The kids woke up to a surprise snow day this morning. Josh went to take them all, but on the way into the grade school, not only were the roads slick but there was a line of cars backed up to the gas station. So he turned around and decided just to keep everyone home. Fridays are also his day off in the winter. They watched a movie and Elianna went down to the program director’s apartment to work on a puzzle. The boys made a ramp for when they went sledding.

Today was another scheduled dayshift day. I was supposed to be finishing training on Spring but they’d had a call-in so I ended up getting pulled over to Summer. I was fine with that and had halfway expected it. Getting pulled is when you were supposed to be on one floor but you get moved to another in order to deal with staffing issues. On summer there’s the “front half” and the “back half”. I had the front half. The other nurse was very patient and helpful.

So training now is going to look like being on my own with help. I don’t know what this means as far as getting on the schedule. I really am liking this job and am thankful to have it. The management is good, most of the nurses are nice, the aides do their thing and occasionally we overlap in patient rooms. There’s just an element of having to suffer through the newness and not knowing where room 20 is when you’re standing right in front of it. But now I’ll always know.