by Mir | May 21, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I am a great big giant baby when it comes to jetlag. This is, of course, because I am a delicate flower in general, and when you take a delicate flower and plunk her down someplace where time is magically 3 hours different, no amount of “oh, there’s no...
by Mir | May 18, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
It seems like I should have more to say about the end of middle school, but I’ve been a little too verklempt to manage it. [Talk amongst yourselves! Here, I’ll give you a topic: Attendance awards; universally annoying or only to bitter parents of...
by Mir | May 16, 2012 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
It turns out there’s nothing quite like living the one-day-at-a-time-at-the-hospital life to make you REALLY excited about middle school graduation. Part of me still can’t believe this almost didn’t happen, and the other part is afraid to breathe,...
by Mir | May 15, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Sometimes, having a record of our lives is awesome. Every now and then I will go back and read something in my archives and be AMAZED, because I’d completely forgotten said event until reading about it and reawakening that memory. I’m constantly grateful...
by Mir | May 11, 2012 | Ottomatic For the People, Woohoo!
Otto never tires of telling people the joke about how it was an easy decision for us to have a small, family-only wedding ceremony without all of the traditional hoopla. “We’ve both already been to the wedding where she wore the big white dress,”...