by Mir | Jul 15, 2010 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We are more than halfway through the Summer of Pitching In, and have met with varying levels of success on that particular front. Someone—and I am not naming any names, but it is someone who lives here—has not been so much a fan of the whole “helping...
by Mir | Jul 14, 2010 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We try very hard to do a few special things with each kid when we have just one of them, so last night we took Monkey out for dinner to his favorite restaurant. What he likes best about it is that the nachos are not so much tortilla chips covered in cheese as they are...
by Mir | Jul 13, 2010 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I appreciate all of the commiseration on yesterday’s post. Misery truly does love company, and slogging through the tween/teen trenches is made a bit easier by knowing that many of you are dealing with similar issues. (Though I must say that my dad’s...
by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I meant to do another (final) installment of Otto Week, over the weekend, but I turned out to be too busy with my favorite boy-type people to get around to it. See, on Saturday Monkey came back, and on Sunday, Otto returned. Of course, Chickadee left on Saturday, so I...
by Mir | Jul 9, 2010 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Ottomatic For the People
Pardon the brief interruption. We now return you to our regularly-scheduled Otto Week. Sometimes I wonder if I do poke at Otto just a little too much. I mean, I love him to pieces, and I’m pretty sure he knows that, but I’m also just kind of a jerk,...
