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So, many people in Columbus still don’t have power, and my heart goes out to them. Especially my program coordinator who is at home with a one week baby. However, I have moved on to a different crisis, which is, I have power at work, MD has power at work, but daycare doesn’t. And I [...]

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Protected: Coffee cups

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Trying to focus

I’ve griped to everyone here, I’ve eaten chocolate and a cookie offered up – gingerly, tossed through a crack in my closed door – by my coordinator, I’ve walked outside to get a latte, and it’s just not working. My head is not in the game today.
I could point to a million and one reasons, [...]

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When all else fails

Organize.
I am sick – again. Cold, cough, chest hurts. But it seems to be on the mend already and it’s a busy, busy week (month) and so I am at work. But I am a little fuzzy and it’s hard to keep my momentum so I am organizing – again.  The new meeting folder system [...]

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I’m sitting in the lobby of my hotel, waiting for the shuttle to come and take me and my fellow conference-attendees to Taos for the rest of the conference. I’ll be in New Mexico until Thursday, making for a long, full week trip. But this place is gorgeous and the people exceedingly friendly and [...]

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Protected: Values

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Protected: Pulling it all together

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…about being a working mom is how the simplest thing – having to get a prescription filled* – can almost ruin the evening. It’s the difference between a real dinner and a hastily thrown together thank goodness for morningstar farms and frozen veggies affair. The difference between a 2.5 yo who would have been able [...]

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I’m starting to panic a little about leaving tomorrow. We are in day 3 of Tantrumgate and the house looks and feels as though we are under siege. We have good and bad days of daycare, and the good have outnumbered the bad this week, 3-1. (Sadly, a score that is flipped at home.) Don’t [...]

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I had a presentation to give for work today and it did not begin well. I recovered fairly quickly but there were a few horrible minutes when my heart was pounding, my hands were shaking, and my ears were roaring – you know, like a seashell or something. I’ve been reminding myself all day that [...]

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