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[quote=Anonymous]I have one memorable one to add. My spouse was relocating our family from city A to city B for a job within the same company. The bosses in both cities were being inflexible about his start date and ultimately City A told him at the last minute that he needed to work over New Years, which were the days we were planning to literally drive/move. We had already told our landlord we would be out on December 28 and our furniture and belongings were on the moving truck. We made arrangements to stay at a hotel in City A for a few extra days with our toddler twins. 
Then I got a violent norovirus or stomach virus, the worst I’ve ever had. On New Years Eve! Boss of city A had already been adamant DH had to work. I had to call the part-time preschool I had unenrolled my children from to beg them to let me sign my kids up for the day of winter break camp. The preschool was 2 blocks away from our old apartment but 20 minutes away from the one room hotel we were in. We obviously had no kitchen so I had my spouse grab dry cereal boxes from downstairs to feed the kids breakfast and stopped at a bodega to buy them bagels for lunch (the preschool kindly gave them cheddar bunnies for snack). My husband wasn’t allowed to leave work to pick them up at 3pm and the subway ride back to the hotel involved transferring train lines. My amazing best friend and amazing part time sitter, neither of which had a car with car seats, both went together to get the toddlers and pick them up. Obviously they couldn’t really look after them in the one room hotel room while I was ill, so they came and got the stroller and took them to Barnes & Noble and got them dinner. I literally had to crawl to the door to hand off the stroller. Thankfully I was better the following day and no one else got sick. But it was not how I wanted to spend our last moments handling an out of town move with small children. [/quote]

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