Your kept losing it over and over again for looking up things you should have been.  

Actually it was "hurricane" like winds and rain so the sailing trip was cancelled.
Do you remember that I still wanted to go and have the "experience" and you kept saying...but Ridea? Anyways they cancelled it.  These are some pirates outside a yacht. 

Us taking a picture in front of the LOVE sign in our COVID masks. 

You in front of "L" for Love'

On the beach in Yorktown.  

My favorite picture of you having fun at the beach in Yorktown.

Riding the train in Yorktown. 
We had to buy these raincoats because of the downpour.
You had fun on that trolley.  We were the only one's on it besides the driver.  

After all the fun for the year...here you are.