I admire people who can work from home and do it so well you would never know they weren't in the office. For the past two days I have been home because one kid has coxsackie and the fur child had surgery to remove and biopsy some strange lumps we found. So in between answering emails from work I have been part nurse, trying to get the one with blisters in his mouth to drink a little bit (including his dosage of Tylenol) and part vet, trying to keep the other from licking at his stitches. I settled for giving one ice cream and popsicles for his meals and the other is fitted with a cut-up child's t-shirt around his middle covering his sutures. So I now have a sugared up sick kid and a dog that walks sideways because he doesn't like the t-shirt around him.

And I thought the battle to justify and increase my library budget was hard.