by Mir | Mar 26, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
As the youngest and possibly most impulsive and least patient member of our family, I oftentimes wonder if Monkey feels like his entire life is just everyone telling him NO, over and over again. Some days, it feels like that’s all I do. Put your feet down and...
by Mir | Mar 24, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Things haven’t been going so well, over here at the Eyeball Corral. Oh, it’s true that Chickadee remains a champion contact lens WEARER. I don’t know if lenses are different now or her eyes are just a lot hardier than mine or what, but back in my...
by Mir | Mar 23, 2009 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I’m on a five-year plan towards actually growing enough food to cut down our grocery bill. Two years ago, I bought a house plant. Actually, I sent Otto out to buy me a house plant, because I’m also on a five-year plan to delegate more often. “If I...
by Mir | Mar 20, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today may just be the greatest day of my life. Ever. It’s been kind of a long week, ’round here, with the children being cranky and various meetings being… well, you know, the sorts of meetings where you’re sitting there, hour after hour,...
by Mir | Mar 19, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
When I was pregnant with Chickadee, I knew she was a girl. I told her father I knew she was a girl, and he would always tell me that I had a 50/50 shot at being correct, and after she was confirmed to be a girl via ultrasound he quipped that if I gave birth to four...
