Woulda Coulda Shoulda

A funny thing happened on the way to the courthouse

Mir — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:38:51 +0000

I am not really sure how to tell this, so I guess I’ll start back at the beginning. The first thing you need to know is that when my dad and stepmom decided to get married on our trip, they were thinking we would all just go to the Grand Canyon and then we’d find [...]

Hold that thought

Mir — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:15:05 +0000

I have many, many things to tell you about yesterday. The whole family has been getting in on the action, too—suggesting post titles, pointing out this thing or that which I simply must remember to include in the details—but it will have to wait one more day. I’m sorry to be a tease; circumstances beyond [...]

Wait, what time is it??

Mir — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:11:57 +0000

I am a great big giant baby when it comes to jetlag. This is, of course, because I am a delicate flower in general, and when you take a delicate flower and plunk her down someplace where time is magically 3 hours different, no amount of “oh, there’s no such thing as jetlag going west!” [...]

Endings, beginnings, elusive middles

Mir — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:33:01 +0000

It seems like I should have more to say about the end of middle school, but I’ve been a little too verklempt to manage it. [Talk amongst yourselves! Here, I'll give you a topic: Attendance awards; universally annoying or only to bitter parents of chronically ill children who feel like other kids getting medals and [...]

Looks like we made it…

Mir — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:56 +0000

It turns out there’s nothing quite like living the one-day-at-a-time-at-the-hospital life to make you REALLY excited about middle school graduation. Part of me still can’t believe this almost didn’t happen, and the other part is afraid to breathe, just in case I’m asleep. Today is a good day.

Here, let me Google that for you

Mir — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:09:33 +0000

Sometimes, having a record of our lives is awesome. Every now and then I will go back and read something in my archives and be AMAZED, because I’d completely forgotten said event until reading about it and reawakening that memory. I’m constantly grateful for that when it comes to the day-to-day marvels of raising small [...]

Slow and steady

Mir — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:24:12 +0000

Otto never tires of telling people the joke about how it was an easy decision for us to have a small, family-only wedding ceremony without all of the traditional hoopla. “We’ve both already been to the wedding where she wore the big white dress,” he’ll deadpan, then sit back and wait for that to sink [...]

Foiled again

Mir — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:50:38 +0000

Once upon a time, on a day when I brought Mario home to our house after school, the boys played and played and played some more, and when Mario’s dad came to pick him up, he said, “Hey, we’re going to Crazy’s for dinner tonight, y’all want to come?” [Crazy's is not really the name [...]

Me dress pretty someday

Mir — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:52:49 +0000

I am fresh out of magical solutions to the recent Year Of Continuing Suckage, so I did what any red-blooded American female with a weakness for cute shoes would do: I spent a couple of weeks dressing up to see if it helped me feel better. Read all about it over at Off Our Chests, [...]

More of the same

Mir — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:19:10 +0000

I lamented to Otto this morning that “I don’t have anything interesting to write about!” Otto—deeply embroiled in the home stretch of grading and finishing up the semester—gave me several suggestions of guffaw-worthy student gaffes, none of which I’m actually going to share. That’s mostly because they’re not my stories, but also because I don’t [...]