by Mir | May 6, 2016 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
School is almost over (!!!) for the year, and my kids are deep in exams. The great state of Georgia (and most of the country, it seems) is eager to make sure that No Child Is Left Untested, so between SLOs and EOCTs (Student Learning Objectives and End of Course...
by Mir | May 4, 2016 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
This whole school year has blown by in about three seconds. While I think to myself, “Wow, this year is just ZOOMING by!” about 428 times a day, I must’ve randomly ALSO thought, “Wow, I haven’t been sick in a long time!” at some...
by Mir | Apr 26, 2016 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Did I mention that I—like every other person in the world who likes to cook and bake and who gets periodically sucked into food trends—made some sourdough starter a while back? I did, and now I have returned to that place where I don’t buy bread, I...
by Mir | Apr 25, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons & Diabetes, Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
This weekend I Planted All The Things and Baked All The Things and also managed to burn a spectacular burn across my arm in an impossible location while I was rotating the pans in the oven for this cake. I am talented! Now on my left arm, my tattoo is busy...
by Mir | Apr 20, 2016 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
In the ever-losing game of balancing out the time I spend with each kid so that neither assumes I love the other better—or both of them assume I love the other better, but I feel pretty confident that they are being ridiculous drama llamas—I was thrilled...
