A little outing....

So this was my first week starting day shift at the hospital; I worked days about a year ago, but transferred to nights so I could start working on the OB floor. Anyway, it is going great. It is nice to be a "real" person again; sleeping in the dark and eating at normal hours. I miss my night shift girls, but see them in passing. At least I am on the same weekend as the one's I hang out with the most, so we can at least have some girls nights!!

Anyway, I had a staff meeting today, and of course I didn't work, so I had to take the children. My parents are away at a funeral, so no sitter :( These staff meetings can take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours. With a 4 1/2 year old and a 15 month old you can say I wasn't too excited to attend. But we went anyway.

I had to pick Deagan up from school, and I of course forgot his coloring books and writing stuff at home. So we took a trip to the trusty ole' dollar store; picked up some pencils, crayons, coloring books, and writing books and we were off.

The first 25 minutes were GREAT at the meeting. Deagan sat with his friend Abigail (a girl from his class whose mom I work with). They colored, traded papers etc.....And Brayden was in his stroller (which by the way he hates...he is very mobile and being restricted is against everything in his little world), being great, eating snacks, taking his shoes off and throwing them. Not too bad, I am thinking to myself.

Then, Deagan got tired of sitting and Bray was tired of his stroller and starting to scream. So I took him out (HUGE mistake), he wanted to run around and scream. And of course Deagan wanted to play with him. Needless to say, I made Deagan pick up all of our stuff, and we were out of there. We actually lasted about 35-40 minutes, which I thought was WONDERFUL!! Hopefully I don't get fired for the loud children...haha....We then went out got stickers for Deagan from the nurses station and went home. I put Bray right down for his 2nd nap, and Deagan on the couch for quite time.

Hopefully next staff meeting I work, so I can just pop in.

So it wasn't as horrible as I expected, I was actually pretty impressed.