The Middlest caught a cold from his cousin over Thanksgiving – a rattly little cough, irritating but not too chesty. He suffered through it like a trooper, though a high fever took him down for the count one day (I took him to the office that day and he was quiet as a mouse, sleeping…
Category: Work Life Clusterf*s
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After our first house offer-back-and-forth was ultimately unsuccessful, then the next day our (much smaller but cleverly designed) backup house got bought – just a few days after it went on the market. OK NOLA, so it’s gonna be like that. I have 3 briefs in support of a dispositive motion due in the next…
Snow – er – Rain Day
It rained, hence school was canceled. Ever since that Birmingham/Atlanta hot mess, the principals have had an itchy trigger finger with the school cancellations. NOLA does have legitimate street-flooding issues, and yesterday parts of Louisiana – other parts of Louisiana, really far away parts of Louisiana – have had some devastating floods due to a rain…
Top O the Mornin’
So the boys didn’t have school yesterday, but I had a depo. I always space their Veterans’ Day day off, and when I was asked to cover this depo I chirped “sure!” Ugh. I dealt with it but it made for a stressful day. Today I have an evidentiary hearing, and Jack is telling me…
Bound
CM recently wrote a post that resonated with me (and a lot of other people, judging by the comments). Our “funk cycles” are in sync – I, too, am feeling somewhat trapped by my small children right now. The other day walking back from the bus stop with Liam and the dog, I had…