by Mir | Sep 12, 2004 | Friends
Apropos of nothing, I am sitting here thinking about my favorite insults from friends. The incidence of people referring to me as “hussy” has increased exponentially since my divorce. Not because I actually am a hussy (alas!), but because the ex’s...
by Mir | Sep 11, 2004 | Detritus
Three years ago today, I forgot to do a “first day of school” picture of Chickadee before taking her in to meet her new teacher. She bounced off to her first day of preschool with hardly a backwards glance. Monkey had to be peeled off my leg amidst...
by Mir | Sep 10, 2004 | Detritus
Hold me. There is a swarm of little girls playing out a very complicated scenario at the dollhouse. There is giggling, and sometimes whining, and often yelling. Fortunately, I am deterred from intervening much by this 38-pound weight that has attached itself to my...
by Mir | Sep 10, 2004 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Chickadee will be getting off the bus in about ten minutes. Last week, she stayed to play with the neighbors for an hour one day after school. So of course we have to reciprocate. I invited the girls to come here, today. Have I mentioned that these neighbors have twin...
by Mir | Sep 9, 2004 | Health is overrated
Meet my new boyfriend. Isn’t he dreamy? I just love a man in tights, with a really oversized square chin, and a life-size tube of eczema ointment. Oh yeah, baby. I’ve just been over at the Elidel website and have learned that I am oh-so-wrong, it is not...
