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Disasters
My oldest kid had a strange homework assignment the other day: ask your parent about a natural disaster that they have experienced. My first thought was that I hadn’t lived through any natural disasters, but upon reflection I realized that I have. After recounting all these incidents to my oldest child, he sighed and said,
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MD + RR + PL
We’re coming up on Memorial Day Weekend here. The city empties out considerably on those long summer weekends. Now that we are cabin owners, we haven’t spent a summer holiday weekend in the Cities in a long time. I actually kind of miss the empty sidewalks and restaurants, and the feeling that we were on
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In which I continue to wonder if it’s undiagnosed autism or just my personality.
Ugh, I am so nervous about our upcoming trip to Japan. It doesn’t help that we just have too much going on in June anyway. And the fact that we’re going to own exactly three properties while we’re on the other side of the world–oh, and two of those properties will be empty while we’re
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Coworkers are the best
I went into work with off-the-charts anxiety the other day due to some medical issues and weird test results with one of my kids (since resolved). I’m a hypochondriac and struggle to tolerate medical complications and emergencies, and it’s about 1,000x worse when it has anything to do with a child. I told my lead