by Mir | Mar 27, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I’m having one of those overwhelmed-with-work kinds of days, and the children have been remarkably patient with me. Thank goodness. Though this does mean that there has been various silliness at the door of my office. Chickadee: [while pantomiming being stuck in...
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,...
