I'm in a meeting

Last Tuesday Thing 1 stood on stage and recited a comedic poem for Eisteddfod. As I discovered two years ago, Eisteddfod is a wee bit of a big deal around here. Despite the chaos of our current lives Husband moved heaven and earth to break out of work mid-meetings to come. However, he couldn't stay for the whole bloody thing, and thus, when Thing 1 was done (he did very well) we slipped out, which is kind of tacky, but the teachers and head said they understood - we both had meetings. Felt kind of guilty telling them we BOTH...