Finally a little relief.

This will be a long one.

The thing is that I don’t have very much of a poker face.

I just need there to be more order.

I told myself I would skip the gluten today, but this scone is perfection.

I make a joke about my daughter being twelve years old and making a drop-in daycare center in our office.

I tell him that it was another one of those days with people telling me lots of everything and feeling like I have no way of helping.

I get a glass of rosé and sit down with the notebook and the printouts. Our table slowly starts to fill. Strategy session. The last one for the year.

We say what needs to be said. And there were times when we thought we should have said the hard things sooner. But honestly, the timing was just right.

But now I really feel like I need a vacation.