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The beat goes on...

Posted on October 09, 2009
I keep thinking we're in the clear with all the kid stuff ... and I keep being proved wrong. PS was feeling better on Tuesday, but had to stay home because she was not yet fever-free for 24 hours.I asked the nanny to come in at 10, planning to leave PS alone for a couple of hours after I left at 8...

Yes, children are resilient

Posted on October 06, 2009
So the sick kid decided to put her ticket money plus her birthday money into an ipod touch. She spent all evening loading it up with tunes and apps, and seems to have forgotten about the concert she missed.I do feel a little indulgent allowing my 11 year old to have a $200 device that I couldn't have even dreamed about at that age...

So here I sit

Posted on October 05, 2009
blogging, not working. Took PS to the doc this morning. Yep, she has the flu. No concert for her tonight. She's taking it fairly well, and DH managed to sell the tix to a coworker.Now I'm just trying to line up childcare for the rest of the week. I am fortunate to have a nanny willing to care for flu-infected children and PS doesn't seem to be nearly as affected as her sisters were...

Problem Girl

Posted on October 04, 2009
I somehow managed to survive the last week, although there were moments when I was not sure that I was going to. The work/mommy balance has been a real struggle--harder than it has been since my first year of law school, I think (when SS had pneumonia 4 times!)After DH missed work on Monday and Tuesday, the nanny stayed with the kids on Wednesday, but I left work early to take them to the doctor

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Not getting any better

Posted on September 30, 2009
SS was sent home from school yesterday with a fever and TT was sent home today (and we checked her this morning and she was perfectly fine!) Turns out they have the swine flu. Seriously--I have three kids and two get the swing flu and the third gets a kidney stone ALL IN ONE WEEK? Meanwhile I have an MSJ response due tomorrow...

Update on Other People's Parents

Posted on September 28, 2009
I just received another comment on this post, which reminded me that I needed to update this story.So the week after Friend spent the weekend with us, she disappeared off the face of the planet. Apparently she came to school on a Thursday, told some kids that she was packing up to move, was pulled from school early the same day, and hasn't been seen since...

Sunday's post: Blogging from the ER on my iphone

Posted on September 28, 2009
Apparently I jinxed myself with yesterday's post. There has been plenty of butt-sitting today, but it has all been at hospitals.Turns out, PS has a kidney stone. Who the hell has ever heard of an 11-year-old kid getting a kidney stone? The poor kid spent most of her day curled into a fetal position...

And on the 7th day, she rested

Posted on September 26, 2009
My life in chaos has continued this week. My to-do list at work was frighteningly long at the beginning of the week, but it is manageable again after I knocked out a couple of research projects that took much less time than I anticipated. We have been car shopping for DH, so I had to rush home Monday night so that we could return a car that we had been test driving over the weekend to a

Life is still chaotic

Posted on September 20, 2009
I am somewhat freaked out by my to-do list at work. It is long, and I am already juggling more cases than I ever did at Old Firm. I have been handed a few small cases to run with, and several medium to large cases that I am second or third-chairing...

I am a sucky blogger

Posted on September 20, 2009
Yes, I have been derelict in my duties to the blogosphere lately. Not so much in my own blog--although my own posting has declined lately--but in my interaction with other bloggers. I'm still reading, ladies, even if I'm not commenting. In fact, I have about 10 posts from various MILPS starred in my reader that I intended to come back and comment on...

I live at the circus

Posted on September 14, 2009
I really wonder if other people have to endure the craziness that we do.On Friday, we were late getting out the door to school. Then TT knocked over her bicycle and was completely incapable of picking it up. I couldn't get to it because the car door was open and blocking the way...

Other people's parents

Posted on September 12, 2009
Friday PS called me at work to ask if a new friend could come over. PS said Friends moved to her school late last year and hadn't yet made very many friends. I said ok, as long as Friend's mom knew there was only a babysitter at our house and no sleepovers because she had a 9:00 soccer game this morning...

The Liar

Posted on September 10, 2009
Probably 90% of the lawyers that I work with are trustworthy people. You make an agreement with somebody, and that is it. Of course, being lawyers we CYA and put it in writing, but there is rarely an issue.Then there is the other 10%. Those are the ones who give the rest of us a bad name...

Maybe I'm smarter than I thought

Posted on September 06, 2009
Leaving old firm may have turned out to be a better decision that I realized. As I was heading into the office Friday morning I saw one of the secretaries from old firm crossing the street. I know she takes the train to work, and she wasn't especially close to a station, so I pulled over and offered her a ride...

Holiday Weekend

Posted on September 05, 2009
We were all supposed to be driving to Hometown this morning. SIL turned 3o yesterday, and his family makes a big deal out of the big birthdays. MIL's b-day was also this week.We found out a few weeks ago that MIL's cancer is inoperable and incurable...

It's raining men--or jobs, as the case may be

Posted on September 02, 2009
You know how when you're single it seems as though all the good guys have disappeared off the planet, but as soon as you are in a relationship again, eligible men are suddenly everywhere?Apparently the same holds true for jobs. It took me two months to find a job...

When is free really free?

Posted on August 31, 2009
PS and I were playing with a keyboard at Costco the other day. She asked if I could play anything, and I responded with the truth: the only thing I can play on the piano is Silver Bells. She was quite impressed with my ability to peck out the first few bars as I sang out the notes ("C-A-G-E, C-A-G-E, E-D-C, A-A-A")...

Cell phone demons

Posted on August 29, 2009
Would you be concerned if your lawyer whipped out this phone? I LOVE this case. It screams something, but I'm not sure it's professionalism. PS said, "it doesn't mean your not a grown up, it just means you're a grown up who likes to have fun."

Perfect Day

Posted on August 26, 2009
Left the house at 7:15 so that I could make it to the office by 8 for an 8:30 meeting with a client. Made it to work at 8:35. (Fortunately both boss and client were late as well.)Spent all day doing off-site doc review with client.Broke for lunch and backed into a low concrete wall that was completely invisible from the driver's seat of my ginormous SUV--with client in the car...

Last day of summer

Posted on August 23, 2009
The girlies go back to school tomorrow. DH escorted them to Meet the Teacher night on Friday. They were bouncing-off-the-walls excited. PS and TT got the teachers they wanted. SS did not, but the way it worked out is really great. SS and TT's teachers will be team teaching this year...

Never criticize your husband's mashed potatoes

Posted on August 17, 2009
Crazy day. I had a dentist appointment that made me about an hour late for work. (I had to be fitted for a crown. I have been putting it off for, oh, 2 years, but I am losing my dental coverage at the end of the month, so it was now or never. I've been on DH's health insurance forever, which includes dental and vision...

Reason # 5,928, 546 why I made the right decision when I left Old Firm

Posted on August 16, 2009
Friday afternoon I was talking to New Boss when Old Firm came up. New Boss said, "Boy, Partner really didn't want to talk to me when I called for references. He told me that my call should be directed to human resources, but I would talk to me because it is you...

ihappiness

Posted on August 15, 2009
To celebrate 2 weeks of gainful employment and my first paycheck in 3 months, I finally got my iphone last night. I had been debating between the iphone and blackberry, and since my office runs macs and our calendaring email system is a mac-based system, the iphone seemed to make the most sense...

The bane of youth

Posted on August 13, 2009
Today I met a client with whom I telephone conferenced earlier in the week. He asked if I had been doing this very long. My boss piped in that I had just started with the firm, but that I had been practicing for a couple of years. Client said, "well you couldn't have been practicing very long, you sure don't look very old...

New job: week 2

Posted on August 12, 2009
Tomorrow marks 2 weeks at the new job. I think this week is going much better than last. Last week I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with getting up to speed on several cases at once. At old firm I was finally at the point where I had brought most of my cases up from their infancy and I was very familiar with them...

Holiday

Posted on August 09, 2009
We've never taken the kids on a big vacation, for several reasons, I guess. For one, the cost for 5 people to travel anywhere becomes astronomical very quickly. When we were living on a single income, most trips were simply out of our budget, so we tended to stick close to home...

Enjoy the silence

Posted on August 06, 2009
So I guess my posting has slowed now that I have rejoined the ranks of the employed. My week started off slowly, with a little bit of thumb-twiddling. Now my desk is covered with projects and I already feel like I'm behind. I have worked later than I would prefer nearly every night this week...

First Day in the Office

Posted on August 02, 2009
I have moved from a mid-sized firm in a big shiny building downtown, to a smallish firm in a smaller shiny building not downtown. In one of my interviews with another firm, someone asked me how important it was for me to remain downtown. I responded that it was not at the top of my priority list--which is true, I could not care less about the "prestige" of working downtown...

Day 1

Posted on July 30, 2009
Well, I survived Day 1 of the new job. Thanks to all of you who wished me luck!I wasn't in the office--instead they sent me to a seminar being presented by the female attorney who initially interviewed me. I am sure that the reason I got the job began with her...

A hypothetical

Posted on July 28, 2009
Attorney obtains discovery from opposing party. Attorney tells Client that Client can review and flag relevant documents, rather than paying attorney to review discovery. Client has no legal training.What do you think of Attorney's actions?

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