Hello! I know no one reads this anyway, so it's more theraputic than anything. It's been a long time since I've posted anything here and I felt that I needed to get back to writing. I'm going to put up some pictures of me and AJ so you can see what we look like. Perhaps that will help attract readers. Perhaps it won't because I'm just boring. Ce' la vie. So....what's happened since I was here last...TONS.
My amazing, wonderful, smart, protective, caring Great Aunt/Grandmother Eleanora Piekielniak passed away at the end of October, 2010. I will miss you horribly but I am SO glad that you got to meet AJ.
AJ had his first birthday (Yay!)
AJ started walking (sob!)
Frank & I started working from home (DOUBLE YAY!!!) and I LOVE it!! Seriously....you couldn't pay me enough to go back into the office, and I think if they tried to threaten me with that, I might quit and try to find something around here. I'm serious....I never want to work downtown ever again. Unless I'm making at least twice my salary, because the difference is all going to go for parking. Unfortunately, the catch with working at home means that I can do more overtime, because I log out and I'm already home. I'm afraid I'm turning into a workaholic...except I need to be right now because we have $7,000 worth of appliances that need to be replaced this year. But that's another story for another day.
I am dabbling more with cooking. Yes, I use recipies, but I try to make them my own. I figured that I'm a mommy now, so I need to learn how to bake and whatnot. I make a mean banana bread as well as a mean pumpkin bread. I attempted to make pumpkin & cream cheese muffins last night. I think they came out all right, but I was *just* short on the vanilla extract and white sugar, and I think I can tell. The boys can't though....Frank ate two last night & AJ shoved an entire mini-muffin in his mouth this morning, so that's all that counts. LOL :)
Last but not least, my new years resolution. Most people pick the whole "lose weight, quit drinking, quit smoking" route. I, on the other hand, am not. Yes, I am still fat from having AJ. We'll get there. I do not drink much (my tolerance has gone to pot in the last couple years) and I quit smoking when I found out I was pregnant (2 years this May!), so my resolution is to go back to school. I have been accepted to the local community college and I MUST speak with an advisor soon so that I can get funding, etc for the fall. It'll be nice, as I'm considered a single mom so I'll qualify for grants (Frank & I aren't married, so as far as the Feds are concerned, I'm a single mom. I don't make the rules, I just roll with 'em). My dream is to be a pediatric nurse. I'm a crabby Cancer and I'm a motherly type of person. I want to take care of people and make sure they feel needed, wanted, and loved, If I had a 5 bedroom house, three of the bedrooms would be filled with foster kids. I LOVE KIDS. To me there's no better way to spend your day than around kids. Yes, I understand they are sick and some won't make it. I also understand that you're not supposed to let yourself get emotionally attached. That doesn't mean that they don't deserve to know someone cares.
When I was a senior in high school, we had to do 40 hours of community service. I chose to volunteer at the local hospital. My absolute favorite place to be was the pediatric ward. I loved reading bedtime stories to the little kids and playing cards or board games with the older ones. One thing people don't realize is that these kids' parents don't regularly visit them. If I had a child in the hospital for an extended period of time, I'd live there. Seriously, I would. But these parents are absent. The kids live for visitors and just to know that someone cares. THAT is why I want to be a peds nurse. Not for the money and *certainly* not for the schedule. I want to be a peds nurse for the kids. So that they know someone is there for them and someone cares.
