I worked both days this weekend, and Sunday and Monday nights til approaching midnight – all to meet a Monday filing deadline (met). So this morning when I got a call from Craig’s daycare saying it was 10:30 a.m. and he’d been uncharacteristically asleep for two hours, I was almost relieved to have to leave…
Category: Domestic Bliss
Name-Dropping NOLA Eateries
The boys (all four of them) have been gone this whole week. I had to stay home, of course, and I have literally worked every single day that they have been gone. It’s Saturday and I’ll be going into the office in a bit – though not til after I do a Body Pump class…
Care Work
Today I am largely engaged in care work – feeding ice to a pale and sweaty six year old who can’t keep food or drink in his stomach today; following him around the house with a Clorox wipe; washing the numerous linens he is soiling, bless his virus-ridden little heart; shifting him from couch to…
Summer Weekend
A summer weekend: I wake at 6, lace up the shoes and go for a run. The summer heat and humidity is already so intense, my peppy run quickly devolves to a walk/jog. I shuffle over to Audubon park, do lunges around half the circle, wilt some more. I stagger home, and Craig flings open…
Dinners
An old college friend with three elementary-school aged children was recently widowed. Her husband was in his early forties when he died – he had been dealing with cancer a long while, which is terrible in many ways, but also gave them a long timeline for death. With all of its many cruelties – the logistics of…