My mom was determined that my siblings and I would learn to swim at a young age. Therefore, I went through all the swimming classes at the local YMCA beginning in infancy with the parent/child classes and eventually graduating to the ones with the fun names: Eel, Polliwog, Minnow, Guppy, and so on. While I…
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,…
This week the Toddler came home with a Fitness Award from her preschool-MDO class. Of course, when you’re two, everyone wins a fitness award of some sort, but this one made us especially proud when we read the list of skills necessary to receive the certificate. We decided to have the Toddler perform each…
Last weekend the Spouse and I tried to make some good use of the warm weather to begin our spring cleaning of the garage. This will, unfortunately, be an ongoing project the whole season, but we did at least get a jump start on it. Historically, we only tackle projects of this nature when forced…