Broken!

Working at home has its advantages…flexibility, time with your family and, oh yeah, not having to take off from work when your son snaps his tibia bone from trying a skateboarding trick on Saturday morning.

Saturday morning my husband took my son and his friend to the skate park for a morning of shredding ramps.  10 minutes into their visit my son somehow missed a ramp and landed on his tibia bone-the one near your shin.  He heard a crack, his friend heard a crack so did everyone at the skate park.

Three hours in the ER and he was on Tylenol with Codeine and was fitted for a nice air cast that he could wear until we could have his leg set.  I planned on working Saturday but those plans went out the window.  Most of Saturday night was spent awake listening to him moan in agony. I had to resume the work meant for Saturday on Sunday.

By Monday I was really behind but managed to knock out a few more stories while waiting for him in the Orthopedist’s office before we were told he needed a cast to his hip for six weeks, followed by another cast to his knee for another six weeks.  So, we’re talking Christmas before this sucker comes off.

The whole time I kept thinking…what would I have done if I had to go to an office?  I would have had to finagle getting time off to run him here and there and maybe wouldn’t have been able to be with him the entire time.

Sure, working from home can be tough…it’s 11:23 PM and I’ve been working since 7AM; but I’ve been with him the entire day while I worked on and off.

So we’re lucky, we work from home moms.  We can have our career and family…we just need to work a little later and weekends!

Update:  Alex only made it to two classes and called me in pain.  I picked him up, poor guy.  The nice thing is that I could just zip out the door…no boss to ask, no leave slip to fill out.  We’re all lucky we have this freedom!