by Mir | Oct 8, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Retail Therapy
Chickadee and I have been talking about working on a jigsaw puzzle together as sort of our special girl time project. For whatever reason she doesn’t consider all of the things we do together on any given day to count as special time, things like cooking or...
by Mir | Oct 6, 2007 | The Year of Living Changerously
We have been taping Mythbusters every week and watching it as a family on Friday nights, but there hasn’t been a new episode in a while so we’ve had to come up with another activity to celebrate making it through the week. Thus began a brief period of...
by Mir | Oct 5, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
As long-time readers already know—mostly because I have yammered about it for months and will not SHUT UP ALREADY—one of the things that drew us to this house is the fact that it has an enormous deck complete with a gazebo. Now that it is no longer 110...
by Mir | Oct 4, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
I am already struck with a strong urge to crawl back into bed, which I’m taking as a very bad sign indeed, seeing as how that usually doesn’t happen until closer to lunch time. Not even a bowl of grits with bacon salt (bacon salt, oh how I love thee) has...
by Mir | Oct 3, 2007 | The Year of Living Changerously
It must be Fall because it’s dark when my alarm goes off and dark when I wake the kids up and dark while I pack lunches but almost sorta kinda getting light out when it’s time to leave for school. It must be Fall because the yard is covered with fallen...
