by Mir | Jun 10, 2010 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I know I said yesterday that this cruise would be a lot more fun without the kids—and that’s true in many ways—but the other truth is that it’s not that it would be more FUN so much as it would be less COMPLEX. Having kids makes it more...
by Mir | Jun 9, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So yesterday was our adventure to “stingray city,” and it was definitely unlike anything we’ve ever done before. I’m going to back up a minute here, though, and say something that probably makes me a lousy mother, and maybe even a lousy person,...
by Mir | Jun 8, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
My father tried to warn me about the food. I mean, I know that eating is a central part of cruising, just from talking to people. But GOOD LORD. I expect my children to each be five pounds heavier at the end of the week. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing,...
by Mir | Jun 7, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Woohoo!
Why yes, I am blogging from the middle of the ocean. I have to purchase some Internet time here on the ship at the luxury rate of about a bajillion dollars a minute so that I can do a little work, so I figured in for a penny, in for a pound—you get a piece of...
by Mir | Jun 5, 2010 | Oh look! Something furry!!
We flew to Miami today; tomorrow we’ll board the cruise ship, and I predict Chickadee will be hurled overboard by Wednesday at the latest. (Um, did I mention she’s on her second course of Prednisone? Hell hath no fury like an itchy tween on steroids....