Author: Aimee

Healthy Unhappiness

When I was pregnant, I enhaled every parenting book possible. Jeff got me one that summed up all the current philosphies and strategies and it definitely had some interesting stuff in it. But one little diagram stood out for me as a major "a-ha!" moment,…

Miracles of Modern Technology

I love how we get information nanoseconds after it happens these days. Just got the word that my very good friend Teresa is in labor as of this morning. Here is the weird part, I had this overwhelming feeling about it last night and emailed…

So proud of us.

We walked into Labor weekend with virtually nothing planned for us. That never happens. We have plans into October right now; we are usually at least 4-6 weeks out. But somehow Labor Day slipped by me and we had nothing planned. That doesn't mean we…

I *do* realize how lucky I am…

Bryan and I just spent the past 3 hours reconciling our checkbook from the past year. And we're only up to May 2006. (Oops).First, I know I am lucky because Declan has started making good friends, and had his first drop-off playdate at Trudy's house…

Syriana

Fucking awesome movie. Should be required viewing for every high school student in America.Not because it's a primer on exact Middle East + oil relations... but because it shows how complicated, convoluted and estranged the whole situation is. And shows that the post-9/11-us-vs.-them, it's-cut-and-dry banter…