Robin's Nest

Sad but true folks I got up this morning rushed to get ready for work, headed out the door stopped at the closest Walmart market for a few things I knew we needed at work and some stuff we didn't need.  Got there three minutes before clock in time rushed to the fourth floor only to find that another nurse was there! YAY! An unexpected day off! Actually I thought she was supposed to work tomorrow not today but hey I am not complaining!  I talked to her for a bit then decided today I would get the lights for our tree at work, pick up another thing I had forgotten, and oh yes get my driver's license replaced!  For about a week now I have been unable to find several things and the last place that I could remember having any of them was in my car.  Normally this would not even phase me since I now lock it every time I leave it. However, my husband also uses the same car and he does not lock it. So there is no telling if my things are just misplaced or...Fast forward five ...

Wow! This month has flown by.  It is time to do end of the month chores at work and it seems we just barely did the beginning of the month chores.  The holidays are in full swing and Christmas will be upon us in no time.  We currently have 41 residents at my work and I am not sure what to get them.  I like it to be individual but then sometimes getting everyone the same thing works out to be less costly. Last year I made everyone a rice sock heating pad.  Now I will probably make the same thing for the new residents this year but the old ones need something too...  I have had various ideas throughout the year but nothing that seems to shout out to me.  There are some who the choice is easy and others are just like buying for family...you know "what in the world do I get them". It is the first Sunday of Advent and I think of all things I am thankful for, grandkids and birthdays! Being able to live in a land where we can do or be anything. It...

Happy Black Friday! Have you ever been out on Black Friday? Fighting the crowds, being run over by shoppers who think these deals will never happen again? I went once about ten years ago.  That experience was less than fun.. I could hardly move the cart through the aisles, I did get the item I went after but I felt like a minnow in a shark tank!  In retrospect it wasn't even that great of a deal. Since that very day I just decided it wasn't something I would rush to do again.  I have purchased a few "black" Friday deals since but a) not at the crack of dawn, b) not the day of Thanksgiving and c) only because I was in the store for something else and happen to run across a "leftover" you know one that someone missed... This year I had mulled over many ideas of what to give the adult children and the grands, but haven't really settled on anything specific.  The adult kids have everything they could possibly want or need and the so too for the grandkids...

Today has been  the second of two days off in the last 20+ days from my day job.  It is the first day that I did not physically go to my place of employment and do something for one resident or another. As I sit at the table and decide what to do with this valuable time I have my mind goes blank...probably from the overwhelming amount of things I am behind on! The list of what needs to be done is so long, just to sit and write it out would take both of my days off without interruptions...  The odds of that happening are slim to none! So today I went to King Soopers this morning to get part of our bi weekly grocery haul and spent 29.81 not too bad for being able to get most of our holiday and winter shelf stable things. That total included a 14 pound turkey, 4 pints of fresh raspberries, 5 two liter Vernors ginger ale, 1 two liter orange soda, 1 two liter 7up, 4 two liter A&W Root beers and 1 two liter Squirt and 3 quarts of fresh buttermilk and last b...

You know you have been neglecting the blog when you can't even find your way in! The summer flew by and it is Fall already..we have done a bit of homeschooling over the summer and are trying to hit the books full force now. We are moving on to first grade in some areas and continuing kindergarten in others. Another move we made was to take the six year old off the medication that she had been on for almost three years.. not sure if this is a pro or a con for us. But we felt with us homeschooling there was more ability to be flexible with how she learns and allow her to learn structure in a more flexible environment. May not make sense in how it sounds but controlling her with meds isn't working. We are struggling some days but for the most part she has fewer meltdowns off the medication than she did on the medication. At home we can stop what we are doing and change course and it helps...in a classroom with nineteen other children and one teacher you cannot always do that. So w...

Play doh... Surely it was invented by a carpet company! My 2 year old Grand daughter loves play-doh! She is conscious enough to keep it on the table and not make a huge mess... at home that is. Gramma's house is a different story because my littles take their play-doh everywhere and it is a mess!  Don't get me wrong I have tried to enforce the keep it on the table or else rule but when you work full time and the person in charge when you are gone doesn't enforce the same... well it just goes awry anyway! They love the stuff it keeps them busy for at least 30 minutes, it improves their dexterity and sticks to the carpet in a bad way :)  We are homeschooling right now and most days we get something done but not everyday is a full education day. They are preschool and kindergarten right now, my daughter wants us to put them back in public school so that she can send her daughter to preschool with our youngest... I don't want to put mine back into the system. However, I a...

I got up today got ready for work just like any other day that I am running late...forgot that it was mother's day. Did not remember to send any cards.. even though I bought them weeks ago. Here it is almost nine o'clock at night and I didn't even text any of my sisters to wish them well today. I can't remember much these days....in my last post titled cell phones, chickens and hot cocoa I never mentioned chickens or hot cocoa lol. Probably could not remember what I was going to say about them at the time.  But just to recap a bit the chickens have been fenced in on top now, they have a large yard and a fairly large henhouse. We have lost quite a few hens in the past to owls and other mishaps That was mother's day and it is now June 1st, as I began to blog this morning I realized that so much has happened since I took time to write that one post may not be enough to cover it all. But that said here goes... They have finally opened a spot for another nurse in my de...