It was a good weekend at work. Sometimes I can’t believe that I ended up with this weekend position on the easiest wing. It’d been nearly a year since I worked on the summer wing but I did a four hour 3-7 shift last week in order to cover for a woman who needed off for something with her daughter. You have to put the favors into the pool so that when you need off for something there are people who will help you.

It’d been one of my goals to be regularly covering on all three wings but I am actually very content where I am and do not necessarily feel the need to expand my skills. It happens naturally here and there as things come up, such as having to remove insulin from the stat safe and not only find the key and codes, but also make sure that it was the right kind of several insulins. You check and double check these types of things.

And even then check again. I still would not work the later portion of the summer shift. But this ended up working out because the woman who came on after me was able to cover for me for a few hours this weekend. I’ve been wanting to train with the main evening/night REACH nurse but there hasn’t been space in either my brain or my schedule to find the time or learn new things. That’s what it feels like to me at least.

I went to a homeschool co-op meeting and sat on a very uncomfortable bench for two hours. I told everybody that if we’re homeschooling this year then we’re doing Classical Conversations. The curriculum is good and includes at least one day a week of community involvement. But again as I sat there, I was unsure, as wonderful as all the people seemed. I was thinking I could volunteer my Tuesdays to help with child care.

But I am still going to have school next semester. I love the homeschooling, it’s such a passion of mine, and when I think that something is better I tend to go with the better option. It’s hard to justify paying money for the co-op option when I know I can do just as good of job for much lower. We can study cartography and read our novels, research the mammals and draw the pictures and do a better math program all on our own.

The math and Latin would be the hardest “strands”, and I’d be insistent to supplement with actual pre-Algebra so that they’re ready for the kind of math they’ll see in the upper grades and tests. But now these people have been really nice to me and this would be the second time I’ve turned them down after inquiring, meeting people, and attending meetings. I haven’t officially said no but those were just my initial thoughts.