Author: Aimee

Over the past several months, I have felt great guilt as I watched Bryan struggle to render his 3D homework on his old Mac in his basement office. While I happily do the blog dance on my lovely newish iMac in my upstairs office. (If…

Taking the multitudes of my old Diet Sprite bottles and turning them into attempts at growing plants from seed for the garden, half of which will fail and will be replaced by store-bought plants. It's still fun to try. Any excuse to get dirty, right?

"Mama, when you laugh, your belly looks like Santa Claus."

My nephew Ridgely turned TWO today. He calls me Aunt May-mee. Well, he won't actually talk to me when I am on the phone, but he has long, involved conversations with me on the cell phone case. For literally like 20 minutes at a time.…

You may have noticed the gobbledygook in the sidebar now. Yes, I sold out. I added Google Ads. And in my first day, I earned... a WHOLE PENNY!But here's the thing. Like I said below, I am really enjoying writing this blog. At work, I…

Last night Declan had a bad dream. He cried for us and I actually heard him for once (through the fog of my nighttime medication)... so I got up to help him. He was sitting up on his bed in a daze with tears running…

Since Declan has allergies and (mild) asthma, he takes a variety of medications every night just like I do. One of them is Zyrtec syrup, which has been the blessing that has allowed me to keep my cat.But tonight, I almost made a grave mistake.For…