by Mir | Feb 2, 2008 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today we went on a wild, day-long adventure, which included going panning for gold. As we stood clustered around a trough, each swishing around our pans, Monkey jabbered a mile a minute and Chickadee complained a couple of times that the water was too cold, but in the...
by Mir | Feb 1, 2008 | What do I do all day?
My father and stepmom go on a lot of really exciting vacations, you know. They’ve been to Africa on safari. Alaska. The Great Wall of China. The Mayan ruins. All sorts of places I may never get to go, but always each trip more exotic than the last. (They tell me...
by Mir | Jan 31, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Over the Christmas break we had planned for our little family to spend a few days with my parents before heading home again. As it turned out, Otto and I ended up going to see my folks without the kids, which was sorely disappointing all around. (It turns out that I...
by Mir | Jan 30, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
I have just a few things I need to take care of today. I have work, cleaning, work, an interview, work, laundry, work, errands, and, OH YEAH, work. So I decided to make soup. You know, because I wasn’t busy. There is something primal, to me, about throwing...
by Mir | Jan 29, 2008 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
I think I’ve mentioned before that at some point I became overwhelmed with this weird THING that compelled me to sign up for a committee in the name of bettering our schools. (Oh… right. I think that THING may be “a sense of parental and civic...
