We're No Longer.....

A two van family! When we bought our new van a few months ago, we were still pretty upside-down in our old van so we decided to just keep it and continue paying on it. We traded it in last night and finally got a new car! Just in time too, the van was leaking and there was a mysterious noise coming from the steering wheel. Hmmm.....

Anyway, we got a new car! We decided on a Honda because my brother-in-law has one and really loves it. Plus, they are great on gas, and with gas prices approaching $4 a gallon, that's a must!

It took us about 3 hours from the time we walked in until the time we drove out of there. I attribute that to doing our shopping online, knowing EXACTLY the car we wanted and the price we needed it to be at. The people at San Tan Honda were wonderful. We brought all three kids. They had an enclosed play area and free drinks and snacks. My kids were happy, which means we were happy.

In the end, we walked out with the car we wanted at (almost) the price we wanted. We added in warranties and the alarm.

The car is a 2009 Honda Accord with 16K miles on it. It is black (the ONLY thing I didn't like but that's okay, it had everything else we wanted), tan leather interior, navigation, blue tooth, heated seats, sun roof, all the options. It's a really nice car! So happy to have a smaller car to drive when I don't have the kids with me. Bryan's happy to drive it to work too. No more 2 vans! Yay!

Here's the car....

Working Is A Lot Harder Than I Thought!

I never ever thought being a working mom would be easy but it's a lot harder than I expected. My job itself is demanding but the most difficult part of working is the time I am missing with my kids! I miss them like CRAZY. Connor had his first field trip yesterday and I was unable to attend because I had a class. :( I am off today, tomorrow and Saturday. I spent today trying to catch up on chores, parent/teacher conferences and we're going car-shopping tonight. I did get to spend some quality time with my kids though. This morning I took Drew and Taylor to McDonalds to play for breakfast and this afternoon I played the game "Life" with Connor and Andrew. It makes me sad that I am missing that time with them....time that I will never get back. I am just lucky that I got to spend the last 6 years of my life at home with them though. Hopefully once my training is finished, it will get easier!



Speaking of training. Holy breastfeeding classes, Batman. I think I pretty much know all there is to know about breastfeeding at this point. A big part of my job is educating families. I'm so glad I have the education myself to be able to teach these women. It does get hard though to sit through 4+ hour training classes on breastfeeding. I've breastfed for 3+ years of my life.....it gets a bit repetitive. They should be requiring these classes of the new parents! That would make my job a whole lot easier. Imagine....a world of new moms that don't say things like "I'm not producing any milk (on their 1st post-partum day)" or "the baby doesn't like breastfeeding, he likes the bottle better". Really folks?

Besides the fact that I am missing my kids and husband, my job is going awesome. So far I have received 4 Star Recognition nominations since I've started. A Star Recognition is when a patient nominates you because you were an outstanding nurse. They have to write a short paragraph on why they nominated you and then you get put into a drawing at the end of the year for a free vacation. Last year was a cruise to Alaska. I'm winning this year....I decided. :)