Mom Duty Calls

This morning I woke up and showered for work, I went to wake up the kid and she was groggy and sneezy and complaining that her head hurt. "But you are going to the Sprayground today at day camp" I coaxed. "I don't care," replied the kid, "I don't feel like playing in the water." Obviously I had a sick child on my hands. I gave her some allergy meds and put her back to bed and then called into work.

As luck would have it, the little stinker declared at 10:50 a.m. that she was ready to go to camp. By now the camp had departed for field trip fun and I had already bothered to stay home. I hate missing work. I'm always secretly paranoid that they will can my ass -- even though I just had a stellar annual review and I rated as "exceeds expectations" on my attendance.

So what did I do today? Behold:

• cleaned the kitchen
• tweezed my eyebrows
• made a homemade oatmeal honey face masque and let Hope smear the goo on my face (She loved that)!
• yelled at the kid to clean her room (to no avail)
• straightened the house
• took the kid to a dr. appt.
• drank a large iced vanilla latte
• read about 50 pages of A Tale of Two Cities
• made homemade chicken cheesy casserole that Hope loves
• cleaned the kitchen again
• played with the cat
• read emails
• consumed 2 diet cokes
• talked to Daena on the phone

Now the kid is tucked in bed and ready for camp tomorrow. I'm dreading work because I need to slap together 2 phenomenal displays, finish a publication, and compile fall stats for interlibrary loan.

I will be freebasing coffee tomorrow; you've been warned.

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