The Miller Family

Category: Family Life

  • What? A pain.

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    Something’s going around our watercooler channel on Slack at work about chocolate croissants. I’ve not weighed in yet. I’m still new there. When the kids were little, these delights were one of their primary sources of nutrition. You couldn’t see the floormats in the backseat for all the golden flakes left there by my little…

  • Mmm, Paella

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    Raquel’s family came by on Saturday night, and her mom brought along everything needed for Paella. I was checking cookbooks, trying to figure out what exact ingredients and quantities but it seems making Paella isn’t a quantitative endeavour. No measuring cups were soiled in the process. The grill was heated til it was hot enough,…

  • To Megan on her initiation into Alpha Phi

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    Parents were asked to write a note to their daughter to be read at the new initiates’ presentation. Her Big Sister, Elena Ortiz, did a wonderful job of reading it yesterday. When you were just a fresh little babyWe hoped you’d grow up big and smart, maybeBathing you nightly and dressing you brightlyRaising you well,…

  • Peace descends on the Miller family home

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    I was going over our phone bill the other day, and considered for a moment what we were getting for our $50/month contribution to AT&T for our home phone service.  I realized we were essentially paying for the benefit of a relentless onslaught of telemarketers and pollsters intruding on what precious little time I get…

  • Don’t deny me internet

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    I’ve spent several hours this weekend trying to fix the internet. No, not fixing the Internet, like fomenting twitter protests against Google’s disregard of my privacy settings in Safari nor fighting moronic legislation like SOPA.  I just needed to get the bits flowing into and out of the house. Around the Miller household, access to…

  • Scariest thing invades our house

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    The kids were still awake when I went to bed last night. Before my head hit the pillow, I heard a shriek down the hall. I jumped out of bed to see what was the problem. The girls were trapped down at the far end of the hallway, unable to get down the stairs to…

  • Watch out where you aim that thing

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    I just removed a rather pointy post about my unhappiness with the condition of my airline’s domestic US fleet. I showed it to my wife. “Ouff. You’re pretty harsh here. You know, we’ve got all our miles here, and that’s our vacation. You don’t want to hurt their business, then they start to decline and…