What a Week

I'll be so glad when this week is over! The pace has been  nothing but sheer insanity.

Steve's off the hook for the court case now. Funny, the music teacher spent an entire day wading through the process of selecting a jury, then near the end they asked if anyone knew the witness, Steve F*** and she was like, "I do, I do, I do!!!" and she felt lucky to be let off scott free. Then the next day Steve had a full plate -first he did  the blood draw for the CHIP Program (Coronary Heart Improvement Project) at 6 AM, then he ran the blood to the lab, attended  a staff meeting at the hospital, and rushed to the  court only to be told that he wouldn't be needed after all. Yes, after all those months of subpoenas, and interviews and meetings, etc... he isn't needed. The prosecuting attorney told him the defendant had one witness on her side and that witness had just died of a brain aneurysm.  Okay!

Today Steve starts his new job at the little hospital in tourist town nearby. He's doing conscious sedation 2 days a week for 4 hours a day. The pay isn't quite like he'd get at his main job, but it's better than a kick in the pants. Here's the interesting thing, he had to spend a good part of day this week in a class on how to orient  newly hired nurses  -- BUT they said, "just hang on to this information because we are on a hiring freeze and in fact we are going to start bumping some that are already hired."  Steve's asked "BUMP them to where?"  They're like, "Well, you know, lay them off." Hmmmm. Interesting considering they just built the hospital twice as big. Now they are closing down units.

All that to say, I'm not the only one crazy busy. The twins have been much more even keel since Monday. I am grateful. We moved bedrooms around. Steve picked up a really, really  nice twin bed for $50 yesterday and so Bri and Vanessa are officially rooming together. Missy is in her own room and looks like a mouse in that great big double bed. She's happy, though.The girls played a trick on Buster since he was quite jealous of the new room. He got into the bed in his pajamas to try it out last night and quick as a wink Christina took his glasses and turned out the light and said, "goodnight". and suddenly he did NOT want the new room. He was relieved to be sent to bed in the safety and comfort of his OLD room right next to mom and dad's. I'll have to say he's a little on edge this morning and I believe it's because of the change. He did okay with Missy not being in his room, but I don't think he liked waking up this morning to find himself the only one in the room.

For those who are interested, the church is looking WAY different! We still have a long ways to go before we can meet there again, but it's nice to actually see a difference and now we have an offer on the school... so if it does indeed sell, we'll be back to meeting with Valley View, I think.