Kate and Brock in the fort they made for their sleepover tonight(Yes, the dog is wearing a T-shirt, and don't bug me about it :)
Kate and her daddy play thumb war with the sumo wrestlers Den brought her from Boise
I can happily say we are a complete family living under one roof again! I drove over to Boise on the 1st in Den's mom's truck... what a fun rig to drive... and brought him home on the 2nd. It's been wonderful to have him here, especially now that everything got unpacked today, and the house looks back to some semblance of normal. (Is semblance a real word?) Life is certainly not normal, but it's easier now that we're together.
Although Den had been told he had a job in Yakima, he was told on the Wednesday before he moved that the union wouldn't accept his transfer. Lovely. Anyway, to make a very long, frustrating story short, he is currently a Boise technician on loan to Pasco for six months. After that, we don't know what the heck is going to happen. Pasco is part of the Tri-Cities, and it takes him about an hour and a half to get there and another hour and a half to get home... although this week he's had two nights with serious accidents on the freeway, leaving him a little stranded and a lot late. We're really frustrated with it, but we're making it through. Childcare is the biggest issue right now, because once I start working nights, no daycare opens early enough for him to drop Kate off before he leaves and before I get home from work. We're working on having someone come to the house those three mornings a week, but we haven't got anything set yet. Pray, please!!!! On top of being a man on loan, Den has discovered that none of the technologies he specializes in are here in this part of Washington, so he's bound to get a little bored here soon. We're hoping some new stuff will be coming here within the next few years so he can use his brain again!
Kate's doing great for the most part. School is going well, I think. She's happy and has great friends. She really misses the ones we left behind in Boise, though.
It's a different world here as far as parents in the classroom. I'm not needed as I have been in the past, and it's hard to not know the kids she goes to school with. As my schedule gets more set, I'm going to try to push my way in there once every other week or so just so we know what's going on in there.
Our awesome neighbor, Amy, came down this afternoon and cut our hair and colored mine. It's so fun to have real color (not just something I mixed up out of a box from the grocery store!) I've cut most of my hair off again, but it's not short like before. I determined it's really hard to have hair in your face while trying to place a urinary catheter in a laboring mommy, so I chopped it off. Too much info, I know, but that's the reality of my life!
Things are really good at work. I've gone through a rough period of adjusting to taking two patients at a time. Kind of had to mourn the kind of nursing I'm used to giving to my patients and accept that it's just really different here. I can only do the best I can do, and I'll continue to give 110% while I'm there. I'm just getting accustomed to the fact that it is how it is. Since I've gotten over my slump, I'm enjoying it and still loving the people I work with. I think most L&D nurses are just nice people. I'm sure now that I've said that, some labor nurse will kill her husband and adorable children while they sleep, and we'll all hear it on the news.
Right now, I need to be cleaning the house, entering receipts in Microsoft Money, finishing this great book I'm reading, or entertaining my youngun and her handsome guest. Despite all of this, I am lazily sitting at the computer typing about our silly life and listening to said handsome guest obnoxiously and endearingly belch in the living room. Needless to say, our daughter is enamored!
The kids want to watch Goosebumps to "get the creeps," so I'm off to read in my big fat chair under my snuggly purple blanket.
Sleep well, my friends!
