by Mir | Mar 3, 2016 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Monkey—sweet, darling Monkey—has changed SO MUCH over the last few years that sometimes I forget about the things which haven’t changed. Like, say, the fact that he now towers over me does not change the typical trajectory of: it’s a minor...
by Mir | Feb 29, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons & Diabetes
I can’t remember when I first made these cinnamon rolls, or how they became the Holy Grail of baked goods in our house, but what I CAN tell you is that Monkey asks for these for his birthday instead of cake. (Chickie usually asks for both cinnamon rolls AND...
by Mir | Feb 24, 2016 | What do I do all day?
I called my dad from the car today—both because my ridiculous new car makes it easy and because who has time for an actual phone call with words unless it’s en route to someplace?—and he told me that he is really enjoying the Nerd Night posts, and...
by Mir | Feb 22, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons & Diabetes
It was a long week, last week, and even kind of a long weekend, as Monkey ended up at an Academic Team competition that we knew would be “all day” but hadn’t entirely grokked would be an 8:30 – 6:30 kind of all day. (That is a long day even if...
by Mir | Feb 16, 2016 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Somehow I never linked you up to my Alpha Mom advice column last week, probably because I was busy dealing with non-writing things as if I actually have a life outside of the computer. HAHA. Anyway. That’s the bad news. The good news is that today you get a...
