WHOA!

I finally have a minute to take a breath. It has been crazy! Just a quick rundown of my schedule last week:

Monday: 12 hour day shift at the NICU
Tuesday: Exam #2 for OB, 2 hour class
Wednesday: Preload (gathering information on my patient) and work on my first careplan for med/surg. Ick.
Thursday: Med/Surg clinical from 6:45-5:00 (which means I left my house at 5:45). Turn in first part of careplan.
Friday: Final OB clinical.
Saturday: Family Halloween party, sod laying at our house (which I didn't participate in, but thanks to everyone that did!), finished second part of careplan and made revisions to the first part.
Sunday: Church, study for med/surg test
Monday: Med/surg exam #4 (didn't go so well, but I'm still okay overall in that class) and turned in finalized careplan. 3 hour class.

Today I am just taking the day off. I do have a small paper to write, but it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. I went to Maddie's class this morning to read to them during their read-a-thon. I also went visiting teaching and cleaned up downstairs while the twins pretended to take a nap. After school I had a couple of Maddie's friends over to decorate sugar cookies (that I made last weekend and froze). The kids had a lot of fun with that. I then took the girls to McDonald's for Happy Meals because I forgot that when I use the self-clean feature of my oven it needs an hour to cool down before it will let me unlock it - so the lasagna couldn't be baked. Once I get the kids to bed I'll write my paper and then spend a large portion of the night folding laundry and picking up my room. Some day off, I know, but it feels good to get stuff done that I just don't have time to do lately.

I have to give kudos to Aaron. The poor guy got pink eye and was sent home from work on Saturday the 18th. It took several days to clear up and they gave him a medical release through the 23rd. Because of his schedule, today's his first day back. I think it was by divine intervention that he ended up home all of last week. It definitely took some stress off of me to have him home without having to worry about getting the girls to a sitter and what was for dinner and everything like that. He has been so incredibly helpful. I'm a lucky girl!

Tomorrow I have to go preload and do another careplan. Not my favorite thing to do. Tomorrow night our ward is having a "Trunk-or-treat." Thursday is another clinical. Friday we will be busy with Halloween stuff, there's a parade at Maddie's school and then I'm helping with her class party. We are also going to a party that night with some friends. Saturday and Sunday Aaron is working, but my sister called me yesterday and ordered that I not ask her any questions but that she's coming to pick me up at 10:00. I don't know what the plan for the girls is but I'm assuming she has something planned for my birthday (it's on Sunday). I'm hoping to fit in a little bit of downtime with my DVR on Sunday since I don't have any exams next week. What an exciting way to turn 30. :) Actually, the idea of a quiet house with a few hours lounging on the couch sounds great right now!