Did you hear? Aiming Low won a Bloggie award for Best New Weblog. I KNOW! We’re totally psyched about it, too. But way more important than the happy dancing we’ve been doing and the sparkly confetti all over the floor and the purple unicorns we rented to celebrate this awesometastical honor, is the GREAT BIG [...]
Exactly three months and two days ago our dear friend and Aiming Low head whipcracker, Anissa Mayhew, had a massive stroke. It was November 17th. For three months Anissa has continued to defy the odds with her awe-inspiring strength and will. This is especially meaningful when you consider that the doctors weren’t sure Anissa would [...]
Okay, so on Christmas eve, a friend of mine was over helping me wrap presents and when we get to the sock monkey intended for my daughter, he tells me that it has a mouth on it’s ass. I repeat…A MOUTH ON ITS ASS. THE HELL? What are you babbling about, I ask him? Are [...]
To say that I strive to avoid most of life’s little unpleasantries would be an understatement. That doesn’t mean I don’t WANT you to know that your BO is unbearable. Or that your Darth Vader-like breathing makes me insane. Or that I hate you. It just means I’d rather not TELL you…you know, to your [...]
First. Before anything else. Thank you. THANK YOU. It isn’t a post we ever wanted to write. It isn’t a post we know how to write. No words seem strong enough. The support, the love, then generosity you have shown our dear friend, our sister, YOUR sister, Anissa, and her family, has been amazing. Laughing [...]
For the most current updates on Anissa’s progress, please check her first blog, Hope 4 Peyton. Her husband will be updating regularly. ••• As you may have heard, Anissa, our beloved friend and leader here at Aiming Low, suffered a massive stroke on Tuesday afternoon. She is in the hospital right now, in the ICU. [...]
When we moved into this house, there were three of us and one was still in diapers. Buying an overpriced 2/1 in the city seemed like a perfectly NOT stupid idea. Well, another potty-trained kid later, I’m thinking it was the stupidest thing I EVER lobbied for in my life. We’re cramped, property values have [...]
My stepmom recently left a copy of US magazine at my house. I usually reserve my celebrity catch-up reading for the doctor’s office, but having recently given birth, I was very compelled to read about how celeb moms are under such pressure to lose their baby weight and of course, all about their personal dramas [...]
You know, I may aim low in many parts of my life—okay, pretty much ALL of them—but one thing I aim NOT to do is take shortcuts that hurt other people. Or make their heads feel explode-y. I also aim to use less hyphens. And caps. And maybe ellipses, too. Anyway, it would appear that [...]
Sometimes, when I find myself in a difficult situation, I ask myself, “Self, what would Amy Lo do?” Amy, in case you don’t know, is the mascot AND patron saint of Aiming Low. She is truly the source of all unorthodox wisdom and crafty girl-knowledge and this is my story of how Amy came through [...]
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