by Mir | Jan 4, 2020 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
First: Thank you all for the kind responses to my last post. It warms my cold, dead heart to know there are so many folks out there who were, in a way, walking along with me for so many years while we ushered my oldest through All The Scary Things all the way to...
by Mir | Dec 17, 2019 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
Would you believe that my first entry here on ye olde blog was written when my oldest was six years old, tiny and sassy and chirpy and endlessly chatty, and on Saturday that little bird of a girl graduated from college, tall and lovely and grown and measured and oh,...
by Mir | Nov 27, 2019 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", What do I do all day?
Hello, and happy cooking frenzy before Thanksgiving! Just to give you an idea of how I’m doing: a few minutes ago the husband and I were having a positively RIVETING conversation about how to reconfigure our dining room to fit the approximately eight billion...
by Mir | Oct 31, 2019 | Friends, Oh look! Something furry!!
Hello! A couple of people have asked and I didn’t want to leave anyone hanging after you were all so sweet about my jerkface of a dying dog. Duncan is indeed still with us–after the first couple of days home he started eating again (but picky-like, so now...
by Mir | Oct 24, 2019 | Health is overrated, Oh look! Something furry!!
So this is not a fun post, but I do promise one little funny bit before it ends, if you’ll hang in there with me. Okay? Okay. Six years ago we added Duncan to our family, and he has been an inordinate pain in our collective backsides ever since. He was older...
