Author: Aimee

Yesterday: 74 degrees. We spent the day getting the backyard ready for Spring. About 15 bags and bundles worth of leaves, sticks and assorted remnants of dormancy. I had shorts on, we put on sunscreen, and I noticed how every single tree was budding, as…

This morning on the way to school, out of the blue...Declan: So, Mama, will you be working at your company forever?Aimee: Well, I can't tell you that for sure, but I know it will be a long, long time.Declan: But could you stop working there?Aimee:…

I know, I know. The photo posts are probably getting old. But I am sitting in BWI flipping through the trillion pics I took this weekend, drinking a beer, plugged into the wall with my laptop, waiting for my flight home, and thus photos are…

Wow, what a difference a major stay in the hospital makes.See, before, Aunt Heidi was very tight-lipped about politics. But I guess she has a new motto after being attacked by a flesh eating bacteria, because she is lettin' it ALL HANG OUT. We all…

I realize Declan has a leg up in the art category, given the fact that both his parents are graphic designers. But, sometimes I think graphic design is just encoded in his genes, because I swear, we didn't influence these two little illustrations Declan did…

Meeting after meeting after meeting.Phone ringing in my ear.Emails that make my head want to burst.Having to pull out the inner bitch on vendors.Wanting to throw things when hanging up the phone.Mouth is sucked dry from talking all day.Now off to a PTA Meeting.Looking forward…