by Mir | Jan 22, 2020 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
It’s a weird thing, having everyone back at home again. And not just because I will periodically look around and yell “Who ARE all you people? Don’t you have adult lives to pursue elsewhere??” There’s some driveway Jenga to be done with...
by Mir | Jan 11, 2020 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", What do I do all day?
I just went back in my archives to see if I ever wrote about getting a new car a few years back, and apparently I did not. It was Chickadee’s senior year of high school, and there was a lot of other stuff going on, and also I vaguely remember my ex making a...
by Mir | Jan 4, 2020 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
First: Thank you all for the kind responses to my last post. It warms my cold, dead heart to know there are so many folks out there who were, in a way, walking along with me for so many years while we ushered my oldest through All The Scary Things all the way to...
by Mir | Dec 17, 2019 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
Would you believe that my first entry here on ye olde blog was written when my oldest was six years old, tiny and sassy and chirpy and endlessly chatty, and on Saturday that little bird of a girl graduated from college, tall and lovely and grown and measured and oh,...
by Mir | Nov 27, 2019 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", What do I do all day?
Hello, and happy cooking frenzy before Thanksgiving! Just to give you an idea of how I’m doing: a few minutes ago the husband and I were having a positively RIVETING conversation about how to reconfigure our dining room to fit the approximately eight billion...
