I am ridiculously excited about my zoom call with Potentially Interested Agent (PIA). Which, if I manage not to let my electromagnetic Technofail aura nuke the proceedings, will take place in just under two hours (in 1 hour 47 minutes, but who’s counting?).
Key Plan For Successful Call was finding a time and location in this home with a low probability of offspring incursions. Children #2-4 will be home (#1 is at her how-to-be-a-farmer morning), and usually 1-2:30pm is our Quiet Time, meaning we all go upstairs to our rooms and in theory everyone remains tucked away. In practise this does sometimes happen, but I’m also there to pop up and remind them to stay put if I hear the thunder of tiny feet in the hall, holler if I spot Child #2 having a swim in the pond from my window, wipe Child #3’s bum if needed, etc. Child #4 is so far a delight at this time, by which I mean she sleeps the whole time in her cot 👌💪
But I have a Lovely Godsend Teenager here to fill in the various roles above. And Husband (if he remembers) will leave his office door open in case there’s an emergency. And I shall hide away with a sign on my hard-to-find study door making it clear for the literate progeny (who are also the most capable of undoing the high up double-sided locks we have on some doors) that even if the house is burning down, I am still going to finish my call and do not want any interruptions.
Wish me luck!
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