by Mir | Jan 5, 2012 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Because I am in desperate need of something cheerful this evening, I give you the intersection of my son’s delight and my husband’s penchant for documenting everything: (It was a Most Excellent birthday, bananas and all.)
by Mir | Jan 4, 2012 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
My current earworm: Because, yes, today my Monkey is (sing it with me!) 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12! (Remember when they only ever counted up to 12 on Sesame Street? It was like numbers higher than that just didn’t matter, or even exist.) Today we have to start...
by Mir | Jan 3, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Hey, let’s all pretend this is the first day of the rest of our lives in a somehow more important way than every other day is the first day of the rest of our lives. Okay? Okay! (Probably we should’ve done this on Sunday—the Actual First Day Of The...
by Mir | Jan 2, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Is there anything better than arriving home after a trip and collapsing into your own bed? I contend that there is not. Especially if you’ve just driven 900+ miles in a single day and haven’t yet realized that following that delicious night of sleep in...
by Mir | Dec 30, 2011 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Thank you all for the well-wishes for my mother-in-law. She had surgery and they were able to insert a rod into the bone to repair it, and it is around about this point in the story when Monkey puts his hands over his ears and says “YOU CAN STOP TALKING ABOUT...
