Author: Aimee

The Day We Found Out

Bryan was pulling files from an old hard drive and found a lovely peek into our past, below. Something he had written nearly 6 years ago.===================My wife called to me from another room. This wasn't a happy call. Her tone was different. Very different. Crap.…

Ode To My Husband

It's back! If you missed Animator vs. Animation, which was a little stick figure drawing taking over the Flash animation application... Bryan enlightened me last night that the dude made a new - dare I say, funnier - one:With the exception of the appearance of…

6 Guilty Pleasures, or, the Johnny Cougar Post

The lovely Smiler tagged me for this meme last week and I have been struggling how to post it because the first question is actually something I have been wanting to talk about for a long time. Something that is known at my workplace as…

Kindergarten is the New 6th Grade

One of Declan's homework assignments last night was to draw an outline of himself and then correctly draw where his internal organs were. I swear to God, the only one we told him to do were his intestines. We figured they needed to "represent" given…

No one has passed out… yet.

Guess what Declan got for his birthday?!? Yes! AQUA DOTS!Now that the friend who gave him the toy and I have exchanged some humorous emails over it, I feel I can publicly tease her about it without feeling passive aggressive. Sure, she feels horrible, but…

World Diabetes Day

I don't post about my diabetes much. Mainly because I am under tight control. My HA1C usually hovers in the high 5's which technically makes it as if my body doesn't even feel any diabetic symptoms. But it certainly does not make me non-diabetic.They found…

The Nonviolent Hitters Club

We had Declan's first Parent-Teacher conference for Kindergarten last week. Once we got past the perfunctory academic crap, I asked the real question that is on the mind of every Kindie parent."How is he doing socially?"Because Declan has always been a touch shy. Not around…