You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
-C.S. Lewis

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Should I stay or should I go?

My current place of employment has been going through some negative changes lately. Don’t get me wrong, I feel blessed to have a job at all. However, the hospital is seeking Magnet status, and while this sounds nice in theory, in reality, it means that each week the hospital adds five more minutes of charting [...]

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Torn

My son is sitting between my feet on the floor, waving his red plastic telephone around, chewing on it, squealing to himself, and slamming it into his sister’s toys which are scattered on the carpet.

I feel pulled in about seven different directions at this point in my life.

Right now, I work on a unit that [...]

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Bare minimum

Wow. Being a mom to two kids is hard. Really hard.
I need to start rising earlier in the morning so I can have a few moments to myself without a child on my lap.
Something in my routine needs to change.

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Local moms? Bueller? …Bueller?

I took both kids to story hour at our tiny library last week. The librarians were shocked, delighted, and a little flustered to see us, because we were the first to show up, in FOUR WEEKS of story hour times being posted around town.
So Jubilee had a nice one-on-one story with the librarian, practically sitting [...]

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On working

First swine flu (oh sorry, H1N1) patient last night. And already I’m convinced that I have it. Guess I will know for sure within 1-5 days (incubation period) whether or not the body aches and headache are just the typical I-worked-13-hours-yesterday-with-only-one-break feelings.
Also, what is up with all my coworkers trying to guilt me into working [...]

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