Sunday, July 12, 2009
BEACH!
Oh my goodness did we ever have a great week at the beach. It was sublime, perfect (except for getting up too early every.single.morning except yesterday morning when we needed to be up early-of course the kids slept in! The kids were so stinking cute! Mary has turned a perfect shade of brown with bleached hair and Robert is brown and his eyes had a perminant sparkle. We went from beach (sand and baby pool and running around) to pool, to playing with relatives to watching movies. We (or rather he) must have watched Milo and Otis a 10+ times (Robert was so cute all perched up on our big king sized bed watching TV!). I even heard some sentances that I have never heard from Robert before "mommy I want to go to bed" and "mommy I need a nap". Who is this child??? Wesley and I even got to go out for an afternoon AND supper all in one day! Add to that girl time with my cousins in the hot tub, time to read, time to play on the computer, time to doze in front of the TV, time to watch food network and you know that I have been mightily spoiled! Plus mom made breakfast everyday and was willing to stay at the beach house and monitor sit so we could hang out at the other house and play games (tank do mommy!), we only had to cook one night, a trip to Wilmington, good food, time to catch up with people and did I mention that the kids were so cute?!? By the end of the week the kids were splashing in the shallows and Mary was running headlong into the waves (of course!). Mary charmed all the relatives with her amazing vocabulary that sprouted even more over the week "tank-do mommy" sentances? really? Baby girl don't grow up so fast, please! Plus her attention to baby, blowing kisses, snuggling, discovering etc. Robert learned or tried to learn the rudiments of slap jack (with all the other face cards removed), played trains with the cousins, playdough, cars, gloried in all the helicopters flying around and the toy helicopters that aunt Ruth got him (plus a dune buggy AND a car!). On the way back we stoped at chick f-il-a and gave the kids time to play which worked out really well. We were there about an hour and it was the only stop we made. I think we stopped 4 times on the way there so that was a decided improvement! I couldn't have immagined a better trip, it was really, truly perfect!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
New(used) Van!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we got a new(used) van today :) A 02 Dodge Caravan with dual sliding doors :) It's maroon. And has I dunno 40 or 50 K miles. Much better than Wesley's 92 with 204 K. I'm so excited although Wesley pointed out a couple things tonight that make it less exciting for the use on long trips-the headrest on the front seats is solid so our DVD player attacher won't fit (argh!) and although there is latch on the middle seats there isn't on the back seat so we can't just move them around like we thought we could-or we could we would just need to use seatbelts or something. I dunno, I'm at work getting this info second hand. :)- He did manage to get the car seats installed and Robert wanted to go for a ride with "Mary and Snoopy" so the 4 of them went to B'Water and back in it and supposedly all were pleased :). 3 year olds, what will you do with them. :)
Robert is so cute with his little sayings. Mostly it is "I didn't do x". Which generally means he did do it. "I didn't pull snoopy's tail, push Mary, climb the chair and get daddy's (model) car...." ohy. And then when he sees me in scrubs he wants "Mommy to take off my flowers". I think he has his pronouns wrong but it's cute! He also wants mommy to take off her shoes. In fact he really doesn't like for me to wear shoes period.
We went for Mary's 15 month checkup today. If I were a good mommy I would remember her weight. 22 lb and 4 oz maybe? She's 50% for wt and 75% for height this time. I'm guessing she's headed for a growth spurt soon the way she's been packing it in recently.
Med-surg beds and staffing are really tight right now. Although you wouldn't know it from my sitting here blogging would you? I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. But until it does I'll just keep doing my job, one admission at a time and hope that I still have a few beds in the morning and that they clear out tomorrow so tomorrow night goes better!
Oh meant to add that Wesley's grandma is back in the hospital for renal failure this time. She really isn't doing well at all.
Robert is so cute with his little sayings. Mostly it is "I didn't do x". Which generally means he did do it. "I didn't pull snoopy's tail, push Mary, climb the chair and get daddy's (model) car...." ohy. And then when he sees me in scrubs he wants "Mommy to take off my flowers". I think he has his pronouns wrong but it's cute! He also wants mommy to take off her shoes. In fact he really doesn't like for me to wear shoes period.
We went for Mary's 15 month checkup today. If I were a good mommy I would remember her weight. 22 lb and 4 oz maybe? She's 50% for wt and 75% for height this time. I'm guessing she's headed for a growth spurt soon the way she's been packing it in recently.
Med-surg beds and staffing are really tight right now. Although you wouldn't know it from my sitting here blogging would you? I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. But until it does I'll just keep doing my job, one admission at a time and hope that I still have a few beds in the morning and that they clear out tomorrow so tomorrow night goes better!
Oh meant to add that Wesley's grandma is back in the hospital for renal failure this time. She really isn't doing well at all.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Another night....
It seems like the only time I post anymore is when I work nights. It's been a while so it's been a while since I posted. Because when I'm not at work I have more important things to do like keep Mary from falling off the table. Or harvesting crops on facebook. You know, the important things in life! I'm enjoying a little lull here at work, with just sporadic admissions and a little time before I need to make my second rounds and then print and copy the unit census sheets for tomorrow. If you do them too early you have to hand write in the new admissions that you get from then on so you might as well wait until at least 4. But if you wait too long then a bunch of stuff goes wrong at 5 and you are still frantically copying at 7 when the next coordinator comes in. Darned if you do, darned if you don't! It's been a nice week, I've only worked 24 hours (including tonight!) which is fabulous! I've gotten some housework and some baking done and just spent time with the kids! They wear me out, let me tell you. Little crazy kidlets. Especially Mary-she's a wild one. She did develop a runny nose today so maybe her cough thing was post nasal drip. Last night when she woke up coughing I listened to her and didn't hear any wheezing so I guess my psuedo diagnosis of reactive airway junk was inaccurate. But we'll see. She goes Friday for her 15 month checkup.
I remembered something that I forgot to blog about last week. That night from you-know-where 3 weeks ago today when EVERYTHING went wrong, we spent 45 minutes coding a guy who we almost lost. Well, the other day I was doing a meditech thing and happened by him as he was GOING HOME. I hadn't seen him since he had been extubated and out of CCU. I couldn't believe that he was up, walking, normal.... Praise God. I mean we were minutes from calling that code (saying it was over) when we got a pulse back finally-like 3 rounds of shocking and 4 rounds of every med known to mankind. And yes, you do levitate when they shock you-especially when you up the charge. Oh and tonight I heard that the baby which was another part of the horrible night is still alive! I was sure that he wasn't going to make it either. That was a 3.5 hour code...
I remembered something that I forgot to blog about last week. That night from you-know-where 3 weeks ago today when EVERYTHING went wrong, we spent 45 minutes coding a guy who we almost lost. Well, the other day I was doing a meditech thing and happened by him as he was GOING HOME. I hadn't seen him since he had been extubated and out of CCU. I couldn't believe that he was up, walking, normal.... Praise God. I mean we were minutes from calling that code (saying it was over) when we got a pulse back finally-like 3 rounds of shocking and 4 rounds of every med known to mankind. And yes, you do levitate when they shock you-especially when you up the charge. Oh and tonight I heard that the baby which was another part of the horrible night is still alive! I was sure that he wasn't going to make it either. That was a 3.5 hour code...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Not me Monday
Being a good nurse mommy I would have NEVER ever ever let my kids eat cantaloupe that spilled from the container onto my not so clean camper floor. Oh, no, not me!
I would never fish a cigarette butt out of my daughter's mouth with no more than a "that's yucky" and not even a thought that I should have been able to prevent it (it is yucky but does she have to eat EVERYTHING she finds) and no we have not taken up smoking, we were on a public beach and I dare say I was almost the only one that wasn't smoking!
I would certainly not have eaten an entire costco muffin EVERY day for breakfast for the last 3 days while still saying that I want to loose a couple pounds. Nor would I be joining the family in assisting in the demolition of an entire box of chip ahoy cookies over 3 days. No not me.
I would never fish a cigarette butt out of my daughter's mouth with no more than a "that's yucky" and not even a thought that I should have been able to prevent it (it is yucky but does she have to eat EVERYTHING she finds) and no we have not taken up smoking, we were on a public beach and I dare say I was almost the only one that wasn't smoking!
I would certainly not have eaten an entire costco muffin EVERY day for breakfast for the last 3 days while still saying that I want to loose a couple pounds. Nor would I be joining the family in assisting in the demolition of an entire box of chip ahoy cookies over 3 days. No not me.
Salamaters and Muddle Pirate oh My!
We’re back, Mary is a little brown girl and Robert had a blast catching “salamaters” (salamanders) in the lake and seeing the tadpoles and digging in the sand. It was fabulous-well except for Sat pm where it rained ALL AFTERNOON and most of the evening. But even after that we went splashing in the “muddle pirates” (mud puddles) and he had a great time with that too. He basically had a great time doing everything. Todd lake was perfect for us this weekend. The lake, the playset, the paths (2 laps twice a day+outdoor living=good tired kids and dog!).
It was so neat to see Wesley with the kidlets. I don't often get to see him interact this way with them. He spent a lot of time working with Robert on riding his little bike. We're not there yet but getting closer! Plus some vigorous games of pirates (even puppy, fish and turtle {Robert's stuffed animals} joined in-although turtle does not like being a pirate). Plus today he spent a bunch of time with Robert and the "salamaters", crawfish and tadpoles.
Sunday was a gorgeous day, the kids and I were out morning and afternoon at the lake (so was Wes but he had to hang out with Snoopy-she wasn't allowed on the beach). In the morning there were 2 or 3 other families who were in the middle of building this lake with salamanders which they were then digging a cannal so that they could escape back into the real lake. So my kids joined in. Mary mainly to sit in the mud and splash. Robert to ooh and ahh over the "salamaters" and the tadpoles (aren't they cuuuuuuute!-um yeah) and hold them and throw them back into the lake. Those poor "salamaters" I'm sure they're glad the weekend is over, they have been captured and thrown back a ton I'm sure. In the afternoon the whole place was full of families with kids and floaties and cigarettes and beach blankets and more kids. I mean covered. Kids everywhere digging holes, in and out of the water, eating sand, digging ditches, catching salamanders... I have never seen so many happy wiggling boddies. And toys were more or less common property and everyone just joined in whereever they wanted to and it was fun. Mary hung out with another family who had a 1 year old and he hung out with me some and I taught one little girl how to do a dribble castle.... it was just nuts. The lake is tiny and pretty shallow for the swimming area and Robert had no interest in going in (it was kinda cold one day). Mary on the other hand is a mini me and goes wading as far as she can. Crazy girlie.
Mary’s booster seat was in a folding chair with cup holders and she would tear her food into small pieces and push them through the cup holder to the “garbage disposal” (Snoopy) at the other end. That girl! She can be 5 places at once and will eat anything that stays still long enough. She has napped and slept well I can assure you of that. She is just wiped out at nap and bed time. But I think this is the most actual walking she has ever done. She did really well!
Roger and Peggy came for supper last night and it was good to have them up. Roger's mom (granny) hasn't been well and is now in a nursing home and they're having to deal with putting her house up for sale etc. It's a hard decision to make. She was hospitalized Wednesday and Thursday night she pulled out her IV line and they couldn't get it restarted so Roger called Wes to find out if I was working (I was on Peds) and the nurse called me to see if I would come and restart it, which I did. And proceded to tape it like I do for our 3 year olds. Apparently it lasted until she went home the next afternoon so I must have done OK taping it :) I need to take Mary up to see her and get some more pics of them together since Mary is her name sake.
Well better get back to laundry. Just wanted to get this in before I forgot about the salamaters and the muddle pirates :) Can't wait to see him at the beach. He was talking about it the other day and actually said "uncle Rob and aunt Kavitha"!
It was so neat to see Wesley with the kidlets. I don't often get to see him interact this way with them. He spent a lot of time working with Robert on riding his little bike. We're not there yet but getting closer! Plus some vigorous games of pirates (even puppy, fish and turtle {Robert's stuffed animals} joined in-although turtle does not like being a pirate). Plus today he spent a bunch of time with Robert and the "salamaters", crawfish and tadpoles.
Sunday was a gorgeous day, the kids and I were out morning and afternoon at the lake (so was Wes but he had to hang out with Snoopy-she wasn't allowed on the beach). In the morning there were 2 or 3 other families who were in the middle of building this lake with salamanders which they were then digging a cannal so that they could escape back into the real lake. So my kids joined in. Mary mainly to sit in the mud and splash. Robert to ooh and ahh over the "salamaters" and the tadpoles (aren't they cuuuuuuute!-um yeah) and hold them and throw them back into the lake. Those poor "salamaters" I'm sure they're glad the weekend is over, they have been captured and thrown back a ton I'm sure. In the afternoon the whole place was full of families with kids and floaties and cigarettes and beach blankets and more kids. I mean covered. Kids everywhere digging holes, in and out of the water, eating sand, digging ditches, catching salamanders... I have never seen so many happy wiggling boddies. And toys were more or less common property and everyone just joined in whereever they wanted to and it was fun. Mary hung out with another family who had a 1 year old and he hung out with me some and I taught one little girl how to do a dribble castle.... it was just nuts. The lake is tiny and pretty shallow for the swimming area and Robert had no interest in going in (it was kinda cold one day). Mary on the other hand is a mini me and goes wading as far as she can. Crazy girlie.
Mary’s booster seat was in a folding chair with cup holders and she would tear her food into small pieces and push them through the cup holder to the “garbage disposal” (Snoopy) at the other end. That girl! She can be 5 places at once and will eat anything that stays still long enough. She has napped and slept well I can assure you of that. She is just wiped out at nap and bed time. But I think this is the most actual walking she has ever done. She did really well!
Roger and Peggy came for supper last night and it was good to have them up. Roger's mom (granny) hasn't been well and is now in a nursing home and they're having to deal with putting her house up for sale etc. It's a hard decision to make. She was hospitalized Wednesday and Thursday night she pulled out her IV line and they couldn't get it restarted so Roger called Wes to find out if I was working (I was on Peds) and the nurse called me to see if I would come and restart it, which I did. And proceded to tape it like I do for our 3 year olds. Apparently it lasted until she went home the next afternoon so I must have done OK taping it :) I need to take Mary up to see her and get some more pics of them together since Mary is her name sake.
Well better get back to laundry. Just wanted to get this in before I forgot about the salamaters and the muddle pirates :) Can't wait to see him at the beach. He was talking about it the other day and actually said "uncle Rob and aunt Kavitha"!
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Crazy Mary!
Mary is cracking me up this weekend/week! Well until this afternoon-I'll get there in a minute. She figured out how to climb over the sofa yesterday (so up the sofa, over the gate to the office area). sigh. And then on the coffee table. Sigh. I guess I should have figured that she would get this when she can climb the ladder to the playset. Sigh. Oh and evidently she ate some (clean thankfully-I had just changed it out-thanks dad for buying new sand!) sand yesterday while I was hanging clothes on the line 'cause she's been a little sandy butt today-and hasn't been in the sand today IYKWIM. She also feeds her babies (and tried to feed me a bottle today, lol), jabbers non stop and toddles so cutely. She is so adorable!
Yesterday was a good day home with the kids-I actually got a sunburn (oops! wore a tank top instead of my usual short sleeved shirt and the tops of my shoulders and part of my back got it-you can tell where I did spray a part of my back but I mised some) but the kids were fine and took GOOD naps. :). I did a million loads of laundry and hung them out (sheets, towels, clothes, rugs, shower curtain, etc, etc, etc). I was beat and in bed before 10.
Today we went to the wellness center (gym play as Robert calls it!) where I walked/ran 2.75 miles and did some weights. Then Mary was fussy at nap time and at some point was burning up and her temp was 103. So Wesley stayed home with her tonight while Roger and Peggy took Robert to Nanny night. She seems fine when her temp is down-so not sure what is going on with her or what we'll end up doing tomorrow. A lady at church has offered to babysit if need be in the morning so that's a relief. I have to be back at work form 3p-7p to help with the ED meditech go live (they have a meditech inpatient nurse here for the first several days to help floor nurses figure out where to look for their info. But I can always bring her with me for sick day care. I am hoping that she will be fine in the am and all this will be a moot point! I know she's got some teeth comming in so maybe it's a combo of that and the sand :) I called Wes about 8 and she was already in bed and was doing fine. Now I'm sitting here worrying about her, ugh it's so hard to be away from them when they are sick!
Needless to say I didn't get a nap today (Mary napped on me when she did nap and Snoopy wanted in and out and in and out) and luckily I had a coupon for a free iced coffee from starbucks. Wow, that's some potent stuff. I think I should be good for a while with that :) But really, not so tastey and I think origionally would have been $1.75 or $2.75 or something like that. Not worth it!
Well work has been calling so I hope this isn't too disjointed. We're headed away this weekend to Todd lake to camp-so inbetween everything else we have to get ready to do that. I work tonight, 3p-7p tomorrow, 3p-3a thurs and then off, off, off. If I accepted everything people have wanted me to work I would have worked a million hours this week. At this point getting my hours in has not been an issue!
I have been saddened to hear that my best friend from JA lost her dad this week. This sort of thing shouldn't happen to people my age :( I feel so helpless to do anything for her either. So please keep Francine and her mom in your prayers...
Yesterday was a good day home with the kids-I actually got a sunburn (oops! wore a tank top instead of my usual short sleeved shirt and the tops of my shoulders and part of my back got it-you can tell where I did spray a part of my back but I mised some) but the kids were fine and took GOOD naps. :). I did a million loads of laundry and hung them out (sheets, towels, clothes, rugs, shower curtain, etc, etc, etc). I was beat and in bed before 10.
Today we went to the wellness center (gym play as Robert calls it!) where I walked/ran 2.75 miles and did some weights. Then Mary was fussy at nap time and at some point was burning up and her temp was 103. So Wesley stayed home with her tonight while Roger and Peggy took Robert to Nanny night. She seems fine when her temp is down-so not sure what is going on with her or what we'll end up doing tomorrow. A lady at church has offered to babysit if need be in the morning so that's a relief. I have to be back at work form 3p-7p to help with the ED meditech go live (they have a meditech inpatient nurse here for the first several days to help floor nurses figure out where to look for their info. But I can always bring her with me for sick day care. I am hoping that she will be fine in the am and all this will be a moot point! I know she's got some teeth comming in so maybe it's a combo of that and the sand :) I called Wes about 8 and she was already in bed and was doing fine. Now I'm sitting here worrying about her, ugh it's so hard to be away from them when they are sick!
Needless to say I didn't get a nap today (Mary napped on me when she did nap and Snoopy wanted in and out and in and out) and luckily I had a coupon for a free iced coffee from starbucks. Wow, that's some potent stuff. I think I should be good for a while with that :) But really, not so tastey and I think origionally would have been $1.75 or $2.75 or something like that. Not worth it!
Well work has been calling so I hope this isn't too disjointed. We're headed away this weekend to Todd lake to camp-so inbetween everything else we have to get ready to do that. I work tonight, 3p-7p tomorrow, 3p-3a thurs and then off, off, off. If I accepted everything people have wanted me to work I would have worked a million hours this week. At this point getting my hours in has not been an issue!
I have been saddened to hear that my best friend from JA lost her dad this week. This sort of thing shouldn't happen to people my age :( I feel so helpless to do anything for her either. So please keep Francine and her mom in your prayers...
Friday, June 05, 2009
Thankful Thursdays
Since I haven't gone to bed yet I declare that it is still Thursday. So there :)
-For Mr HVAC finally being finished up today/yesterday (hip hip horray!)
-For a better night-Sun at the end was pretty crazy-I forgot to call in PACU (ooops!!!!!!!!!!) when I called in OR and I had a death at 6:30. Tonight has been busy (21 admissions!) but not horrible. I'll take it! I left work almost crying Sat and Sun so hopefully today I won't!
-For my sweet hubby :)
-For the cutest kids ever!
-For a great hospital to work at.
Um, for sleep-bring it on! I'm signed up to go to an appreciation breakfast for the meditech group-it's from 8:30-9:30. I don't know if I'll still be alive by then, I guess I'll see.
I wish I could tell you cute things about the kids but in reality I only saw them for supper last night. So I guess Denee is the expert on them this week!
-For Mr HVAC finally being finished up today/yesterday (hip hip horray!)
-For a better night-Sun at the end was pretty crazy-I forgot to call in PACU (ooops!!!!!!!!!!) when I called in OR and I had a death at 6:30. Tonight has been busy (21 admissions!) but not horrible. I'll take it! I left work almost crying Sat and Sun so hopefully today I won't!
-For my sweet hubby :)
-For the cutest kids ever!
-For a great hospital to work at.
Um, for sleep-bring it on! I'm signed up to go to an appreciation breakfast for the meditech group-it's from 8:30-9:30. I don't know if I'll still be alive by then, I guess I'll see.
I wish I could tell you cute things about the kids but in reality I only saw them for supper last night. So I guess Denee is the expert on them this week!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
TGIS!
I was thinking this was my last night as a coordinator this week but I work thurs night too. But I am off tomorrow and don't work until 3p-7p on Tues on Peds-which considering that peds is closed for no census tonight I don't think I'm going to count on definitely having to work Tues-which is fine and dandy with me! I start orientation with IV therapy this week-I'm going to work thurs am (7-11) with them and then rest some in the afternoon before working thurs night as coordinator. Then I'm on peds this weekend to cover for a friend. But for now TGIS (thank God it's Sunday) well almost mon...
Mr HVAC is supposed to come tomorrow. Do you think he'll be there? Do you think he'll finish? Stay tuned... I guess I'll start out sleeping on the couch until he gets there. Last time he arrived around 11, I had been asleep since 8:30ish and The View was watching me when I woke up (I had been watching the Today show). I also desperately need to get the laundry done and housework too. The kids and I got groceries on Sat (while Wesley stayed home waiting for Mr HVAC who - surprise - didn't show up and didn't call. ARGH!) so that is done.
I have realized this weekend why I had children. I spent some time outside this afternoon with the kids in the hamock with Mary and Robert was pushing me. BLISS :) It makes up for all the tantrums and poopy diapers! I'm begining to think he is NEVER going to potty train.
I was going to blog about last night but I don't think I want to think about it. It was horrible and I didn't want to come back but I did. And I slept really well today so that's good. And tonight so far has been fine. :) Evidently since I am blogging. And my ILs felt bad for me so they grilled steaks, I did french fries and salad and they cut a cantalope and we ate outside. It was fabulous :) Until I had to leave! I love being able to hang out outside with the kids. Mary spent a bunch of time climbing the deck stairs and then calling to be rescued. Robert rode the Buck around. Then Wes' parents got home and made his a house out of a dishwasher box so they played with that a while. Mary took a long nap-apparently she fell asleep on her way home from church (12-12:30ish) and slept until I woke her up at 4:30. Wowzers!
Mr HVAC is supposed to come tomorrow. Do you think he'll be there? Do you think he'll finish? Stay tuned... I guess I'll start out sleeping on the couch until he gets there. Last time he arrived around 11, I had been asleep since 8:30ish and The View was watching me when I woke up (I had been watching the Today show). I also desperately need to get the laundry done and housework too. The kids and I got groceries on Sat (while Wesley stayed home waiting for Mr HVAC who - surprise - didn't show up and didn't call. ARGH!) so that is done.
I have realized this weekend why I had children. I spent some time outside this afternoon with the kids in the hamock with Mary and Robert was pushing me. BLISS :) It makes up for all the tantrums and poopy diapers! I'm begining to think he is NEVER going to potty train.
I was going to blog about last night but I don't think I want to think about it. It was horrible and I didn't want to come back but I did. And I slept really well today so that's good. And tonight so far has been fine. :) Evidently since I am blogging. And my ILs felt bad for me so they grilled steaks, I did french fries and salad and they cut a cantalope and we ate outside. It was fabulous :) Until I had to leave! I love being able to hang out outside with the kids. Mary spent a bunch of time climbing the deck stairs and then calling to be rescued. Robert rode the Buck around. Then Wes' parents got home and made his a house out of a dishwasher box so they played with that a while. Mary took a long nap-apparently she fell asleep on her way home from church (12-12:30ish) and slept until I woke her up at 4:30. Wowzers!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thankful Thursdays
Every night when I go to bed I turn off the christmas lights in the kids room and just exault over their sweet sleeping bodies (after making sure they are breathing of course!). I love taking that moment to be thankful for their lives and to pray protection over them through the night and the next day. The days are so hectic-when they are awake I don't appreciate them as much as I should sometimes but in those quiet moments I see the real them. And thank God that they are asleep!!!!!!!!
It's the same way with thankful Thursdays! It gives me a minute to reflect on the truly good in my life.
I am thankful for a job-and a meaningful job. My mom always prayed for "work to do and strength to do it". I get it now. I'm back on Peds this evening and it's really nice to be actually taking care of patients again, although as nursing coordinator I feel like I'm taking care of nurses and that's really special too.
For a good babysitter.
For the lunch that Wesley and I were able to have today. I went ahead and took the kids to Denee's this am and went to the gym, library, to work to work on a project, to lunch with Wesley and then back to work. We spent over an hour at Wood Grill just talking (OK a lot of eating too-I'm no where near hungry yet!)
For my garden-it's really thriving with the rain
For my kids who have keen minds and strong bodies. Maybe a little too keen and strong some days... Mary learned to climb the playset yesterday and a chair today, but I've seen enough kids with disabilities to know that I am blessed!
For my kids' Grandparents! Oh-Grammy and Grampy, Robert says you are comming tomorrow :) Did you know?
It's the same way with thankful Thursdays! It gives me a minute to reflect on the truly good in my life.
I am thankful for a job-and a meaningful job. My mom always prayed for "work to do and strength to do it". I get it now. I'm back on Peds this evening and it's really nice to be actually taking care of patients again, although as nursing coordinator I feel like I'm taking care of nurses and that's really special too.
For a good babysitter.
For the lunch that Wesley and I were able to have today. I went ahead and took the kids to Denee's this am and went to the gym, library, to work to work on a project, to lunch with Wesley and then back to work. We spent over an hour at Wood Grill just talking (OK a lot of eating too-I'm no where near hungry yet!)
For my garden-it's really thriving with the rain
For my kids who have keen minds and strong bodies. Maybe a little too keen and strong some days... Mary learned to climb the playset yesterday and a chair today, but I've seen enough kids with disabilities to know that I am blessed!
For my kids' Grandparents! Oh-Grammy and Grampy, Robert says you are comming tomorrow :) Did you know?
Monday, May 25, 2009
Menu Plan Monday!
tonight-supper at Clif and Hollies: I took home made choc chip cookies and a salad, they had hamburgers, potato salad, chips, pasta salad... mmm!
tomorrow-supper at Nanny's (I think she's making taco salad)
wed-pork BBQ sandwiches. I have the pork cooking right now-it takes a while-but I think it will be done tomorrow and I'll just heat it up
thurs-meatloaf
fri-tacos
sat-
L) leftovers/sandwiches
D) grilled chicken
sun-
L) pork BBQ sandwiches again
D) pizza
tomorrow-supper at Nanny's (I think she's making taco salad)
wed-pork BBQ sandwiches. I have the pork cooking right now-it takes a while-but I think it will be done tomorrow and I'll just heat it up
thurs-meatloaf
fri-tacos
sat-
L) leftovers/sandwiches
D) grilled chicken
sun-
L) pork BBQ sandwiches again
D) pizza
Grammy and Grampy!
We had a fun weekend with Grammy and Grampy (my parents) and visits from Aunt Margaret and Grandma Reinhold. The kids have played, played, played outside, upstairs, and everywhere and are worn to a frazzle today-they are pooped and in bed-and they took good naps this afternoon! We got the flower beds plus a joint garden with Roger and Peggy planted this weekend and the flower beds mulched so I feel like we are well on the way to spring. Dad also burried the drain pipes (yeah)! Wesley had found a John Deere Buck ride on thing at a 2nd hand store next to where he works a few weeks ago-it was missing the battery and only $15 and he and dad got it working this weekend and it was a HUGE hit. I wasn't sure he would like it-he's a little odd about the riding mower when it's running but he has gone everywhere on it! Mary walks along behind like a little puppy. They've also really enoyed the playset-the rockwall and slide. Mary has gone down the slide several times (with someone at the top to start her and someone at the bottom to catch her). And Robert has mastered the rock wall. I love watching them outside! This week I'm not scheduled much (I had kept it open in case we were doing Meditech stuff but it doesn't look like it) so I think I'm just going to enjoy some time off. I'm scheduled some meetings tomorrow and then 3-11 thursday on Peds and 7p-7a sat and sun as nursing coordinator. The kids are scheduled at the babysitter all day tomorrow and wed and then thurs pm-so I'll have to decide what to do with them-I can't decide whether to leave them and catch some stuff up around here or what. I'll see how long I end up at work tomorrow and then go from there!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Want to be "here we are!"
Robert's sayings are so cute! We were about 45 min from being home from our camping trip (we got back last evening around 5:50 pm) and he all of a sudden stretched his legs and said (whined) "want to be 'here we are'". So then I made the mistake of telling him that we were almost 'here we are', so he said that the rest of the time! Our trip was fun-it certainly had its challening moments but it went well. The kids took a couple days to settle into the sleeping arrangements and Mary and I have had horrible allergies to something in the camper-poor Mary would wake up with a horrible congested cough several times each night-despite 5 mg of claritin every day. Wes' mom has been sick on and off for forever and she felt poorly on and off which made Roger's job of trying to keep up with her, their 2 dogs and my 2 kids pretty hard. (We subsidize their trip as help with childcare while Wesley is at all the seminars). We took Snoopy to the kennel so we didn't have to keep up with her too and so we could do some stuff with the group.
Sat the outing (there's always a photo op outing) was at a petting zoo-well here at infinity acres.
http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=49414
http://www.alpacanation.com/farmsandbreeders/03_viewfarm.asp?name=14575
In addition to the alpacas and what I refered to as the poodle pacas (they had some groomed into poodle shapes-they were hilarious!) they had a sugar glider, some critter from venezuala called Taz, fowl, minature goats, pigs, miniture horses, a miniture cow, peacocks, more alpakas, a pond with fish that you could feed... plus kid play house! It was a perfect outing. We had a picnic lunch there and then R+P, the kids and I went back to attempt a nap. I think R+P got a nap. The kids did play quietly for an hour and then I took them to the playground at the campground. It was good just to spend time with them! When I have pics to post I'll tell more about our trip. This page has some pics of the campground including the playground.
http://www.ci.reidsville.nc.us/lakereidsville.htm
more later....
Sat the outing (there's always a photo op outing) was at a petting zoo-well here at infinity acres.
http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=49414
http://www.alpacanation.com/farmsandbreeders/03_viewfarm.asp?name=14575
In addition to the alpacas and what I refered to as the poodle pacas (they had some groomed into poodle shapes-they were hilarious!) they had a sugar glider, some critter from venezuala called Taz, fowl, minature goats, pigs, miniture horses, a miniture cow, peacocks, more alpakas, a pond with fish that you could feed... plus kid play house! It was a perfect outing. We had a picnic lunch there and then R+P, the kids and I went back to attempt a nap. I think R+P got a nap. The kids did play quietly for an hour and then I took them to the playground at the campground. It was good just to spend time with them! When I have pics to post I'll tell more about our trip. This page has some pics of the campground including the playground.
http://www.ci.reidsville.nc.us/lakereidsville.htm
more later....
Monday, May 11, 2009
Another night....
Well, another night almost done. I've finished copying over the papers (the unit census where we write what is going on with the patient and update) and am waiting for the next coordinator to come in so I can go home! Whoot! It was a busy night-from 7p-3a it was nuts and then it quieted down and has been good since then. I stuck for lots of IV's/blood, lots of admissions, lots of just general stuff. I had a good mother's day-the best part was that the kids napped at the same time and I had some time in the hammock and curled up on the couch! Robert made me a card and bracelet in toddler church (how cool is that!?!), we had a family lunch with Wes' parents, aunt and uncle and grandma (the first Furr BBQ of the season), Wesley went to Philip's graduation party... just stuff.... if Robert had slept past 7 it would have been perfect :)
Mary is totally walking-almost running-even outside. Her little toddle is SO CUTE. We went to a mother-daughter banquet Sat eve and she was the cutest thing. I'll try to upload a pic later. She got down and was running with the big kids and then blew kisses to all the matriarch ladies and loved all over them. They looked like they wanted to eat her up with a spoon! I know I did! Sat the kids and I went shopping and while we were in Walmart and I was buying canned fruits and veggies Robert said "mmm, yummy, thank you Mommy for buying yummy food". So cute! He's such a sweetie!
Mary is totally walking-almost running-even outside. Her little toddle is SO CUTE. We went to a mother-daughter banquet Sat eve and she was the cutest thing. I'll try to upload a pic later. She got down and was running with the big kids and then blew kisses to all the matriarch ladies and loved all over them. They looked like they wanted to eat her up with a spoon! I know I did! Sat the kids and I went shopping and while we were in Walmart and I was buying canned fruits and veggies Robert said "mmm, yummy, thank you Mommy for buying yummy food". So cute! He's such a sweetie!
Thursday, May 07, 2009
middle of the night ramblings... :)
It's been a quick week again at Lake Harrisonburg. Between rain showers we've had drizzle. My seeds must have drowned because all I see growing are weeds-not the seeds I planted. Sigh. The kids are doing OK. We've had to go back to the basics of 1-2-3 magic with Robert, I checked the VHS out of the library for a quick refresher course and I think it's helping. Mary is starting to get fiesty too. Mostly still feeding the dog but also a tendency towards the toilet and the dog water and the toilet bowl brush. I've (only) worked 32ish hours this week but I feel like its been more-I think going back and forth between night and day has killed the week-you loose a day sleeping. And the house looks like a tornado hit it but instead of cleaning it this afternoon while I was off and the kids were at the babysitter I listened to NPR and napped :) Nothing like listening to "the story" to put you to sleep-it's so soothing!
I worked this morning doing meditech tracers-we're basically following meds, blood transfusions and orders through various departments to make sure everything is documenting right and flowing right and that nurses/pharmacists are working right. It's a patient safety initiative our little meditech team for the next month. Then we go back to our reguarily scheduled jobs-whatever that is! Next week I'm straight coordinator (someone is on vacation) so I won't be doing meditech at all. Although I do have crisis intervention training one day which sounds interesting-like how to divert people who are going bersick or something. They say to dress comfy 'cause it's active.
For the next 6 week schedule I am scheduled nursing coordinator, peds and orienting to IV therapy. I figure that the schedule after that I'll work coordinator, peds, IV and orient to float pool (nurses that work on any inpatient non-specialty unit). And then maybe I can just work somewhere, somehow :) I am happy that I'm still getting scheduled on Peds some. That will be so nice to still be there.
This guy is comming tomorrow to install our new HVAC system for the upstairs (I was going to keep it a surprise mom but I just can't!). He should be done Sun :) We have a whole new unit (so we'll have 2 units) plus an air handler and vents and all that good stuff. I'm so excited! Then we're talking about getting the rest of the upstairs drywalled and starting to work on that. For now the thermostat will be in the finished room and then we'll move it out when we get the rest of the upstairs done. So no more window units or heaters for you guys! And there goes our tax refund!
Our weekend is shaping up to be busy! Everyone keep your fingers crossed that tomorrow afternoon it will a) be nice and b) my kids and Caleb will be in super fabulous moods and we can do a photo shoot of all 3 of them individually and together-you know since we left it for the last minute and all. (So mom, your present is going to be a little late...). So family over tomorrow, mother-daughter banquet at Briery Branch Sat night (it will be so fun to take Mary!), Sun it sounds like R+P and us are hosting a BBQ for lunch for Nanny and then Clif and Hollie are doing a supper thing (but I'm going to work). Plus our friend Philip graduates from his program and they're having a party for him.... and the camper needs to be gotten ready for next weekend. And our lawn is like 2 feet tall. And the weeds have taken over the flower bed.... I'm tired just thinking of all this. I MUST clean tomorrow while the kids are at Denee's!
I have made it to the gym twice this week so far. I ran 3 miles one day and 2 today (at 5.5 mph). My knees are a little sore between that and all the stairs I do at work. So I don't think I'll do more than 2-3 miles at a time at this point. I need my knees!
I worked this morning doing meditech tracers-we're basically following meds, blood transfusions and orders through various departments to make sure everything is documenting right and flowing right and that nurses/pharmacists are working right. It's a patient safety initiative our little meditech team for the next month. Then we go back to our reguarily scheduled jobs-whatever that is! Next week I'm straight coordinator (someone is on vacation) so I won't be doing meditech at all. Although I do have crisis intervention training one day which sounds interesting-like how to divert people who are going bersick or something. They say to dress comfy 'cause it's active.
For the next 6 week schedule I am scheduled nursing coordinator, peds and orienting to IV therapy. I figure that the schedule after that I'll work coordinator, peds, IV and orient to float pool (nurses that work on any inpatient non-specialty unit). And then maybe I can just work somewhere, somehow :) I am happy that I'm still getting scheduled on Peds some. That will be so nice to still be there.
This guy is comming tomorrow to install our new HVAC system for the upstairs (I was going to keep it a surprise mom but I just can't!). He should be done Sun :) We have a whole new unit (so we'll have 2 units) plus an air handler and vents and all that good stuff. I'm so excited! Then we're talking about getting the rest of the upstairs drywalled and starting to work on that. For now the thermostat will be in the finished room and then we'll move it out when we get the rest of the upstairs done. So no more window units or heaters for you guys! And there goes our tax refund!
Our weekend is shaping up to be busy! Everyone keep your fingers crossed that tomorrow afternoon it will a) be nice and b) my kids and Caleb will be in super fabulous moods and we can do a photo shoot of all 3 of them individually and together-you know since we left it for the last minute and all. (So mom, your present is going to be a little late...). So family over tomorrow, mother-daughter banquet at Briery Branch Sat night (it will be so fun to take Mary!), Sun it sounds like R+P and us are hosting a BBQ for lunch for Nanny and then Clif and Hollie are doing a supper thing (but I'm going to work). Plus our friend Philip graduates from his program and they're having a party for him.... and the camper needs to be gotten ready for next weekend. And our lawn is like 2 feet tall. And the weeds have taken over the flower bed.... I'm tired just thinking of all this. I MUST clean tomorrow while the kids are at Denee's!
I have made it to the gym twice this week so far. I ran 3 miles one day and 2 today (at 5.5 mph). My knees are a little sore between that and all the stairs I do at work. So I don't think I'll do more than 2-3 miles at a time at this point. I need my knees!
Friday, May 01, 2009
May!
I can't believe it's May already. Camping weather here we come! We're headed to Eden, NC (home of the friendliest people you ever want to meet) for the argus collectors group this month (Roger and Peggy will join us to help with the kids-Wesley gets sucked into Argo-land so otherwise it would just be me and the kids) and then the next weekend mom and dad will be here. Robert will be super excited to see them (as will we all!). Every few days he says "Grammy and Grampy comming soon, comming tomorrow". Not a question either, it is a factual statement! Lol. He loves his grammy and grampy! He's been carrying around the box that his air bed is in recently-he's all excited about his "Pooh bed for beach and vacations".
Tonight is my first solo night as a nursing coordinator. So far things are pretty calm. I'm keeping a close eye on the ED's census and it looks good so far. I've got my fingers crossed for a smooth night. It sounds like it was a crazy day for poor Brenda who worked the dayshift.
Mary is walking really well now-still has some trouble outside (especially when faced with an energetic pug!) . She has also really taken to her dolly. She calls it Baby and loves baby, holds baby, kisses baby, feeds baby (yes Mom I bought her a feeding set for it!). Today I was trying to get her to take a nap so I could take a nap and she started kissing me all over. It was sooo cute. She is so different from Robert. I still have never gotten a real kiss from Robert-he'll lay his cheek against mine if I ask for a kiss. Mary does the whole "mwah" kiss thing-and blows kisses too. Robert has been sweet today too-we just had a really good day. I made him a sandwich with left over pork loin and cheese with mayo and mustard for lunch and he kept going "wow, yummy sandwich-peanutbutter, meat and cheese (I don't know where he got the PB from lol). Mary had sunbutter and jelly and I had sunbutter and mayo and banana. I made bread last night so it was fresh and yummy! The kids ate and ate!
The day started out kinda cool and then warmed up in the afternoon so we were able to go out and play and "photosenthesize" as I put it. I wish the lettuce and beans I planted the Sunday would pop up and photosenthesize too-I'm begining to think I did something wrong :) I think some of the green beans may be comming up-I guess we'll see what happens.
Tonight is my first solo night as a nursing coordinator. So far things are pretty calm. I'm keeping a close eye on the ED's census and it looks good so far. I've got my fingers crossed for a smooth night. It sounds like it was a crazy day for poor Brenda who worked the dayshift.
Mary is walking really well now-still has some trouble outside (especially when faced with an energetic pug!) . She has also really taken to her dolly. She calls it Baby and loves baby, holds baby, kisses baby, feeds baby (yes Mom I bought her a feeding set for it!). Today I was trying to get her to take a nap so I could take a nap and she started kissing me all over. It was sooo cute. She is so different from Robert. I still have never gotten a real kiss from Robert-he'll lay his cheek against mine if I ask for a kiss. Mary does the whole "mwah" kiss thing-and blows kisses too. Robert has been sweet today too-we just had a really good day. I made him a sandwich with left over pork loin and cheese with mayo and mustard for lunch and he kept going "wow, yummy sandwich-peanutbutter, meat and cheese (I don't know where he got the PB from lol). Mary had sunbutter and jelly and I had sunbutter and mayo and banana. I made bread last night so it was fresh and yummy! The kids ate and ate!
The day started out kinda cool and then warmed up in the afternoon so we were able to go out and play and "photosenthesize" as I put it. I wish the lettuce and beans I planted the Sunday would pop up and photosenthesize too-I'm begining to think I did something wrong :) I think some of the green beans may be comming up-I guess we'll see what happens.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunshine!
I've been off for 4 whole days and I feel like a new person! :) It's been great being outside with the kids. Although Robert is becoming rather challenging. Basically directly defying anything I say. Today it was repeatedly kicking Snoopy-going to time out-coming out and doing it again. Argh! I think he is way overtired. He didn't nap and with being outside this afternoon he was wiped out. Snoopy's vet visit went OK. She's the same weight she was last year-so about 3-5 lbs overweight. So tomorrow it's back to work-8-5 tomorrow and some thursday and then night shift fri and sat for a coworker.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Kids update!
I decided not to throw the cute kid stuff in with my other post :) Robert's favorite book at the moment? "the percolated puppy" (perky little puppy). LOL. It is hilarious to hear him call it a percolated puppy. I feel like I did something to the puppy and turned it into coffee. He can already recite huge chunks of it.
The kids have NOT been happy with how much I've worked this week (after tonight it will be oh 42ish hours) and cry as Wesley pulls them out of my arms to take them to Denee's while I sleep. Total mommy guilt here! I'll be SO glad to be working less after this! I miss my kids.
I was telling Mary at supper the other day to not feed Snoopy (I know the vet is NOT going to be happy with her weight when he sees her tomorrow!). Robert looks up and says "Mary, that's one" in my voice. (We count with Robert; that's 1, that's 2, that's 3-time out. ROTFL.) Mary's fatal attraction is Snoopy's water bowl (as was Robert's at this age!) a couple days ago I saw her crawling towards it shaking her head "no" and saying, "no, no, no". She's walking more but still not fully walking everywhere. Silly girl :) She has also learned to trade stuff with Robert (which Robert still hasn't figured out) she'll take his train and he'll be crying over it and she'll hand him a car and he's all happy. There's a smart girlie!
Robert has graduated to being able to play outside without me-with me watching from the glass door and hauling him back inside if he gets out of my sight. That has been so nice! I have a chance to do some supper prep or nurse Mary or something while he's outside. THere's days when it's warm enough for him but not warm enough for me to want to sit outside or haul Mary out.
The kids have NOT been happy with how much I've worked this week (after tonight it will be oh 42ish hours) and cry as Wesley pulls them out of my arms to take them to Denee's while I sleep. Total mommy guilt here! I'll be SO glad to be working less after this! I miss my kids.
I was telling Mary at supper the other day to not feed Snoopy (I know the vet is NOT going to be happy with her weight when he sees her tomorrow!). Robert looks up and says "Mary, that's one" in my voice. (We count with Robert; that's 1, that's 2, that's 3-time out. ROTFL.) Mary's fatal attraction is Snoopy's water bowl (as was Robert's at this age!) a couple days ago I saw her crawling towards it shaking her head "no" and saying, "no, no, no". She's walking more but still not fully walking everywhere. Silly girl :) She has also learned to trade stuff with Robert (which Robert still hasn't figured out) she'll take his train and he'll be crying over it and she'll hand him a car and he's all happy. There's a smart girlie!
Robert has graduated to being able to play outside without me-with me watching from the glass door and hauling him back inside if he gets out of my sight. That has been so nice! I have a chance to do some supper prep or nurse Mary or something while he's outside. THere's days when it's warm enough for him but not warm enough for me to want to sit outside or haul Mary out.
Death and Life.... in God's hands
Squeamish alert-this post is all about the dying part of my job-I need to journal it somewhere. So if you don't like stuff like this then pass over this entry......
This new job (nursing coordinator) has its rougher spots-mainly in the fact that I see every dead person from the hospital AND all the medical examiner cases for H'burg and Rockingham county. Needless to say it is a rare day that I don't spend some time down in the morgue-which apparently is the lowest tech morgue around per the organ donation people! I guess the new hospital's will be more up to date. I feel so helpless sometimes talking to families. Some go well-the person was older, they had had a good life, the family was fairly prepared. And then you get the ones where none of that is the case. Working with the medical examiner has been interesting too-he gets called for any suspicious deaths, homicides, suicides etc. But this all is absolutely NOT my favorite part of my job. I'm not sure I had seen more than 3 dead people in my whole life before last month and I've seen 6 or more since then. Ugh. The other coordinators say it gets easier, you get numb-er maybe or you have to learn to distance yourself a little. But let me tell you I come home and hold my sweetie and my babies so tight and pray to God that nothing ever happens to them. And then I wake up and pray some more-for us and for those families who are hurting so badly. I will say one thing-the families who know God are so much more at peace than those who don't. It is amazing to watch. They talk about the hope that they have in Jesus and that they will see their loved one again and that the person is free from pain. I am so thankfull that I too have that reassurance-do you?
Tonight is my last night of orientation. Yikes!
This new job (nursing coordinator) has its rougher spots-mainly in the fact that I see every dead person from the hospital AND all the medical examiner cases for H'burg and Rockingham county. Needless to say it is a rare day that I don't spend some time down in the morgue-which apparently is the lowest tech morgue around per the organ donation people! I guess the new hospital's will be more up to date. I feel so helpless sometimes talking to families. Some go well-the person was older, they had had a good life, the family was fairly prepared. And then you get the ones where none of that is the case. Working with the medical examiner has been interesting too-he gets called for any suspicious deaths, homicides, suicides etc. But this all is absolutely NOT my favorite part of my job. I'm not sure I had seen more than 3 dead people in my whole life before last month and I've seen 6 or more since then. Ugh. The other coordinators say it gets easier, you get numb-er maybe or you have to learn to distance yourself a little. But let me tell you I come home and hold my sweetie and my babies so tight and pray to God that nothing ever happens to them. And then I wake up and pray some more-for us and for those families who are hurting so badly. I will say one thing-the families who know God are so much more at peace than those who don't. It is amazing to watch. They talk about the hope that they have in Jesus and that they will see their loved one again and that the person is free from pain. I am so thankfull that I too have that reassurance-do you?
Tonight is my last night of orientation. Yikes!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
so busy!
These weeks are going by too fast! We were all under the weather last week and then we are ramping up for go live this week plus the end of orientation. This is my second night shift orientation and I have to say that I LOVE night shift coordinator! Love, love, love it! So much more what I was expecting to do/be. Today we were up and at em all day-took the kids to the bike store and then to walmart (bought Robert a bike with training wheels at Walmart!), then home for lunch and nap and then spent the afternoon outside. So I was worried that I would be so tired tonight, but it has been fine. I feel fantastic. AND with the kids and Wesley at church I'll be able to sleep, sleep, sleep :) I think I'm going to sleep upstairs today so the kids don't find me. Wesley found that the old camper has some more water dammage (we should have sold it last fall but he didn't get it fixed to his satisfaction-err). I finished clearing out the debris from under the peach tree while the kids played outside, so that's another job done. The house looks like a tornado hit it but oh well. And I need to plant some stuff outside but that will have to wait too! This week I work again night shift tonight and then 9p-1am Tues night (before go live) and then 7p-7a Wed and Thurs. Those are my last days (nights) of orientation and then I am on my own. I'll be continuing to work meditech for another month doing some audits and then will need to see what to mix in with nursing coordinator to fill in the rest of my time (I'm only working 1 12 hour shift/week unless convering for vacations etc).
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Easter
I know, it's been 10 days. What a crazy, stupid week. We've all been sick and I've worked a ton-and this new job is throwing me for a loop every time. Parts of it I really like, and parts of it not so much. I'm just not used to feeling like I don't know what I'm doing! Argh. We finished up teaching this week and have a week of catch up before go live next Tuesday (ack) which coincides with my last week of orientation (ackkkkkkkkkkkkkk!). I do my first night shift orientation Wed, and then work nights this weekend (Sat and Sun) and then 2 next week over go live. I will survive.... I have to!
The kids very much enjoyed their Easter. Thanks to a mix up at work where they forgot to tell me that a meeting for the nursing coordinators was canceled I had some extra shopping time without the kids on Friday. I did hear from my boss that they will be paying me the manditory 2 hours that they pay if you aren't called and told not to come. I ended up finding a kitchen on clearance for $20 (very cheap in every sense of the word) and made some felt playfood for Robert's basket. It was a big hit. The 2 of them cooking together are adorable. Mary got a feeding set for her doll, a pair of pink sunglasses and a play cell phone (the cellphone was the hit!). I got Robert some art supplies (pipe cleaners, pom poms, googley eyes, foam stickers) before I thought of the playfood. They also got books from Nanny and a basket of stuff from Roger and Peggy. We had a nice afternoon at Nanny's. The kids played outside with their "cousins"-bubbles and ball and just ran around. It was a nice afternoon. And the kids are tired and sound asleep!
Our trip to old surber station last weekend was wonderful. It was so beautiful and peaceful and fun there. The house was gorgeous and we had a great time hiking along the creek and just hanging out. I definitely want to go back soon! Here's the website for the house:
http://www.surberstation.com/index.html
The kids very much enjoyed their Easter. Thanks to a mix up at work where they forgot to tell me that a meeting for the nursing coordinators was canceled I had some extra shopping time without the kids on Friday. I did hear from my boss that they will be paying me the manditory 2 hours that they pay if you aren't called and told not to come. I ended up finding a kitchen on clearance for $20 (very cheap in every sense of the word) and made some felt playfood for Robert's basket. It was a big hit. The 2 of them cooking together are adorable. Mary got a feeding set for her doll, a pair of pink sunglasses and a play cell phone (the cellphone was the hit!). I got Robert some art supplies (pipe cleaners, pom poms, googley eyes, foam stickers) before I thought of the playfood. They also got books from Nanny and a basket of stuff from Roger and Peggy. We had a nice afternoon at Nanny's. The kids played outside with their "cousins"-bubbles and ball and just ran around. It was a nice afternoon. And the kids are tired and sound asleep!
Our trip to old surber station last weekend was wonderful. It was so beautiful and peaceful and fun there. The house was gorgeous and we had a great time hiking along the creek and just hanging out. I definitely want to go back soon! Here's the website for the house:
http://www.surberstation.com/index.html
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