by Mir | Mar 17, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Like most parents I know, I was an infinitely better mother before I actually had children. I was a career babysitter as a teen, and a nanny as a young adult. If there was one thing I KNEW, it was how to handle kids. So naturally I was going to be completely awesome...
by Mir | Mar 16, 2010 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Long ago when I imagined my future children, I pictured raven-haired curlytops full of laughter. I did not, as it turns out, imagine that my curly hair would be the exception rather than the rule, or that the sheer level of DRAMA and ANGST associated with the...
by Mir | Mar 15, 2010 | I'm dating the television, It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
This past week was Spring Break, here in the land of Start School Halfway Through The Summer And Then Finish When Everyone Else Still Has A Month To Go, and that of course meant that the kids went off to visit their dad while Otto and I spent the week in Bacchanalian...
by Mir | Mar 12, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Oh, we have a big day planned, here. We’re going to Trader Joe’s! AND Ikea! The level of happy this gives me is a testament to exactly how boring my life has become. And yet I do not care, because I need a big container for Legos and some frozen salmon...
by Mir | Mar 11, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Up until just a few years ago, my black thumb was legendary. You name the plant, I could kill it. Not intentionally—never intentionally—yet somehow my efforts to nurture growing things were met with grim, black death. (I have killed cacti, people. Do you...
