AmyD. | December 1, 2009
A year ago today I was trapped in a hospital room watching my son recover from Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection. Horrific, excruciating, and painful are all understatements. Mike stayed as long as he could before taking our girls home and leaving me down at UCLA with Ethan. In the room I kept a brave face, [...]
AmyD. | September 21, 2009
I keep logging in here to write a new post and I lose steam rapidly every time. This blog used to feel like home to me, like a second skin. Sure, I didn’t let out every lurid detail, but it was my place. Over the last year it has become less so for all sorts [...]
AmyD. | August 25, 2009
Yesterday, duh, was the first day of school. In case you don’t know or don’t recall, I have one in kindergarten, a freshman in high school, and a senior in high school. It’s the parental version of a schizophrenic nightmare. The last week of summer was beyond insane. A trip to Newport Beach, CA for [...]
AmyD. | July 20, 2009
Ethan has waited a very long time to create his own adversary. He got Medal of Honor and he tried to teach Kate to play it, hoping she would be as good as he was and give him a challenge. But, Kate wasn’t fond of it. So Ethan waited for Maggie’s coordination to develop. Then [...]
AmyD. | July 11, 2009
So what am I averaging now? One post a month? Two maybe? Time flies when you’re doing life stuff, man. What can I say? 4th of July came and went, we’ve been entertaining at home almost constantly. When you cook the way we do and can put out the caliber of food that Mike can [...]
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