by Mir | Aug 18, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Job? Huh?
I spent all summer avoiding thinking about work, and now summer is over and I have to be an adult again. Being an adult is highly overrated. It turns out that if you’re trying to shepherd a couple of kids toward adulthood, though, you kind of have to have a...
by Mir | Aug 11, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
There were a few things different, this year, as we tried to corral the kids for pictures and they rolled their eyes and bickered and insisted they were just plain over it. For one thing, even in wedges, and even on her tiptoes, Chickadee can no longer even pretend to...
by Mir | Aug 10, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!
I remember when preparing the kids for the start of school was practically an Olympic event. You’d get the list of school supplies and head off to your local Big Box store to buy your assigned allotment of glue sticks and whiteboard pens, and if you were...
by Mir | Aug 6, 2015 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
There will always be an element, for me, of “why in the world would you assume I have any idea?” even when I am being paid to dispense advice. The technical term for this is “Imposter Syndrome.” The Mir term for this is “just being my...
by Mir | Aug 4, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Retail Therapy
I don’t know if you know this, but APPARENTLY simply refusing to think about the realities of having a child applying to college/graduating/getting out of Dodge doesn’t stop it from happening. We are gearing up to start Chickadee’s senior year and I...
