by Mir | Aug 24, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Retail Therapy, What do I do all day?
I spent last week in a grudging state of malingering. Malingerment? Whatever. I was not SICK sick, you understand. I was not so ill that I could take to my bed without guilt, but I had a cold (THANKS, KIDS!) and just didn’t feel 100%. I got up in the morning and...
by Mir | Aug 21, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We are all trying to get settled into the school routine now that we’re back to it, and it’s been long enough that it’s not feeling new, but short enough that we’re still sort of hoping it might be a mistake and it’s still summer....
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...
