BlueOverGray
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Loss and memories can be very hard. Perhaps your mom wants to be sure you don't have regrets years later about not including your beloved dad on the happiest day of your life. It may be hard, but it would probably be worth it.
My bestie growing up got remarried a couple of years ago. (We are in our sixties now!) She and her kids carried pictures of her deceased parents and brother in the procession. It was sooooo important to the whole family and to her grade school bestie. It was a wonderful reminder of family and good times we all shared without taking more time than to put the pictures down. And that was the only attention put on those sweet folks, but that tiny bit of time and attention made her circle complete.
You've asked for a lot of time off in a short time period. Depending on how you asked for that time, and then how you kept adding on demands, management wouldn't be out of line to just let you go (I wouldn't have hired you in the first place had those dates been made known in advance.) Now, an employer is never right to ask about any kind of medical appointment, but since your employer has bent over backwards to give you, a new part-timer, over 2 weeks off in barely over 2 months time, I would try very hard to reschedule something...like my therapy appointments at least. I know therapy is important, but so is work. If you cannot meet the kind of hours obligation they need from you, you should probably just quit. Perhaps the reason you don't have the job that earlier approved all that time off is that they realized you don't offer the kind of commitment to reasonable hours that they needed, either.
Find out what bonded house sitters cost in your area and send her a bill for that, plus her one week's discounted rent PLUS double the discount as a PIA tax (I mean, paying rent on a job is an added expense, so the house sitter fees go up, too!!) . And demand a signed contract with payment of at least half up front because you'll pay heck trying to get it out of her after her trip without going to small claims court.
The 40k pay bump seems a little far-fetched, but the rest of that story happens every day. Been there and done that more than once.
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