by Mir | Dec 21, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", The Year of Living Changerously
Today is Christmas. Yes. YES IT IS. Today is our little family Christmas, because tomorrow we get in the car for two days, and assuming that I allow the children to live until we get back up to New England, after that there will be the Big! Family! Christmas! and then...
by Mir | Dec 20, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We’ve had a very exciting morning, here, because we’ve been to our first awards ceremony. And it was something. The school the kids attend now have a student of the month type thing where one boy and one girl from each class are honored each month. They...
by Mir | Dec 19, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Last night was the kids’ holiday program at school. And by “holiday program,” I of course mean “Santa-centric Christmas show,” because this is the south and apparently here they don’t feel the need to so much as nod to Hanukkah or...
by Mir | Dec 18, 2007 | Health is overrated, Job? Huh?
Today I am busy bemoaning the fact that I am sick (it was just a little cold until I wrote about it yesterday, at which point the fickle hand of fate gave me a mighty FLICK towards it being something much stronger and yuckier), and this morning after I got the kids...
by Mir | Dec 17, 2007 | Ottomatic For the People, What do I do all day?
Did I mention that I have a cold? Because I do. I think I’m dying. It is very sad. I will miss me. (Do you hear them? In the background? Those are teeny tiny violins, playing beautiful music in honor of my sore throat and reversion to 5-year-old maturity level...
