Major Concept August 13, 2008

It’s a bookmark.  It marks your book page.  You open your book, read, put the bookmark in, close the book, and it holds where you were reading.  No, it doesn’t do anything else.  It’s a bookmark!  Why the heck would a book mark come in a kid’s meal?  Geez, thanks Chik-fil-A!  I don’t how many times my kids have asked me what it is.  And how many books they have brought me.  It sticks in the book.  That’s it?  Yes, that’s it.  Nothing more.  Oh.

Team Parenting #7 August 12, 2008

Monday has passed, and I’m late again.  Here’s part SEVEN.

I do agree that adult time is just as important.  Mike and I try to find things and the time to do things with one another.  Even if it’s out to dinner for an hour or so, it makes a difference.  Allows us to talk without “mama!” being called all the time.  But we do both also have our alone time, without each other too.  I think this keeps our feet grounded and lets us remember who we are.   I like to surf the web, blog, read, etc.  Mike likes to take his bike out (dang, I need to post those pictures for you) or take the boat out. 

Remember while being parents, we can still have fun, and be kids ourselves!

I’ve lost a lifeline! August 12, 2008

Ok, not really.  Somehow I did manage to lose my wireless adapter network thingy.  So I am currently connected by hardwire (is that what they call it).  So my stuff is moving slow, slow, slow.  I have downloaded the wireless adapter from HP.com, but it’s not working.  So if you manage to have another clue as what to do, PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Frustration August 7, 2008

That’s the only word have right now.  My kids are bugging me.  I ask them to clean up their mess (i.e. a giant red tote that I can fit in, now empty, toys all over), and they say, “it’s too hard” or they are tattle telling on one another every 5 minutes.  I’m doing the best I can NOT to go in there and spank them.  They don’t care if I toss out their toys.  They have no, ZERO, respect for ‘things’.  They have destroyed their room:  carpet is stained with paint and who knows what else, hole in the wall, milk and other crap on the walls, broke one dresser, about to pull the tv down from the wall.   By the end of the week, all they will have is beds in their room.

You Have A BWUT? August 6, 2008

I’m making dinner, running around getting ready for work.  Trying to clean and straighten things so that Mike things I DID something (hmm, wonder if I have him fooled).  I’m in my room, socks and undies on, looking for a bra (wearing all white can be a PITA at times).  Timmy comes in, and with him only being 2.5 years old, I don’t feel the need to cover up in front of him, the other two, I do.  So he says,

Where’s your boobIES?

Me:  right here (I pinch his flabby baby boob)

Timmy:  where’s your weenie?

Me:  *Sigh*

Timmy:   where’s your weenie?

Me:  I don’t have a weenie?

Timmy:  You have a BWUT?

Me:  Yes timmy, I have a butt

Timmy:  You have a weenie BWUT.

 

GEESH

Parenting 101, con’t August 6, 2008

If you didn’t read my first post, read here.  Jarrett made a new post in Monday, and like I said, I’m moving slow this week.

TEAM Parenting, Part 6.  I’ll comment after work!

I have not gone underground, yet August 6, 2008

I’ve been one of millions of 30 year old to middle age Mothers, reading the teenage novel series. I mentioned them before HERE.

I’ve decided that I need read less murder-mystery books and more love novels/sagas.  I seem to have a peaked desire, if you know what I mean.  Hubbie is happy.

Ants, O.M.G.  I have ants.  I can’t get rid of them!  I went and bought little traps yesterday.  I tried one where I had them racing across my stove and down the cabinet, and today, there are gone.  So I will place the other 10 out around the house.  I also bought some outside stakes to help.  Then, I am having someone come professionally clean (No, I’m not a professional) my house, and then if there are STILL ants, have a professional come and spray.  It’s so irritating, that when I drive down the road, I feel like I have them on me.

Other than that, it’s been a great week.  I worked extra on Saturday night, we spent Sunday, no, was it Monday on the lake.  Mike’s bike parts have come in and him and the guys spent all night last night putting it together.  I’ll need to take some after pics and show you.  Darn it, you forgot to remind me to send in my camera!  I guess phone pics will have to do!

I start another round of three nights at work.  My schedule may change soon, as I was asked to come back to the cardiac floor, they need help.  I *think* I negotiated it where I won’t be losing/loosing my extra float pay!

I also got in the mail today, the Janet Evanovich series, Stephanie Plum.  I was told I’d enjoy them!  Yeah eBay!  Oh, and I also bought an iPod off eBay, hoping to use it in my car.  It’s cheaper than paying for the XM radio in there.  I also bought books for the kids off eBay, and a cover cover.  Oh that was drama, I hate being outbid in the last minute!

Ok, Peace, Lurves ya, Bai.

Working the Marriage, keeping the peace August 2, 2008

Life is rough at times.  I’ve learned that in my short 6 years of marriage, the the marriage part takes a bunch of work and thought (and a ton of work on my jealousy issues).  I found this nice list on Bethany’s Blog  It’s a great list, I made a copy to hang on the fridge and put on my bathroom mirror.

20 simple rules

1. Make Your Spouse a Priority
2. Accept Differences
3. Listen Carefully
4. Compliment Daily
5. Work Together as a Team
6. Mind Your Manners
7. Watch Less TV
8. Find Time For Fun
9. Do the Little Things
10. Celebrate the Top 5 (Christmas, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Mother/Fathers Day, Wedding Anniversary)
11. Think Positive
12. Fight Fair
13. Forgive
14. Welcome Each Other Home
15. Go to Bed At The Same Time
16. Develop Mutual Friends
17. Take a Date
18. Make Love
19. Pray For Each Other
20. Treasure Your Spouse

-I BORROWED THIS FROM, http://wifeandamother.wordpress.com/, who had stolen it from Ali who stole it from 20 Surprisingly Simple Rules and Tools for a Great Marriage by Steve Stephens

(btw, after 7 months, I figured out how to have a larger font!)

My Va Jay Jay is better than yours August 2, 2008

 

 

  

Last night I had a client who was taking IV steroids for some lung issues.  Of course her blood sugars had increase, and I got an order to administer some insulin per a sliding scale.  The woman was coherent, under 40 years of age, and once I explained why and what we were doing, she acknowledge she fully understood. 

Then she said, “My sugars are usually always high anyways.  My ovaries don’t make eggs, they never have.  They make sugar.”

All I could do is say ok, and walk out.

Beans, Everywhere Beans August 1, 2008

So for some reason, there is a two pound bag of red beans all over the boys’ room.  It is now a quarter til five pm, and they are still picking them up.  Although there has been more playing, fighting, kicking, watching tv, swording fighting, peeing, needing to ask/tell/share something with me than there has been bean picking.

Boys.

I had my yearly evaluation today.  I did get a raise (WOOT).  LOL, what’s funny was I was evaluated as an RN.  Ok, I have been out of orientation for two weeks?!?!  Oh well.

Speaking of work, last night I was floated to the geriatric psych unit.  I have worked there as a tech and as an LPN, but never as an RN.  The paper work there is completely different, especially the admits.  Of course, at shift change, I get THREE admits.  I called the house super and said that I don’t mind working there, but I don’t know the paperwork!  They said to do the best I could on the admissions.  There are many assessments (mental, cognitive) that I have not been trained fully on to determine the patients level of functioning.  Of course those pages were left blank.  It was a busy night, but a good night.  I had a wonderful RN from day shift stay over and complete ONE of the three admissions, what a  GODSEND!  And thankfully, my LPN and two techs were long term employees of that unit, and already new the patients and of course the way things work. 

And one final thought, as I leave to get ready to work day three of four (what was I thinking).  Another local hospital faces closing.  I know that that link doesn’t show it closing, but they are losing their state funding and close as of September first.  That sucks that those nurses and other staff will no longer have a job.  Also, they had an accidental death this week.  I feel bad for that nurse that made that mistake.  It’s something we all hope we never do.  Protect your liscense people!  We were taught in nursing school to check, check, and recheck!