by Mir | Jan 8, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Whoops! I really didn’t mean to leave a depressing post up here and then disappear, it’s just that I seem to have misplaced my Wednesday, somehow. Has anyone seen it? I’d sort of like it back. If it’s not too much trouble. My week has largely...
by Mir | Jan 6, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I haven’t talked about Chickadee’s friend Nightingale this year, because somehow they’ve gone from being BFFs to just plain having a terrible time with each other. Glee at being reunited after a long, hard summer quickly turned into Chickadee coming...
by Mir | Jan 5, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Dear Monkey, I have to tell you something. I have to tell you that I’m sorry; the timing of your birthday is less than ideal, for a number of reasons. Everyone is still away on vacation or just getting back and recovering. You often get gypped out of gifts by...
by Mir | Jan 3, 2009 | Woohoo!
Yesterday we drove home from New York. It’s a shorter drive than it was outbound, as going to Massachusetts requires both going further east and going through NYC in some way (we took the Bronx Expressway, which is always entertaining). But we did it in a single...
by Mir | Jan 1, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
We picked up the kids bright and early yesterday morning, and as we drove hundreds of miles through the snow with them quietly playing in the back seat, I felt better. I don’t do well with them away for more than a couple of days. I miss them. After a couple of...
