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Momma Work

The kids talk a lot about the fact that I work these days. They continue to pretend play that they're going to work. They take one  look at me each morning and try to ascertain whether I'm going to work or not, based on what I'm wearing. Because it's such a hot topic of conversation, when I found out we had a family for one of my studies that could only come in at 4pm on a Friday (my day off), I thought it might be fun to bring the kids to work with me. We have lots of lovely undergrads who help out with sib sitting, so we asked Audrey if she would be willing to watch S&Z in conjunction with another study visit for which she was already scheduled to cover.

I think the kids only came into lab twice last year (once in May for study piloting and once in Halloween for the LCN party), and neither of those times did I separate too far from them. Running a visit would involve leaving them in the sib room for upwards of an hour, so I was crossing my fingers and verbally preparing them for what they were going to be doing when we visited Momma's work.

There was time for a snack and some chatting with the postdocs in main lab before the family arrived. At this point I think they were assessing the havoc they would be able to wreck after the visit...


Audrey was a saint during the visit and the kids had so much fun playing with her! They had no problems at all separating from me so I was really relieved.


After Sonya walked the family downstairs, S&Z sat down to have some pb&j for dinner.


They also had a lot of fun playing with Sonya after dinner!


At this point all the labbies were gone and it was time to roam and check out the rest of the lab.


Including my office,


It was a really fun afternoon and the kids did great! I hope that now they have some visual images of where I go the next time they say, "Momma Work"!

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