AKA, wearing 10 hats in one day. Or, I'll never understand how those stuck in the rigid law firm environment with no flexibility stay sane.
My day yesterday:
6:30--Wake up, shower.
7:00--Eat breakfast and help get older child get ready for school, although hubby has the day off so it's mainly his job.
7:45--Check email, catch up with news, etc. online. Post to this blog.
8:30--Leave for office.
9:00--Arrive at office and pick up and drop off files.
9:30--Go to grocery store to pick up food supplies for dinner that we're making for people very close to us who are going through a very difficult time.
9:40--Go to TJMaxx to buy a birthday present for my eldest daughter's friend's birthday party on Saturday. Pick up small gift for friends going through a tough time.
10:15--Arrive home. Wrap gift for friends. Get cup of coffee, set iPhone alarm for 11:30, and do legal research on Westlaw. Hubby and youngest daughter are gone to the doctor.
- She's been sick for nearly 7 week now. First we all had the flu in late January, which turned into an ear infection for her in mid-February, so she went on a course of antibiotics. She never really got better, and in the last week, has had a fever of 103 and is constantly coughing and then throwing up when she coughs really hard--mostly in her bed at night. She had to go to the ER in the middle of the night a few nights ago when her cough turned into croup and she had a very hard time breathing.
11:25--Go outside and get eldest off school bus. Make her lunch and eat lunch myself. Hubby comes home. Youngest has a very bad ear infection (again) and and upper respiratory infection and has been prescribed stronger antibiotics.
12:30-3:00--Draft letter to New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York, seeking leave to appeal a criminal case. Hubby makes baked ziti for our friends.
3:00--Drive to office and oversee preparation of enclosures for letter to NY State Court of Appeals. It takes longer than expected.
4:30--Leave office and drive home in the middle of a snow storm. Stop at pharmacy to pick up antibiotics for youngest.
5:00--Arrive home. Everyone piles into the car and we head to friend's house.
5:30--Arrive and visit for 1/2 hour or so.
6:15--Arrive at the best grocery store ever--Wegmans. We eat and then kids and hubby watch kid's movies upstairs while I do the weekly grocery shopping.
8:00--Arrive home. Give youngest the antibiotics. She doesn't like it and begins to cry. Youngest is getting a fever again and gets very cranky. Continues to cry and then promptly pukes up her dinner and the antibiotics right next to the piles of laundry waiting to be put away, splattering her clean sheets and blankets, that she'd puked on two nights ago, in the process.
8:05--Strip her down, give her ibuprofin, and take kids upstairs to get them ready for bed. Hubby cleans up puke, throws the puke spattered bed linens into the washer and puts away groceries.
8:30--Kids are in bed. Kids don't settle down until about 9:00. Hubby and I watch tv for a while and begin to fall asleep on the couch around 10:30, so off to bed we go.
3:00--Youngest wakes up coughing and can't go back to sleep. I'm "on duty" since hubby has to work the next day. Finally get her back to sleep at 4 or so.
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Today, hubby is at work, youngest now has pink eye and the birthday party the eldest was supposed to go to was canceled at the last minute since the birthday girl is sick.
Another day, another juggle.
I know what you mean about those who work at a rigid firm. I work in a City Attorney's office, and they are very understanding about needing time off for kids. Good thing, since today I'm home with the youngest who's sick - AGAIN.
Posted by: Leann | Mar 10, 2008 at 11:08 AM