Now that we’re a matter of days away from welcoming a third child into our lives, it’s beginning to hit me that I have no idea how I’m going to do this {“this” being simultaneously caring for three children ages 4 and under}. I think I naively imagined that the Toddler would be slightly more…
Yesterday morning I was talking on the phone to a friend when the Toddler came running into the kitchen with what she considered to be an urgent problem if not a full-blown emergency. Her plastic onion and lettuce ball had both {somehow} gotten stuck in the chute of one of her favorite toys–the Busy Ball…
“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Helen Keller…
Several years ago when I was in college, I spent a summer working for my dad. Since I have no healthcare experience and get nauseous at the site of blood, I served primarily in a receptionist/front office assistant type role. Think underling. Dad had a head nurse who I would describe as hard-working and efficient,…