JR's Birthday

Sorry, still no pictures. I am pretty lazy about taking pictures and then downloading them. Last week was JR's birthday and we had a great time. I made dinner for his entire family including his great grandmother. We had fillet, crab cakes, fresh green beans, and squash casserole, and crescent rolls. It was sooooo great. JR got an I-phone 3G from me and a Wii with Mario Cart driving game from my parents. That is the main reason that I have not blogged in a while, I have been spending all of my free time playing Mario Cart on the Wii. So we have been also eating birthday cake for the last week also, and I need to stop doing that because by the time we finish this cake there will be another cake for my birthday.

ATO

How many times does your work call you and say, there are too many people today, go ahead and get back to bed? Well, my work did just that today. While I was in the shower at 5 am to get ready for work, the charge nurse called and said that if I felt like going back to bed, I could.
Call it a case of too many nurses and not enough babies, but my unit is "OVERSTAFFED" each shift we are using about 16 nurses and each shift is scheduled with about 20-25 nurses. What do they do with other/extra nurses at Children's? Why, they recycle them to other units, or throw them out completely and let them stay home. Children's is a very "GREEN" hospital.
Anyway, ATO stands for authorized time off, or something like that and when there is too many nurses and not enough babies some nurses are lucky to get thrown out of the mix and ATO, stay home in bed, go shopping, eat out, finish house work and chores. It is a lucky surprise, and getting back into bed feels so much better, when just moments before you thought that you were going to be driving that hour commute to work.
I just feel a little bad for JR, because he was the one who go the call at 5 am, while I was in the shower, so he was awoken from his precious slumber, and could not fall back asleep. He is not lucky enough to ever be ATO'd. Since, he is the only employee, they are never overstaffed. Poor, JR.
Thanks to the ATO day, I am able to update my blog, and get some well needed rest after last week.

Florida

This past week I was in Florida with my parents and grandmother. I had a great time moving my parents into their new house (note the sarcasm). JR and I packed up all of their stuff left here in Maryland into a 24 foot moving van last Wednesday and set out on Thursday morning at 4 am. We arrived in Palm city at 11 pm that night. That's right JR and me in a bumpy, uncomfortable moving truck for 19, count them, 19 hours. I was going to drive, and it ended up that my feet would not touch the pedals in the truck, so poor JR drove the whole way, all 19 hours.
Once we were there it was not all fun and games, we had to unload the van, well actually JR and my dad did, and then unpack boxes. Every time we move you would think that it would get easier, but no. It still stinks. The best part was that we moved my parents pool table which weights about 2 tons or something like that. As I left yesterday, the garage was only filled with about 25 more boxes or so. I hope that my mom and grandmother can get them unpacked as my dad left today for a meeting in Washington and will be gone for two days.
I know you all are thinking, what did we do with Casey and Shelby? Don't worry, Aunt Kaley, Aunt Thaila and Uncle Dan were here to entertain those girls. Kaley is a very good friend and her parents Thaila (my former piano teacher) and Dan came up from Atlanta to spend the 4th with her and our house was the perfect place to stay, all the similarities of home including a cat and a dog.
Although, I was sad to leave, I was happy to get home. I am not much for living out of a suitcase and this was more of a working vacation.