Well today I managed to spend more time than I planned traveling the wonderful southern california freeways. Kid #2 had been sick for the last two days but was well enough or well enough to be convinced to return to school today. So I drop all three off, spend considerable time making sure kid#2's teach and the school nurse are clear on the need for her to use her inhaler st school today, head off to work, find parking without breaking any laws, make it into the office, see client , sit down to check my e-mail, then BAM!!!. I get a call from Hubby saying kid#1 is not feeling well and the school just called to say she needs to come home. Now I have to travel over an hour on the freeway in traffic to get from the kid's school to my office. So what does a caring mom do. I ask to speak to kid# 1 on the phone and ask "Are you sure you are really sick?"
-yes mom, my sinuses are acting up and I think I have a fever.
-How much of a fever?
-Mommm. I'm sick
-Sick enough to come home or can you hang out at school till the afternoon.
-I guess I can try (cue the violins)
Well the guilt lasted about two full minutes before I packed up my stuff and headed out to my perfect parking space and traipsed back to pick kid#1 up.
Could she have gotten sick before I spent her college fund driving back and forth to work. Anyway I get there and the school nurse sends for her. Soo as she gets there I feel her head and sure enough NO FEVER. She compensated by giving me the b00-boo face and saying "I feel realllly bad." I checked on kid# 2 while there and watched while she took her inhaler.
Kid#1 is downstairs now recuperating, watching Highschool Musical on the DVR
I'm upstairs trying to get my computer to sign on to the program I need to run a report for work and trying to figure out if technically I need to take sick time for the afternoon or if I'm technically still working.
I thin I'll go downstairs and put the lamp really close to kid #1 so she can really have a fver. Just kidding. Oh the joys of motherhood.
Oh well its probably God intervening form me making a big mistake today. I had scheduled a meeting with my colleagues. I was recently moved and am now working in thier programs. Now according to my boss I don't work for them and we are all on the same level. Of course no one knows what the h--- this means so the purpose of the meeting was to try to hash it out. Of course I don't know how anxious they are to integrate me into their kingdom and my frustration level is through the roof so today's meeting may not have turned out well. We are going to reschedule and I think I will lay out the agenda and possible integration plans via emial beforehand and CC my boss (their ultimate boss also) to circumvent any unwillingness on their part to play nicely.
I'll keep you updated.
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