by Mir | Apr 18, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I gave Chickadee one of these for her birthday today, and she promptly ran off and shot several feature films destined to be blockbusters. That’s because for the third day in a row, school continues to be underwater closed. Chickadee was kind enough to allow her...
by Mir | Apr 17, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Tonight I made two dozen cupcakes with PINK frosting, because it HAS to be PINK, and no, it could not be the convenient can of STRAWBERRY frosting, it needs to be BUTTERCREAM. Pink buttercream. With sprinkles. Flower-shaped sprinkles. The cupcakes in question are for...
by Mir | Apr 16, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Tonight the kids and I finished reading Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wind in the Door (the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time). In the final chapters, our protagonists are fighting Evil itself. The life of young Charles Wallace hangs in the balance, but so too does the...
by Mir | Apr 15, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Well. It’s clear from that last post that you are all dying to see what a complete dork I was as a child. You’d think that the various and myriad demonstrations here of my dorkitude as an adult would be enough, but no. You people always want more. And I...
by Mir | Apr 14, 2007 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
At dinner tonight the kids asked if I have any pictures of myself from when I was little. I was impressed by their maturity, you know, because there was a time not too long ago when both of them would’ve insisted I sprung from a pod as a full-grown mother, never...
