Nurses week

I got a hair cut today.  Nothing fancy, just a trim to clean up the damage that a combination of cheap shampoo, windy runs, and curling irons bring to long hair.  My Mr. encouraged me to enjoy the afternoon solo.  To get my hair cut and do...whatever.

By myself.

This may seem outrageous to some, but as a wife, mama to three, RN, and grad student...well I haven't really done this before.

In fact, my daily run (if I don't run during the day while pushing the Kip and Jovie, in the stroller of course) is the only time I am ever really alone.

So I sat at a local book store, white chocolate mocha in hand, with a trashy magazine.  I wasn't super interested in Kim K's latest life crisis, or how Princess Kate's pregnancy was going, so I sat the magazine aside and just people watched.  The mother who seemed frazzled with her two not-listenening toddlers, the business guy with the geeky socks, the grandma with the bedazzled cane and her "Fifty Shades of Grey" book in hand...it all made me giggle. I've been that frazzled mother, and my Mr. dresses in a way that might make some giggle (think Dr. House style), and well granny with her (from what I've heard) rather sexually charged book, and the fact that she used a cane and was reading such a book...well.

I left after 30 minutes, bored as a gourd.

I'm so use to doing, being, working, moving, thinking, cleaning, tending, running, loving, mothering, disciplining, nurturing, etc that I don't know how to be still.

Perhaps this constant movement that is my life is the reason that I half-jokingly, half whole-heartedly whisper to Jovie "don't be a nurse, don't ever be a nurse!"

Being a wife, mama, and nurse means that you are always taking care of someone.  Always.  I have been blessed with the hardest, best jobs in life.  I wouldn't change anything.

I mean, I'm pretty lucky to get to wear work attire that closely resembles pajamas every day!

Anyway, it is nurses week this week, so go love on one!

This August is my 4th "Nurse-versary"

4 years of doing a job that is mentally, emotionally, and physically challenging.  In these 4 years, because we've moved so much, I've worked in a variety of areas:

*pediatric psychiatric nurse
* neurology/oncolocy (stroke/seizure/cancer) nurse
*mother/baby nurse
*and as a medical surgical nurse (my floor is specific to ortho)

Hopefully my experience will help me to become an amazing APRN!