Sunday, January 28, 2007

Just Me and the Kids

I got to spend some quality "mommy time" with the kiddos this weekend. Scot was out at a parent and kid convention the last couple of days to promote his DVD for work. Yesterday was so cold that we stayed inside and played games and stayed cozy by the fireplace. Today was much better weather wise, so we went out and played in the snow. Kyle and Emily particularly liked it when they tackled me in the snow! I must admit, I liked it too. It brought out the kid in me :)

The mommy time was extra great because this past week, I was on-call for work and the phone was crazy, so I felt like I didn't get to see them very much. Yep, the first night I got the phone, all was going well until 8pm when I got a call that some of the kids in one of the residences ran away, followed by a call about a girl from another residence who slashed her arm and needed stitches. After that, I was on the phone for 3 hours straight trying to make staffing and other arrangements! The next night was not much better since the same girl needed to go back to the hospital, but was refusing to do so and needed to be brought by the police. The last of the calls that night came at about 12:50am. And of course, after that, I had a hard time falling back asleep because I kept expecting the phone to ring again!

No news yet on the clinical supervisor position. I'm still waiting to find out when the interviews will be. I'm hearing that they will be within the next couple of weeks, so we'll see what happens.

This week promises to be busy too. On Friday, we're having Kyle's b-day party for his friends at school. Then, Saturday, we're going to my mom's for a b-day supper for me. Then Sunday, we're having a party for Kyle with all the family. And our birthdays are not actually until next week (mine on Feb. 6, Kyle's on Feb. 7), so I'm thinking it will be 2 very busy weeks! But, hey, it's a fun kind of busy, so I don't mind!

Friday, January 19, 2007

My 2007 so far

Happy Belated New Year to everyone! Is it REALLY already the middle of January? I swear time passes by faster every year!

Anyways, I've got some new stuff going on that I thought I would share with you all. First of all, at work, they have internally posted for the clinical supervisor position, and I decided to submit my resume. This position has been vacant since the Spring when the former supervisor left and it has been really tough on the clinical team to be working without a supervisor. We've kind of been relying on each other to bounce ideas off 0f. In my opinion, whoever the new supervisor will be has big shoes to fill. Our last supervisor was awesome and she really knew her stuff. Plus, she had a clinical psychology Ph.D and lots of experience working in the field. I could go to her with questions or issues about my clients and feel confident that I would get good advice. It's weird because although I think I would be a good candidate, in comparison to her, I still have so much to learn! I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. If they do choose me, I'm planning to see if I can work 3-4 days per week until I'm done my Ph.D which will likely be around September (HUGE yay!!) and then move into the position full time. I'll keep you posted...

Right before Christmas, I got an email reminder that it's time to start thinking about registering for the 10K race coming up in May. I'm definitely going to enter and my goal this year is to beat last year's time. I'm in the process of planning out my training schedule. A friend from work who is a runner recommended the Runner's World magazine website that gives great training advice, schedules and tips for races of various distances, including the 10K. So I'm using some of the info there to come up with a master plan. Up until last week, we hardly had any snow so I was doing some runs outside, but this week, we got hit with snow and much colder weather, so I'm going to have to start planning some treadmill workouts. I have to say that overall, the last few months have sucked workout and nutrition wise, so starting to plan for this 10K has gotten me excited about shaping up again. I'm going to have to take some more dreaded before shots (sigh!) so that I can really see my progress over the weeks. Once my training plan is finalized, I will post it here.

I hope you are all doing well and keeping up with any resolutions you made :)