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Monday is right around the corner
I just had three days off but it was a tough weekend at home so I'm starting a new week feeling stressed. I'm really hoping that I will get a full night of sleep to reset my mood ( Read more... ) -
back at it tomorrow
Tomorrow I'm back at work after my week off, and the kids head back to school after their week off as well ( Read more... ) -
just an ordinary Thursday
I got my hair trimmed today but I've decided to grow it out a bit - it's frizzy from being thinned out and layered, it's not really long enough to put up and get out of my way at a birth but too long to stay out of my face and behave while I bend over birth pools ( Read more... ) -
catching my breath before another Monday begins
Some weekends on call are eerily but wonderfully quiet. This was not one of them. A couple of births, client pages, and SO.MANY. home visits that they are all blurring together now ( Read more... ) -
as January winds up
I've been feeling so tense this week, clenching my teeth, having headaches, feeling my shoulders up at the level of my ears. Yeesh. I know it's a combination of a lot of things that I'm carrying around, things I need to just let roll off my back ( Read more... ) -
dis, dat and the other
Livejournal doesn't get the love that it used to - so many other things get my attention and energy these days. And truly, it's not easy to filter and edit my words to exclude my work experiences from my life. Work IS a big part of my life but I can't write about it. It reminds me of the blacked out letters that were censored when soldiers wrote ( Read more... ) -
and so 2014 begins
Ah yes, the type and delete disease, it's back ( Read more... ) -
so blessed
Kim arrived at 2 o'clock this morning - a very long day and a long drive for her last night. Charlotte was the first one up this morning and climbed into bed beside me at 7:30 and as she was snuggled in beside me she asked, "Mom, do you and daddy ever roll over on top of each other?" o-O
I asked her, "Well, why do you ask?" and she replied, "Well ( Read more... ) -
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Not very chatty these days, and strangely....bored, despite the endless list of things that need attention. I've become so accustomed to responding to the things that are screaming for attention that when things quiet down to a dull roar, I'm a bit lost ( Read more... ) -
the makings of a lovely weekend off call
* We took the girls to see "Frozen" on Saturday. I <3 Olaf ( Read more... )