Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Going to work with Mama

Happy New Year!

I’m definitely going to be posting a Christmas
wrap up post of some sort…but wanted to get some
other posts up while they are still fresh in my mind.

One of my favorite memories growing up was
being able to go with my dad to work.  He didn’t
regularly have to work weekends or anything, but
on some occasions, he would head into the office
on a random Saturday.  He worked in insurance – and stepping
into his office – was like going to the playground.
I think I have professed my love of office supplies
on here before – but man – forms in triplicate?
typewriters?  A phone I could pretend to answer?
Post it notes?  Good lord – it was paradise.

Well, over Christmas break I had the chance to
bring Max to my office…well, classroom if you’re
getting technical – but none-the-less, he came to work
with me.  It’s sort of surreal when I see myself
doing the same things my parents did with my own child.
Like, it cements in my mind that I’m actually an adult.

 We were only there to clean the animal cages – which
in total probably took an hour…but he was loving it.
At first, I tried to keep him occupied with random
things in the room – but it turns out he was super
into actually being helpful.
He got to do such tasks as
“sweeping” the floors,
wiping down the cage trays,
getting more hay for our mammals,
giving the chinchilla’s dust baths,
feeding the fish, 
And, as a reward – I let him hold our
Classroom bunny rabbit, Beatrice.
He loves this bunny.
each time he pets her – he shows
such care and concern….it’s super cute!

After the first time we went – I wasn’t sure if he
would want to continue coming with me in the mornings –
But, he did!  What a treat to have my little buddy
working along side of me!

xoxo

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