by Mir | Oct 30, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I feel like I’ve been writing about the kids a lot recently… like, more than usual. It’s almost as though this is… I don’t know… some sort of mommy blog or something. Huh. On the one hand, I know. I KNOW. They are amazing and...
by Mir | Oct 29, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
It’s not that I’m not a fan of the Red Sox, because OF COURSE I am a fan of the Red Sox. I find that down here in the south I am even MORE of a fan of the Red Sox because it rather feels like more of my identity is hinging on it, somehow; and so this has...
by Mir | Oct 27, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Chickadee was invited to a (co-ed, if it matters) birthday party for today. Said party was taking place at a local campground. Because it was a camp-out. Now, I will fully acknowledge that I am an over-protective mama, but I found this very, very weird. I don’t...
by Mir | Oct 26, 2007 | Ottomatic For the People, The Year of Living Changerously
When Otto and I got married, he was a 36-year-old bachelor. He’d never been married, never lived with a woman. People would elbow me and cast meaningful glances in his direction while joking about how it would take me a while to “train him” (as if he...
by Mir | Oct 25, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So guess what I did this morning! Go on, GUESS! I put on a sweater. Because I was COLD. Which is sort of newsworthy in and of itself, I suppose (it’s official: my blood has thinned), but that’s not what I wanted to tell you. No, actually what I was...