This has been an odd, and, exhausting week at work, mostly due to people’s end of the year deadlines that have somehow translated into emergencies for me.
In fact, I told my husband that I felt like I was in some video game where the player was launching stuff at me to see if they could […]
Every now and then, you have a really, really late night, yet you have to go to work the next morning.
I had to go out of town yesterday, and, decided to make the trip back last night instead of staying in a hotel, and, I got home around 1:30 am to find my husband working […]
My husband is a teacher, and, one of the advantages (No, it’s not the pay, but that was a good guess. Not.) is that he can sometimes get to the kids’ school activities that are near the end of the school day.
Today was the kindergarten Halloween party, and, the room mother called me last week […]
One of the hardest things about being a working parent with school age children is that often you don’t have the afternoon hours to supervise homework.
Even though kids may go to some after school care where they’re supposed to be doing homework, let’s face it, until they are older, and, sometimes not even then, […]
My mother in law was the original working parent.
A busy mother of 4 active boys (like there’s any other kind, no?), she (and my father in law) worked full time, and, even managed to cook a hot breakfast every morning, was involved with school, and, somewhere along the line, was even the president of the […]
A while back, we talked about requesting time off for unspecified “things” when you are a parent, but, how much do you reveal when you are late to work?
Apparently, some excuses are seen as more legitimate than others when you get to your desk after the appointed hour.
According to the UK Times Online:
More than half […]
In my perusal of the literature about working parents I often run across the phrase, “working parents who don’t have time to _______”.
Even in the rare use of it that rings true, the phrase just bugs me. When it’s used in it’s typical context, it’s usually used to explain away, or, hint at the […]
It’s an age old debate in the workplace: Do parents get more time off than non-parents?
I don’t know if there’s an answer to that question or not, really.
I do know, that since I’ve had kids, I feel like I’m asking for and explaining myself a lot more often, but, at my workplace, I don’t […]
It’s that time of year again. We’ve only been in school a couple of weeks, and, already I feel like I’m packing the same thing in the kids’ lunch boxes every day since we’re always in a hurry to get out the door.
The Weary Parent has a great list of Healthy Lunch Box and Snack […]
More from the, “Oh, you worrrrrk….” files:
My youngest child started kindergarten.
Since he had a half day on the first day, we went out to lunch after school.
While we were eating, a woman, whom I recognize from school, came up to us. Though we have mutual friends, I don’t really know her.
But, I […]
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