Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
It's CONTAGIOUS!
No, it is not an illness this time, although Radlee was up coughing all night. This morning I have witnessed just how much my attitude is like a virus. The old saying "when mommy isn't happy, no one is happy" is such a true statement. Also, when mommy wakes up with joy, it seems to equally affect everyone in our home.
After reading yesterday's post, you might be tempted to call mobile crisis, but hold the phone, a ray of sunshine is peeking through that cloud of gloom. I admit I have a love/hate relationship with days like yesterday. Oh how I hate that feeling of despair. I hate feeling like everything is falling apart; but I love the brokenness that brings me back to the loving arms of my Savior. I love how He allows me to repent of the ways I have pushed Him aside, yet He forgives me and wipes my slate clean. I love the way brokenness forces me to examine my heart and the many idols I have put before my Father are revealed to me! In response to the place I was at yesterday, I have decided to make a few changes in our home.
1. Regardless of my plans for the day, I need to get up and get ready. It is amazing how a shower and a little make-up can change an attitude.
2. Designated times everyday are going to be electronic free times. This means no TV, computer, xbox, PlayStation, DS.....etc. Hopefully, this will encourage more time spent together playing, reading, and conversing. This is a fairly easy task during the summer months, but on cold and rainy days this is much harder. The TV/games has gotten out of hand lately. It is unhealthy!
3. I am the most excited about this next task.....Jeff and I watched the movie Fireproof a few nights ago. It was a great movie. I know that our church is doing the bible study called The Love Dare that goes along with the movie, but like I said in my previous post, I haven't been to church in awhile. Me and a few friends are going to do this study together without our husbands knowing. I think it will be great to watch just how our marriages can be positively affected, by the changes the wives start making. (shhhh....don't tell Jeff....he doesn't read this blog)
Basically, with this study, there is a different challenge everyday for 40 days. Today's challenge was to avoid saying anything negative to your spouse for the entire day. So far, I am doing a great job! OK......it is only 8:30 a.m., but hey you have to start somewhere!
Although it is only 8:30, I have witnessed how my attitude affects everyone in our home. For instance, this morning, in addition to being positive, I went a step further and offered to cook Jeff some eggs. While I was cooking, he came in and unloaded the dishes from the night before. I was quite surprised. Then I was taking laundry downstairs and Radlee offered to carry the basket down for me. It was so sweet! It is amazing how attitudes truly are contagious!
I hope I can continue on this path towards a new transformation in our home. My desire is that we lead our life as a family in a way that truly honors Christ.
After reading yesterday's post, you might be tempted to call mobile crisis, but hold the phone, a ray of sunshine is peeking through that cloud of gloom. I admit I have a love/hate relationship with days like yesterday. Oh how I hate that feeling of despair. I hate feeling like everything is falling apart; but I love the brokenness that brings me back to the loving arms of my Savior. I love how He allows me to repent of the ways I have pushed Him aside, yet He forgives me and wipes my slate clean. I love the way brokenness forces me to examine my heart and the many idols I have put before my Father are revealed to me! In response to the place I was at yesterday, I have decided to make a few changes in our home.
1. Regardless of my plans for the day, I need to get up and get ready. It is amazing how a shower and a little make-up can change an attitude.
2. Designated times everyday are going to be electronic free times. This means no TV, computer, xbox, PlayStation, DS.....etc. Hopefully, this will encourage more time spent together playing, reading, and conversing. This is a fairly easy task during the summer months, but on cold and rainy days this is much harder. The TV/games has gotten out of hand lately. It is unhealthy!
3. I am the most excited about this next task.....Jeff and I watched the movie Fireproof a few nights ago. It was a great movie. I know that our church is doing the bible study called The Love Dare that goes along with the movie, but like I said in my previous post, I haven't been to church in awhile. Me and a few friends are going to do this study together without our husbands knowing. I think it will be great to watch just how our marriages can be positively affected, by the changes the wives start making. (shhhh....don't tell Jeff....he doesn't read this blog)
Basically, with this study, there is a different challenge everyday for 40 days. Today's challenge was to avoid saying anything negative to your spouse for the entire day. So far, I am doing a great job! OK......it is only 8:30 a.m., but hey you have to start somewhere!
Although it is only 8:30, I have witnessed how my attitude affects everyone in our home. For instance, this morning, in addition to being positive, I went a step further and offered to cook Jeff some eggs. While I was cooking, he came in and unloaded the dishes from the night before. I was quite surprised. Then I was taking laundry downstairs and Radlee offered to carry the basket down for me. It was so sweet! It is amazing how attitudes truly are contagious!
I hope I can continue on this path towards a new transformation in our home. My desire is that we lead our life as a family in a way that truly honors Christ.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Content
What is wrong with me lately? I just feel so unhappy with so many areas of my life, but am not doing anything to change what I am unhappy with. There ae so many areas that I feel like I am not doing a good job in, but I am doing nothing to fix them. I am just going to lay it all out there....I don't really care who reads this or what anyone thinks of me.
1. I am struggling with laziness! I feel like all I want to do lately is sit around and watch tv. I have been wasting so much time. I am doing ok with my school work but I just seem to be doing enough to get by. I am not really enjoying online classes and think that is part of the reason.
2. I don't feel that I have been spending enough time with my kids. Yes, I am with them all of the time, but I mean quality fun time together.
3. I just feel so horrible about my appearance lately. I always do this in the winter. I hibernate and gain weight and then none of my clothes fit, so I just sit around in my sweat pants and feel sorry for myself.
4. Money.....well the lack of money is always a problem for us this time of the year. I think that is part of my problem.
5. This should have been first and then all of my problems would make sense. I have been so distant from God lately. I haven't had any quiet time or even been to church in a very long time. I work on Saturday nights now, so I just go home and go to bed on Sunday morning. I know that when God is not in the center of everything, all things just don't seem right!
So, this is where I am at right now. I don't exactly know what I plan on doing about these issues, but something has to change!
1. I am struggling with laziness! I feel like all I want to do lately is sit around and watch tv. I have been wasting so much time. I am doing ok with my school work but I just seem to be doing enough to get by. I am not really enjoying online classes and think that is part of the reason.
2. I don't feel that I have been spending enough time with my kids. Yes, I am with them all of the time, but I mean quality fun time together.
3. I just feel so horrible about my appearance lately. I always do this in the winter. I hibernate and gain weight and then none of my clothes fit, so I just sit around in my sweat pants and feel sorry for myself.
4. Money.....well the lack of money is always a problem for us this time of the year. I think that is part of my problem.
5. This should have been first and then all of my problems would make sense. I have been so distant from God lately. I haven't had any quiet time or even been to church in a very long time. I work on Saturday nights now, so I just go home and go to bed on Sunday morning. I know that when God is not in the center of everything, all things just don't seem right!
So, this is where I am at right now. I don't exactly know what I plan on doing about these issues, but something has to change!
Monday, February 16, 2009
LIFE
Whew.....it has been a little crazy lately. Working nights, even though it has only been a few lately, is kicking my butt. It is such an adjustment. I feel so bad for always thinking my sister is just being lazy. (oh by the way Ashley, I use to think you were lazy....but I don't anymore ) It totally messes up my sleep pattern. I am now so sleepy around 8 am, and I realized it is because that is my "bedtime" on the nights I work.
About work.....well It is getting some better. I hesitate to write too much, because I don't know who might read this from work! I will just share a few of the details. It was really hard on me at first. It was quite a different crowd of folks than what I am use to. However after the past few weeks, their personality types make much more sense to me. It definitely takes a strong personality to work in the emergency room. All types of people come in and I mean all types!!! Wow! I think I have been living in my own little naive bubble all of my life. I had no idea how many people have serious mental problems. I say that not in a joking way, but in a serious sad way. The need for Christ in so many people's lives is so evident. My hope is that I can be a "light of hope" when I encounter these people! My hope is that my heart doesn't become hard to this walk of life! My hope is that I never become a person that believes I am beyond having the same struggles so many of the people I have witnessed in the past month. I am grateful that life hasn't always been easy for me, because now I feel I have so much empathy for so many of these people. My heart aches when I see a patient that feels they just can't take it anymore! Individuals who think they might be above others drive me insane, and that is probably my biggest struggle while at work.
My sister is getting quite a kick of my mishaps while at work. She finds the stupid things I say quite funny and said I should blog about them. I think she just wants to have a good laugh at my expense. I may share a few things from time to time......remember I am still pretty "green" to this whole medical world. Yes, I know a little from school, but I am not deep into my studies yet. All I can do at ths point is learn from my mistakes and laugh about it at this point.
For instance.........the other night a seriously ill patient came in. It was the first time I had been at work during this type of situation. I was instructed to call a person who I had never heard of and request what I thought she said was a bed. I was nervous and could barely hear all of the commands that were coming from he patient's room. So, I figured out who this person was that I was suppose to call and requested a bed.....which I thought was pretty strange. If the person was dying, why would they need a bed for him? She figured out that they were probably saying vent and not bed.....I felt like the biggest dork!!
A few nights ago we had several admissions. Like I said, I know a lot of the terminology, but I still come across lots of words that I am still figuring out. Also, the doctor's hand writing doesn't help matters. So, I call this time for a bed for an admission. The diagnosis was N/V/D....easy right? I proceed to tell the supervisor the patient has Nivid. I just thought Nivid was another new term that I haven't heard of before. But then.... He said Nivid....I have never heard of that! Then he proceeded to tell me it was nausea, vomiting, diarrhea! I promise the writing was bad and it looked like I's and not /! I just have to laugh at myself!
About work.....well It is getting some better. I hesitate to write too much, because I don't know who might read this from work! I will just share a few of the details. It was really hard on me at first. It was quite a different crowd of folks than what I am use to. However after the past few weeks, their personality types make much more sense to me. It definitely takes a strong personality to work in the emergency room. All types of people come in and I mean all types!!! Wow! I think I have been living in my own little naive bubble all of my life. I had no idea how many people have serious mental problems. I say that not in a joking way, but in a serious sad way. The need for Christ in so many people's lives is so evident. My hope is that I can be a "light of hope" when I encounter these people! My hope is that my heart doesn't become hard to this walk of life! My hope is that I never become a person that believes I am beyond having the same struggles so many of the people I have witnessed in the past month. I am grateful that life hasn't always been easy for me, because now I feel I have so much empathy for so many of these people. My heart aches when I see a patient that feels they just can't take it anymore! Individuals who think they might be above others drive me insane, and that is probably my biggest struggle while at work.
My sister is getting quite a kick of my mishaps while at work. She finds the stupid things I say quite funny and said I should blog about them. I think she just wants to have a good laugh at my expense. I may share a few things from time to time......remember I am still pretty "green" to this whole medical world. Yes, I know a little from school, but I am not deep into my studies yet. All I can do at ths point is learn from my mistakes and laugh about it at this point.
For instance.........the other night a seriously ill patient came in. It was the first time I had been at work during this type of situation. I was instructed to call a person who I had never heard of and request what I thought she said was a bed. I was nervous and could barely hear all of the commands that were coming from he patient's room. So, I figured out who this person was that I was suppose to call and requested a bed.....which I thought was pretty strange. If the person was dying, why would they need a bed for him? She figured out that they were probably saying vent and not bed.....I felt like the biggest dork!!
A few nights ago we had several admissions. Like I said, I know a lot of the terminology, but I still come across lots of words that I am still figuring out. Also, the doctor's hand writing doesn't help matters. So, I call this time for a bed for an admission. The diagnosis was N/V/D....easy right? I proceed to tell the supervisor the patient has Nivid. I just thought Nivid was another new term that I haven't heard of before. But then.... He said Nivid....I have never heard of that! Then he proceeded to tell me it was nausea, vomiting, diarrhea! I promise the writing was bad and it looked like I's and not /! I just have to laugh at myself!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Super Bowl Sunday
Here are just a few pictures from our small Super Bowl party. It was also Abbie's birthday, so we celebrated with cupcakes and a few gifts. We all tried to just keep it simple and enjoy each others company. I think the kids had a really good time together too!
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