Dear Goodwin Procter LLP:
If I could describe my perfect evening it would go something like this.
Chad would walk in the door around 6:00p.m. (aka still light outside) and take the kids in the back yard to play football and make Jack and Marian giggle while he "jiggled" (aka juggled).
I would be in the kitchen cooking dinner (pancakes of course) while listening to two things: First, my children laughing with their dad and yelling "mom come watch this, come watch this!!!". Second, I'd listen to a gifted musician tune my newly acquired piano (from craigslist).
In my perfect evening the piano tuner would be the same piano tuner who works for the Berkley School of Music in Boston (only I wouldn't have known that when I hired him, I would just find out later how lucky I was when he started play amazing Jazz on my surprisingly wonderful sounding piano.) The same piano tuner would also tell me that I had made a real find on craigslist and that the piano was worth at least twice what I paid for it.
My perfect evening would continue as my whole family sat around the table to give thanks and eat our pancakes (with freshly made syrup). I would have just enough leftover Chicken and rice so Chad wouldn't have to eat pancakes for dinner. But only just enough so that the rest of us could.
My perfect evening would include Jack and Marian playing happily in the tub (without causing too much of a flood) while I sat holding Lucy and Chad swept the kitchen floor. Then, after pajamas and pull-ups we would all gather around the newly tuned piano and sing "I am a Child of God" while I messed up only a little bit on the accompaniment and J and M jumped on the couch only a little bit too.
Then we would put the kids to bed and they wouldn't run out of their rooms too many times before falling asleep.
Tonight was just such a night and it was AWESOME.
Thank you so much for making it possible (financially, "scheduley", etc... etc....
Sincerely, Mary Pugh
p.s. I never properly thanked you for the 4 week paternity leave last March. That was awesome too. Thank you.
