So, after my long rambling post, here is the gist of it: I am certainly not in any rush to work more hours. Mainly, my concern is getting back into a nursing specialty where I belong, before having another child. And we do plan to have at least one more biological child, and possibly adopt [...]
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Plan of action
Posted in Motherhood, budget, family, work on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A person’s a person, no matter how small”
Posted in Motherhood, budget, family, work on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been having a work-family crisis, which apparently I am very prone to. I have been working PRN on a Peds unit for the past year, and it has been a great balance while pregnant and newly postpartum. However, the past month or so I have been very restless. Wanting to have a work [...]
Should I stay or should I go?
Posted in Motherhood, work on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Torn
Posted in Motherhood, work on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Bare minimum
Posted in Motherhood on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Local moms? Bueller? …Bueller?
Posted in Motherhood, homeschool on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
On working
Posted in Motherhood, breastfeeding, budget, tired, work on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Where do we fit in?
Posted in Motherhood, homeschool on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Went to local homeschool group for second time yesterday. Didn’t much like it, although my daughter loved getting to play with some little girls for a change. The moms all hung out at a picnic table away from the play area, all but one other mom who was old-fashioned like me and seemed to agree [...]
Things I don’t like my 3-year-old to say…
Posted in Motherhood on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hold still, Mama! I’m just trying to touch your eardrum!
A Good Day
Posted in Motherhood, family, work on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today it is pouring down rain, and thundering, with the lights blinking off and on now and then. Thank goodness this laptop runs for a while on battery power. Eli is asleep in his crib, for his second nap of the day even though it’s only noon. …Scratch that, awake again already.
Yesterday was one of [...]
