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I sometimes wonder how I am going to make it. 12 hours shifts, on your feet most of the day. I see older, more experienced nurses and they are sitting and chatting. All of their work is done in a timely manner and their charting is up to date. I on the other hand am [...]

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Oakdale has some crazy taggers…

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Tonight I took the oldest boy I used to be a nanny for and 2 of his friends to the 311 and Matisyahu concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl. It was a good concert and I really liked Matisyahu, but towards the end I found myself yawning. Everyone around us was drunk or high and [...]

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I have heard that some people want ice cream, snow cones or Otter Pops constantly when they are pregnant. Other than the Its-It thing my main craving has been meat. I woke up this morning and was thinking of bacon. We didn’t have bacon at home so I went to Cajun Kitchen for breakfast and [...]

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Last week I was craving an It’s-Its. If you’re from the SF Bay Area you know what I’m talking about. It is an oatmeal cookie/vanilla ice cream/dipped in chocolate, party for your mouth. www.itsiticecream.com When we were kids driving from Hayward to San Francisco we would pass the It’s It factory and see the big [...]

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We knew awhile back ago that we had outgrown our little 1 bedroom apartment. Tadd thought we would possibly be able to live here till the baby was a few months old and save money for a house. I thought that was RICKDICALOUS (SNL anyone? http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/ – mea=45403) Evidently Tadd thought the baby could live [...]

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Have you ever tried to find a good tadpole picture? It is hard to do. I found nothing cool – only pictures like this and this. Doesn’t looking for tadpole pictures seem like a 4th grade science project? Ok, maybe 3rd grade. I swear that I have done this in the past few years for [...]

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Our good friends Brent and Michelle were due to have their baby on September 20th, but their son Grant had other plans. Tadd and I were going to throw them a co-ed baby shower BBQ on August 11th but Grant was born 7 weeks early on July 31st. We were going to postpone till a [...]

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Today we saw the specialist. We were supposed to do sequential testing for genetic defects, but I fell into the rare category of “We can perform the test if you’re diabetic or having twins. We cannot perform the test on a diabetic having twins”. At first that made no sense to me but I was [...]

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There are a couple of things I like about this video Tadd essentially daring the OB to try and figure out the gender of the twins Tadd’s Beavis and Butthead laugh when we figure out one of them I want you to notice that I am very demure and just watching. Until the end when [...]

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