by Mir | Nov 19, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
In an interesting the-universe-has-a-weird-sense-of-humor turn of events, I received a fairly heartbreaking question for my Alpha Mom column on the same day that Chickadee received her first college acceptance. (This is the school she’ll attend, but not her only...
by Mir | Nov 17, 2015 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I realized I may have—in my attempts to be privacy-shielding and vague—accidentally left the impression that the sky was falling with that last post. And no, I wasn’t smart enough to figure it out on my own; rather, after a bunch of concerned emails...
by Mir | Nov 11, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Everything is fine. In the grand scheme, that is. Everyone’s basically okay, there’s nothing here we can’t handle, and yet… it’s been a hard week or two for various reasons. I’m finding that the interesting thing about being a...
by Mir | Nov 5, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So my folks were here visiting for a bit, did I mention that? My father checked the blog one morning and then said, “Your readers aren’t going to like us.” “Huh?” I said, because I’m eloquent and stuff. “When we’re here...
by Mir | Nov 3, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
For some reason, we don’t really get trick-or-treaters at our house. This means I buy a bunch of candy “just in case” and then no one comes and then a month later I wonder why I’m fat. It’s a mystery! I wonder if I’ll ever solve it!...
