Thaw before reheating.
{ 2009 12 20 }
We’re 6 days into the business trip, and here is where we’re at:
Twelve critical car failures
Eleven inside-out shirts
Ten broken pieces
Nine honey-soaked shelves
Eight groceries lost
Seven piles of cat puke
Six un-mailed packages
….Five sections of tree lights out!….
Four flat-tire helpers
Three more days of single-parenting
Two arguing children
AND
One CHRISTMAS SUR-PRISE RUINED!
Posted by holly on Sunday, December 20th, 2009, at 9:13 pm, and filed under Family, Mi Familia.
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Regular dishes on life in New Orleans, historic home renovation, raising kids, completing a PhD, travel near and far, global concerns, and health issues.
You know the story, right? International health... work all over the place... drag my kids around in sacks through villages in Central America... yadda yadda. I decided to go for another degree, so in 2004 we moved to New Orleans with no intention of staying. Then Katrina. And then *blink*blink* New Orleans is a completely different place and we just can't leave. Suddenly I'm on TV talking about immigrants and health and Paul is starting a company. Or two. His side is high-tech, mine is community health and our lives are yearly evacuation, regular celebrations, and nonstop work here, there, and everywhere. Our door is always open. I only ask that if you decide to go ahead and make yourself that mint julep, you make one for me, too.
We strive to make our life our argument.
alejna | 21-Dec-09 at 7:35 pm | Permalink
Oh, Holly. You deserver an award, a vacation, a large quantity of chocolate and a stiff drink. Perhaps not in that order.
On the other hand, you have made an entertaining song of it. Don’t you look forward to being able to look back on this time with laughter? (Assuming that you survive to reach that time in one piece.)
Here’s hoping that you won’t need to add any more calamaties to the song in the next few days. (Oh, wait, it’s already too late, isn’t it.)
Painted Maypole | 21-Dec-09 at 10:40 pm | Permalink
i saw your comment over at alejna’s, and I’m gonna go ahead and linky you up as a Monday Mission, if you don’t mind. 😉 serendipitous. a least one moment in all this madness, eh? what is up this year? It’s like everything is going haywire for all of us!
Mary Gilmour | 22-Dec-09 at 10:51 am | Permalink
Perfect! Except in my place it’s dog mess.