Ah, I remember those days well. My dad was a police officer, then chief of police (and in between he worked for the highway department, clearing the highways during snow storms). My mom was a nurse and an EMT. We usually had one parent at home on the holidays....
I can remember eating holiday meals at the hospital. Or my dad being gone for big chunks of the day.
My husband doesn't get paid holidays, he has to work ahead in order to get the days off. So he's in the middle of a 11 day stretch with only one day off (today). He gets slightly (a lot) cranky. I'm almost not sure it's worth it. He works Saturdays so he had to work way ahead to get the entire holiday weekend, plus Monday off.
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