Author: Aimee

Just Say No

We were approached a few weeks ago to do a web site revamp on an existing Abstinence Only program (i.e., the "Just Say No" of sex education). As if you couldn't guess, we believe abstinence is a very narrow view. Sure, teach abstinence as part…

Working Hard

I've said it once, I'll say it a million times - my husband is a saint.He's in Maryland right now, at my mom's house, cleaning up about 40 years of stuff she has accumulated in the basement. Mom took his advice and got a dumpster,…

I know I am yet again stepping into Jinxhood…

But the kid has been getting himself up to pee for a few days in a row, and I feel like celebrating! For a while there, we were getting up and changing his bedding about every other night, or even every single night, from him…

How much bad luck can one family have?

Remember Rob, my Multimedia Director, who has been out since March 1st with pancreatitis? He is sitting in the hospital recovering from a major surgery that will hopefully be the last one and put him on the final road to recovery. But last night his…

Being Sick Makes Him Productive.

Here is just a sampling of the artwork Declan created today while home sick with me. My fave is in the top left, a map of the zoo, with the letters z-o-o (backwards).The other amazing thing he did today was bring me a drawing that…

Croup… yes, again.

The kid woke up with a whopping case of croup. This one is so bad I put him on the rescue medicine right away and I am staying home with him.I thought this shit was supposed to end in the Springtime???

What an odd child I have…

Jeff and Danielle gave Declan some jelly beans for Easter. This evening, he negotiated to have 5 of them after dinner. With every single one, he sucked them until there was nothing left except... well, jelly. And then he thought that part was gross so…