Will Soon Be Graduating From High School This means, in some small measure, I have successfully managed to get him through 12 years of school and to the age of 18 alive. No small accomplishment, that. Today he called for a ride home after he rode the bus most of the way to our house. As it was about 90 degrees outside, I obliged. I'm a good mom, plus it got me out of a very hot house and into the sweet deliciousness of my air conditioned vehicle. My oldest and youngest daughters went along for the ride and they spotted The Boy before I did. "What's up with his pants?" Indeed. The operative word for his pants was up . He wears those extremely skinny jeans and he'd rolled them up to about knee level and he was walking towards us with a grimace on his face. He was in pain. You see, five hours earlier, in the throes of near heat exhaustion, he rolled the legs of his pants up and then his legs swelled up. He was unable to remove his own pants or roll down what he...
Stop working for awhile!
ReplyDeleteThat's great advice Steve....except when I have deadlines to meet.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on it though. I am. I mean the whole not-being-glued-to-my-work when the kids are home thing.
I'm making it work. I have to!
Actually, Pam - Steve's right. Sometimes you have to say no otherwise you'll start to lose perspective. Speaking from experience and because I also write, it's very much from the same angle. I don't work for anyone who wants 1000 words yesterday for nothing - I'm in charge. Yes, I may have lost out on work but I've also got a roster of clients who are satisfied with the way I work because they know they get a decent bit of work in exchange.
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