Three and a half years ago, I decided to get a dog. Well, actually I didn’t just get a dog, I got a puppy. I had a void in my life that I believed was shaped exactly like a ten week old Bichon Frise puppy. Scott thought it was a good idea, which was all [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Moving on outweighs the costs
by Amy on 19. Feb, 2010 in Food, My Every Day
Two weeks ago, I dropped my kitchen scale, one of my most valued tools in the kitchen, and it seems to be broken. At the time, I was in a terribly good mood, which is the only reason at the time it didn’t seem like such a big deal. “I’ll look at it,” Scott told [...]
The Importance of Getting Away
by Amy on 15. Feb, 2010 in My Every Day
Before Sophie was born all of the pregnancy magazines told me to take a babymoon, a word that I can’t even believe I just typed in a sentence. For me, it falls in that gag me with a spoon category, a really, really big scratchy, wooden, lame 80s reference spoon. If I hadn’t spent most [...]
Lost Career: Reward if Found
by Amy on 07. Feb, 2010 in My Every Day
Somewhere along the way, I lost my career. It wasn’t in as dramatic a fashion as say, a professional athlete suffering a career-ending injury that forces him to sell the Bentley and start selling life insurance or used cars. I had an accidental career, one I had stumbled into out of desperation yet one I [...]
Momspotting Meme
by Amy on 01. Feb, 2010 in My Every Day
For the past few months, I’ve been participating in BlogHer’s Family Connections citizen journalism project as a Momspotter. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the #momspotting hashtags. Basically that means I tweet a few times a day about how I use technology in my day-to-day parenting life. What better way to start [...]
