Year: 2014

Surprise!  It’s snowing! Again! Kids are out of school. Just as well I guess – Edda is under the weather and spent the weekend basically covered in snot.  She’s still a little raspy today, but overall, much better.

Somehow in anticipation of being snowed in today, yesterday we ate dinner at 4:30pm and by 6:30pm we were pretty much asleep in front of the TV trying to watch a documentary about the Sphinx.  We did end up watching a bit of the Oscars – googling all the famous people that we don’t know because we hardly ever see movies anymore.

Edda got sent home from school today. Generally she’s been doing a lot better, lots of smiles and laughter which has made the rest of us happy too. But I think she caught the bug that Jeremy’s had for the past few days – no fever, just a little touch of hoarseness in her voice.

We are getting ready to celebrate her birthday with our 2nd annual pancake breakfast. Emy helped us make the invitations. We are trying to get 100 people to stop by the house.

I learned to hang an IV bag today. And give a morphine injection. (!)

It snowed again here. Will the winter never end? The schools opened on time, thankfully. Do you see Edda’s bus waiting at the bottom of the street? (I think it’s Edda’s bus, although there might be another kid on the street who has their own bus too.) They like coming to the house exactly the same time every day – so they come early and wait.

Kiki! We got your postcard and we are sending you some snow!

Jeremy in his new outfit procured from Sears. Black shirt and orange pants – this photo does not do it justice, really. Crazy. Who is this guy? Got a million compliments from his co-workers. Now to just get glasses from Warby Parker.

Edda is not one to refuse ice cream.

Boys and their video games. Popped into the kitchen for brownies.

Spent the morning with Bert. He’s going to be far away from me for a few months, so I thought I’d squeeze in a visit today. I brought him hot, fresh donuts from Krispie Kreme. I’m pretty sure he loves me best for it. Beautiful 60 degree day today! Just want to be outside all the time. I’m happy Vince is outside camping this weekend and not pinned to his computer – it was suppose to be a “cold campout” in an unheated cabin, but I’m sure it’s been just fabulous.

Took Edda to the mall where we shopped for clothes at Sears. All the winter stuff is 60% off  – rush on over now and you guys can all look as hip as we do in all our Land’s End clothes.

Vince is off camping this weekend. I’m trying to figure out how my camera works with not much luck. A quiet weekend planned – full of work, studying, errands and laundry.

I love doing the morning carpool when I have a full, full van. I feel silly when I have only Vince – like I’m wasting gas. All these crazy kids could walk to school – I think it’s about a mile.

Edda seemed better today – at home at least, school reported sadness and crying. Sigh. Thanks for sending all your happy vibes to her – she needs it!

I wish someone told me 30 years ago that it’s pretty much half as much work to aim for a “B” in a class than trying to get an “A”. There really is only so much time in a day and I’m enjoying school so much more now that I write a 3 page paper in 30 min – proofread it for 30-60 seconds and then hit SEND! Or I have to perform a skill – wound change, blood pressure measurement, etc. I prep for 30 min and then just do it (and I usually sign up for the first slot of the test cycle, no one is fighting me for that space). It feels like I’m so underprepared, but I’m doing just fine. It’s also a relief to hear from the prof that last term, out of the 150 in her class, only 10 people got “A”s. So I’m not fighting for that “A”, I have other stuff that I need to do. All that time in my youth I spent getting the last 5 points of my grade. I could have been out there having a beer and watching football instead.

My kick-ass assessment lab professor. NP in the ER. Seems totally exhausted all the time (note fully sugared Mountain Dew in hand) – I want to be her, but less exhausted.

All of nursing school is worth it now that I’ve learned how to use the damn ear scope. Now maybe I can check Edda’s ear for infection without hauling her to the pediatrician.