by Mir | Dec 24, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
The cot did finally show up at the motel, which was awesome because the kids fell asleep right away. And then there couldn’t have been more than three separate incidents of people having loud conversations either out in the hallway or underneath our window...
by Mir | Dec 22, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Actually, we are not QUITE in Allentown, but we are close; and we are at a motel which rhymes with SUPERGREAT where I have paid an extra $10 for a cot for a certain small boy who would really like to go to bed, but the cot still isn’t here, because, well, things...
by Mir | Dec 21, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", The Year of Living Changerously
Today is Christmas. Yes. YES IT IS. Today is our little family Christmas, because tomorrow we get in the car for two days, and assuming that I allow the children to live until we get back up to New England, after that there will be the Big! Family! Christmas! and then...
by Mir | Dec 20, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We’ve had a very exciting morning, here, because we’ve been to our first awards ceremony. And it was something. The school the kids attend now have a student of the month type thing where one boy and one girl from each class are honored each month. They...
by Mir | Dec 19, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Last night was the kids’ holiday program at school. And by “holiday program,” I of course mean “Santa-centric Christmas show,” because this is the south and apparently here they don’t feel the need to so much as nod to Hanukkah or...
