Aimee’s Random Thoughts

05 September 2007

Tragedy in our Community

Bad things happen. All the time. But, those bad things (fortunately) don't always have a direct impact on your life or in your community. But sometimes they do.

Monday night a young father & his son from this community were killed in a plane crash. His wife is a kindergarten teacher at Xavier's school. The boy who was killed was a fourth grader at Max's school. The grandma & grandpa were very active in our church for a number of years. It's a sad, sad time as they struggle to make sense of this tragedy.

Bryan wrote a beautiful post about it. You can read it here.

You can read the latest news story here.

Please keep the Hutchinsons in your prayers. And, please remember to show your love to your family because you never know how much longer you will have them with you.

Labels: prayer, tragedy

posted by Aimee @ 9:44 AM 1 comments

08 August 2006

The story of the Dead Bird

OK, this isn't what I planned for my first blog post to be about, but Blogger will only let you write 150 characters in response to their crazy question. (See my complete profile if you're confused.) Anyway, 150 characters is not nearly enough to explain the complexity of the whole experience of bringing a dead bird to school in the third grade. So, here's the rest of the story...
I found a dead, frozen bird when I was walking to school one time in third grade. I kept it on my desk all day (even made it stand up to say the Pledge of Allegiance) because I was certain that it wasn't dead - it was just too cold to move. But, alas, my classroom wasn't warm enough to thaw the bird. I wrapped my poor bird in my scarf to bring home at the end of the school day. I don't remember what happened to the bird (most likely my Dad pitched it in the trash) but to this day I am amazed and thankful that my third grade teacher was sensitive to my heart. She asked me why I had the bird that day, and after I explained I was thawing the bird so she could fly again, my teacher, Mrs. Brown, never said one more word about that crazy dead bird on my desk. I know there are issues with germs and all that, but Mrs. Brown understood that childhood innocence, faith, hope and curiosity were much more important than adult concerns that day. I hope & pray that I can be that kind of adult.

Labels: friends, kids, life of a mom, tragedy

posted by Aimee @ 2:24 PM 0 comments

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Name: Aimee
Home: Lima, Ohio, United States
About Me: I own and run 123 Design Studio, a custom web and graphic design studio. I am mother to four wonderful boys: Max, age 10, Xavier, age 7, Eli, age 3, and Toby, age 1. Bryan & I have been married for 18 (mostly wonderful LOL) years. I eat excessive amounts of sugar and laugh inappropriately.
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