by Mir | Feb 24, 2009 | Health is overrated, My name is Grumplestiltskin
It’s been nearly four months since my daughter went vegetarian, and so far everyone is still alive. I would say our meat consumption as a family has gone down by about 50%, and my love of black beans has gone up about 500%. Chickadee appears to be having no...
by Mir | Feb 23, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Ottomatic For the People
So, um, I guess we are getting to be People Of A Certain Age. I realized this recently because: 1) A friend of mine told me her husband was getting a vasectomy, 2) The husband knew I knew, 3) I told MY husband, and 4) The next time we were all together my husband...
by Mir | Feb 22, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Yesterday I went on a cleaning tear, largely because I had one of those days last week when I looked around the house and realized that I couldn’t remember when we’d last cleaned, and also that there were tumbleweeds of carpet fuzz rolling past on the wood...
by Mir | Feb 19, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Ottomatic For the People
What I told Otto—and what I thought was the truth—was that if we replaced the kitchen table, then I could tolerate everything ELSE I want to change about the kitchen, a while longer. The truth is that the kitchen is probably the only room left that’s...
by Mir | Feb 18, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Someone asked me a few days ago if Monkey will ever outgrow his sensory issues, and I struggled to answer that coherently because yes, of course he will, and no, not really. Sensory sensitivities are the result of a somewhat differently-wired neurological system, and...
