Author: Aimee

Story from the park yesterday…

Bryan took Declan to the park yesterday... As Dex was playing, Bryan struck up a conversation with a mom there and they started talking about Declan's school (which mixes special needs and non-special needs kids). Bryan told the mom that one of the things he…

Speaking of the Basement…

I am so glad we worked so hard in August to finish off the basement (OK, well... truthfully we hired people to help... but, yes, we did a buttload of the work ourselves too!). We essentially doubled the size of our house and now we…

Hide & Seek

I love how kids think about things. No rules. No borders. They push the envelope every single day.Declan and I were playing hide and seek down in the basement tonight. Just the two of us. We went back and forth a few times... me finding…

I got him out the door!

Bryan will not take time for himself. Ever! I have been bugging him for months to start going out and doing whatever he wanted. Bryan time.We finally settled that he would try to take Tuesday nights to do something (since I take Thursday nights for…

Happy Birthday, Aunt Heidi!

What I really should have been doing, instead of getting all doom and gloom like I did below, was wishing my Aunt Heidi a very happy birthday!HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, TOOTSIE ROLL!Heidi is like a second mom to me (as well as being my mom's…

Revelations

You thought I was going to talk about religion. Ha! No way.A good friend of mine received some interesting news from her family today, and while she is still processing it - she asked if I ever had a big "revelation" in my family.I immediately…

Diabetes Checkup

Met with a new diabetes doctor this morning - my old one is closing her private practice (sniff sniff). I liked the new doc, although her main push was to get me exercising 4-5 times a week at least. What an evil bitch.Just kidding. Surprisingly,…