{"id":3641,"date":"2011-07-17T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2011\/07\/17\/bad-mother\/"},"modified":"2011-07-17T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:35:33","slug":"bad-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/bad-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon around 3:00, I realized I had no idea where either of my children were. John was visiting his girlfriend’s<\/a> parents & friends in Iowa; Al was not yet back from camp and not picking up his phone. I had to drive a basket of clean laundry over to East Wash<\/a>, and had my phone lying on the seat next to me. It rang and the number showed “Blocked”, and I thought, “Fuck, one of ’em’s in jail.” Turned out to be a telemarketer…..<\/p>\n

John’s been posting iPhone pictures to Instagram<\/a> of his trip – some of them look quite beautiful to me (see below) – but they’re not browseable – unless you go to his facebook<\/a> or twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turned out Al has simply stayed at camp for the dedication of a new building<\/a> – they paid staff $10 \/ hour to stick around and work the ceremony. This morning he stumbled into the kitchen and asked for coffee in a to-go cup, and I wondered if he was awake enough to drive. He left Emma holding the cup and went down the basement to get something; coming back up the steps on the tail end of my explanation to her that I had bought this particular cup because the organizers of the Seattle InfoCamp that I went to in 2009 suggested we bring our own coffee cups & water bottles, Al said “Cheap Bastards” – so I knew he’d be OK.<\/p>\n

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Bulger's Hollow<\/p><\/div>\n

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Carman Welcome Center at Phantom Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

posted from my iPhone, at least for starters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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