We survived!

But I think you knew we would. I've heard rumors of other mothers solo parenting for longer than five nights and even single parenting for like, a lifetime. (And by solo parenting I mean, even though I'm on my own, I have good reason to believe my partner will return and meanwhile he is still paying all the bills and keeping a roof over our head. I think there must be a big difference.)

I relied heavily on my parents, who fed us two dinners and picked Little G up from school for me one afternoon. Other than that, we tried to keep very busy with urban adventuring and dragging other little friends on some of our favorite outings. The final night we went out with a family who also had a father out of town and that was a blast. Totally crazy but in the best way.

The worst part of the week was probably the night I had to go back to the legal clinic after three months of maternity leave. I think I might be done with legal clinic, although this is sort of a problem since my new status with the bar requires that I do pro bono work. I want to do the pro bono work, I just need to find something that doesn't demand expertise in every subject on earth. More on this later.