“I have a conference call at 9, but I can call in from home.”
“I’ve got more PTO.”
“Well, I’m not too busy, you go ahead and I’ll stay home.”
It’s always a bit of a juggle to determine who will be on sick duty and who will go to work. But Monday’s negotiations determined I would stay home with the kids. Luckily, I can get a lot of my work done from my computer at home, and when the kids are sick they tend to just watch TV all day anyway. (Judge if you want…I’m okay with lots of TV on sick days!)
Well, wouldn’t you know it, but by about 9:00 Ethan had made practically a complete recovery. So the kids played happily together for most of the day, and I got quite a lot of work done from home. By about 1:30, though, I decided that I would have to go into the office for a little bit and then drop off a submittal package to ADEQ. I gathered the kids, put some shoes on their bare feet, washed their faces (okay, I actually forgot to do this…) and we took a field trip to Mommy’s office.
They behaved like perfect little angels! Elliot sat in my cube and drew some pictures and even labeled one of them “for pipes”. No one I know actually knows what I do for a living, least of all my kids. But they do know it has something to do with pipes. I think her design looks pretty good!
My little future engineers (NOT!!!) then accompanied me on our submittal errand. Since they were so good, I decided to reward a job well done with some hot fudge sundaes from McDonald’s. Every worker earns his wage!
1 comments:
Wow...that's impressive that they were so quiet for you. We are still trying to work on the whisper voice with Jax. I'm still hopeful that one day he's figure it out. How great that you were able to get so much done. And I'm not above the all day cartoons either when they are sick. ;-)
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