O-o-oh Sweet Child of Mi-ine

Today was my first day of orientation for my new job. I accepted a part-time position at the new hospital in outpatient surgery, so once things are up and running, I will work two days/week. Right now, with orientation, it's a lot more than that. This week i had a few hours of paperwork and a health screening on Monday, today was a self-directed computer program to assess my nursing skills (aack...) and tomorrow is "hospital orientation" which is to say, "this is the benefit information, this is the security information, these are the names and meanings of our different codes i.e. code blue, code red; etc..."

Soooo, today was the start of leaving my sweet children in another's care. Bode had school so Doug took him and picked him up and brought him back to Angela's house. Thank goodness for this childcare arrangement. Seriously. Angela is a dear friend who has a 4-year old who happens to be Bode's best bud. And she has a 2-year old who adores Keegen (almost in an "Elmyra" way, from TinyToons--anyone else remember her?). I took Keegen to Angela's this AM and got him down for his nap before I left. I told him what he could expect for the day and told him I would miss him but that Bode would be there by lunchtime. It was a little weird laying him down and walking out (as he craned his head to watch me go).

I had the radio on as i drove and the announcer started telling this story of how embarassed he was yesterday as he stood in an elevator and realized that the song being played was "Cat's in the Cradle" and how it made him cry and he rode the elevator up and down and up again to hear the whole story and how he hadn't heard it in so long and how we always feel like we don't spend enough time with our children and on and on and I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me? Today you have to tell this story? As I am leaving my children and NOT spending time with them today?" Luckily, after that story, Guns n' Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" was played so I was able to rock out to that and leave my slight twinge of guilt behind...

From Doug's report, Bode had a great day at school and was psyched to hear that he was going to Zeke's house when Doug picked him up. And, as usual, I was NOT greeted when I arrived to pick them up. Keegen was happy to see me, but Bode gave me a grumpy "Noooooo!" as leaving Zeke's is always tragedy. Hey, he gets to be there ALL day tomorrow, so hopefully they won't get sick of each other!!