Had an interesting phone call from my mom today. First little tid bit, my cousin's wife Denise is going in for a C-section tomorrow. My first thought was the baby was too big. She's really tiny, then I remembered at the baby shower she asked me when Alex turned. I had told her he was doing sommersaults until week 34 then pretty much settled into head down. So now I'm thinking the baby is breech. Either way there's a new family member here soon.
The second bit of news, is a bit more complicated. The firm my mom is with, has for the last year and a half been negotiating the sale of it to another firm. My mom was looking forward to this because it meant she wouldn't have to work with C any more (one of the senior partners). The other partners have been reviewing the contracts and the way things are written it looks like C ends up with almost everything and the rest of the partners get the shaft. Needless to say they've decided to not go through with the sale. To put another nail in this the other junior partner looked at his contract and it was only for a year, no raise. Which means once they have his clients they can basically fire him. My mom has been trying for the last month to get information on her offer. C of course gives her no info, but he's buddy buddy with the main partner of the new firm. Mom now thinks that C has been talking about her, so that now the new people feel she's not someone they want to keep around. She had thought this would be a good opportunity for her. They'd have no preconceptions and base their judgement on her work.
Both mom and the other junior partner are on C's shit list it's just the other guy had been able to weather things better. Not sure if he had more clients of his own, but he definately didn't loose half a year fighting cancer. What this all boils down to is the remaining partners are in the process of writing a letter as to why they no longer want to go through with the sale. They are going to confront C tomorrow. Basically he can move to the other firm with his clients but he's definately gone from this firm. Mom joked that now she and another partner can fight over the front office. She was just being sarcastic, she could care less about something like a front office. She doesn't need the status symbol, unlike C. She'll call back later in the week once she knows what's what, to let me know when she'll be down to visit. I know she still wants a trip to the beach before she takes Jessica and Brandon back up to Girard.
We did our 4th of July Sunday night. My biggest mistake was not to bring enough stuff to a) keep alex occupied b) snack on and c) a radio to listen to. We'll plan better next year. Alex was really onry the last hour between when we had dinner and when the fireworks started. It was of course past his bedtime. The thing that calmed him down was opening the cooler and letting him get ice cubes to suck on, soon after the fireworks started and he was all smiles, pointing and naming colors. We got home a little before 11, so a very late night for him and he didn't really sleep in or nap for that matter yesterday. Though today he did both. I guess today is catch up sleep day. Well I gotta go a thunderboomer is moving in.
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