Pictured above is my seventeen-year-old niece, Jaycie, and the crocheted Grumpy Cat I made for her. Also, I made the blanket that’s in her lap, but it wasn’t nearly as popular as the cat. This…
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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The Robots & Burgers Edition
Sleep and I are not on speaking terms lately. The rat bastard had mostly abandoned me for the past two weeks due to lack-of-work anxiety and when it finally came back for a visit, bam…
October 25, a day more sweet than bitter
I remember where I was on October 25, 1998. I was babysitting my one-year-old niece Jaycie while Sister #2 labored away giving birth to my nephew Maxwell. When we got that call that he was…
October 25
Today is my nephew Maxwell’s birthday. He’s 13 now, and navigating that prickly, hormone-filled line known as adolescence. He’s become the kind of kid who loves Sasquatch, playing Minecraft, Internet memes, and quoting Monty Python….
Somebody’s baby
Since today was Liam’s last day at Aunt Jodi’s Supergenius Daycare (a new nanny starts Monday), we decided to do it up big. There were slushies and cheese curds and lots of Ziggy playing and…