I'm officially Mrs. "Mr. Mom"

I have to go out of town next week for work to testify in an arbitration. I've known about it for a while, but they never gave me the exact dates - they just told me my testimony would only be one day, but asked me to reserve Oct. 29-Nov. 2 and told me they'd let me know closer to the time which day they'd need me. Then, for a while, they kept telling me the case was probably going to settle, but to just keep the dates open just in case. So, I tried to put the possibility of being out of town on Halloween out of my mind.

Well, my bubble got burst yesterday in our pre-trial prep call when they told me that it's definitely going forward and I will most likely have to testify in the afternoon on Oct. 31, so I will need to be there from Oct. 30-Nov 1.

I'm so bummed about missing Halloween with Elizabeth. It's the first year she's really getting into it. She's been practicing saying "trick or treat" for weeks now and just this morning when I got her out of bed, she asked if today was Halloween because she's ready to wear her costume.

I just keep re-playing the scene from Mr. Mom in my head. The one where she leaves her family all dressed for Halloween to go on a business trip.....



Anyone know a good way to tell your client that you'd really love to complete the project you've been working on for almost a year, and you understand they have $10 million on the line and your testimony is critical, but your little girl is going to be a bumblebee and you can't miss it? :(