Perhaps this week will bring me sanity? Last week the kids were home for 2 out of the 5 days and one of the remaining 3 days was used up by errands and other fun. Work-wise one day was mostly taken up by a failed harddisk in one of the servers, which might normally not take much time but this is a server in a place where the nearest person was about 1 hour away. I’m 2 timezones away, so couldn’t do much more than be irritated and communicate between two of the parties involved.
The week before that we’d just decided to put the boys in the afterschool program to give me back some more sane work-hours in the afternoon, which is typically the time I get up to speed work-wise, but then they had no school on that Friday, so that attempt had a bit of a false start.
The reason for our decision to make these changes is that M is now working a fulltime schedule at her work, while taking over (temporarily) for someone who quit her job. She did this with two weeks notice, which was enough to teach M what needs to be done on a daily basis, but there are probably some gaps in her knowledge still. Fun. 
So she got busier, which made things just a little too crazy for me, so we decided to give in and use the option to let them stay 2 hours longer at school, supervised, after which M can pick them up after work, giving me longer stretches of work before & after lunch.
*crosses fingers*
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