We have a somewhat busy day today. First of all, it's Elliott's birthday. He turned 13 years old over night but we actually celebrated last night. Happy birthday Elliott... We love so much and couldn't possibly be any prouder of who you are. ☺ We were originally looking at a possible snowday and that would have been cool, but it would have also complicated things today as well. Seriously though, who wouldn't want to have a snowday on their birthday. 😉 The reason it would have complicated things is because I have to get Lizze to the Cleveland Clinic this afternoon. If they'd had a snowday, it would have turned into a family trip. That's wouldn't have been good for anyone. As we get this week off to a start,…

I'm feeling a bit frustrated this morning. If you follow me on Twitter, (if not you probably should 😉) you may have already seen my little rant/purge this morning. I thought I would explain my frustration here because it's easier than doing so in 280 characters. While I don't often talk about this, I've built up a decent following over the years. I'm verified on both Twitter and Facebook (which isn't easy) with much larger followings than the average person. I only say this to provide some context for this post. I've worked very hard to build this platform and I do my very best to use it for the betterment of the community as a whole. At the same time, it's also my job and because I'm a work…

Shortly after my last post, Gavin came running down the stairs to let me know that he thinks we caught another squirrel in the attic. I checked the camera and he was right. The trap hadn't even been baited and set for even hour before we caught this one. As I removed the trap, there was at least one more running around. Gavin and I went to release it before I dropped him back off at home and picked up the boys from school. I didn't have time to re-set the trap in order to try and catch the rest. I'll do that when I get home. Hopefully, I'll catch at least one more before we pull the trap for the day. We don't like to leave it up at…

We had a pretty good weekend. I mean, we had our moments but all things considered, it was pretty good. The most exciting thing to go on this weekend was trapping squirrels in our attic. There were a few meltdowns and I some less than stellar parenting moments but we survived. Lizze is unfortunately, dealing with the return of her migraine. It's not as bad as it was previously but it's worse than it was after her headache infusions. We're waiting to see if her prescription for the Cefaly device is covered by insurance. We have the preventative one but Lizze needs the one that acutely treats the migraine she currently has. All the paperwork has been submitted. In fact it was all submitted while I was waiting for Lizze…

If you recall last summer, we had an issue with racoons in out attic. When we took the storm damage to our house, a few months ago, that sorta solved the issue with the racoons because the only way they could enter the attic was removed. Insurance covered most of the repairs and while there was still a mess inside the attic to contend with, the racoons were gone. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of it. We now have squirrels in our attic. Apparently, the window in the back room of the attic has blown out. The entire window needs replaced and I mean removed from the wall and a whole new window installed. That's how the squirrels are getting in. We never go into the attic and we never…