I went to the school nurse and asked her to check out a long standing pain I have been having in my left wrist. “Perhaps it is carpal tunnel syndrome?” I asked. “Unlikely since you’ve been back a week” she politely responded. She asked a few more questions and then wrapped me up with an official looking ace bandage. Felt better. My boss happened to walk in at that exact moment and said “I was meeting with you 5 minutes ago, what could you possibly have done?”. I have no clue, I am embarrassed. “Not sure” I chuckled.

Later that night, I was walking with my two older children, pushing my baby in his stroller and trying to flag down a cab. When it came time to dismantle the stroller, carry the baby in the remaining car seat and shuffle my two other children into the cab, it was clear what the pain was from–life with little kids and lots of apparatus. Uh oh…