For the Record....

I thought I would post a little about what's been happening the past couple of weeks. I jinxed the weather with my previous post about how beautiful it has been here because it has rained daily this week. It's crazy that we already went swimming in the lake this year because it has been way too cold this week! I started my job two weeks ago and I think I am going to like it. It is a very busy unit and patients don't stay very long so the turnover is really high. It's not uncommon to start with four patients at the beginning of the shift, then discharge most of them, and then have an admit or two all in one shift. I like the feel of the unit though. It feels a lot like the cardiac unit that I started working on as a new grad - I keep telling people that it feels just like home. The hard part about a new place is that I don't know any doctors, can't read their handwriting yet, and I don't know where anything is! I had to ask someone where I could find a band aid the other day -- seems so simple. But I know that it will get better and soon I will know this place as well as I knew EIRMC or Magic Valley.

My schedule has been kinda tough on all of us. I only plan on working once or twice a week but right now, while orienting I have been working three shifts. I know it doesn't sound like a lot but my kids are used to me being around so it has been a little hard on all of us. Plus, I am working Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 7-3:30 and Len goes to work from 3:00-11:00. We have someone watch the kids for the overlap in the afternoon but I usually see Len when he goes to work on Monday at 3:00 and then I don't see him again until Friday morning. I should be done with orientation soon though.

Last weekend I took the kids to Moscow to see Markell. It's nice to have her so close. We saw her new apartment and went to the park for dinner. The kids found shells, fish and ducks and Kaydra even spotted a swimming turtle. Kanyon was so disappointed that he was on the other side of the pond when she saw it and he couldn't get there fast enough. We stayed the night and then the next day we went to the water park there. The pools were heated and it was a nice morning. It is a great park and the kids had a good time. We will have to go back again. Even Miranda loved it. I have to watch her like a hawk because she thinks she can swim. Her favorite thing to do is put her face in the water. It doesn't matter how much she coughs or sputters, she still tries it again and again.

On Monday we signed up the kids for the reading program at the library. For every three hours that they read they get a prize. On Thursday Leonard took them back for a puppet theater workshop where they both made a paper bag puppet and put on a show. Kaydra had already read enough to earn her first prize. They seemed to have a good time.

All in all things are going pretty good. We have decided on a well company and we plan on scheduling the drilling on Monday. They probably won't get to us for at least a week, if not two. We are working on our blue prints for the house with an architect and hope to have those in our hands by the middle of July or sooner. We just have a few little changes here and there. In the meantime, as soon as our house closes in Idaho Falls we are going to put in our driveway and run the power and phone lines to the construction site, as well as get in the well! Things are starting to happen and I can't wait! I will post as we go along so that everyone can share in the journey!