My Grandpa Kirk told me the twins had his Viking blood, hence the reason they were such tough little fighters. Last night his old Viking heart gave out. A man who survived a horrific shipwreck did not survive lung cancer. His seafaring years exposed him to chemicals meant to make ships fireproof, but made men [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Family'
Valhalla
December 11th, 2007 · 9 Comments
Yeah I missed a day, I know
November 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
There is a dentist office in Michigan that was probably in a tizzy that we didn’t post anything yesterday. We have some very dedicated readers you know! Yesterday was kind of like the day before. Loen was looking stable, while Derby needed a little more help. Same issues of blood pressure, increased blood sugar and [...]
Shipwreck
October 10th, 2007 · 13 Comments
My Grandpa Kirk is an old Okie. Even though he had been in California for longer than he lived in Oklahoma he still has the thickest accent, it is slow and smoky. Kind of like if whiskey had a voice. He drove a red truck with a brass spittoon on the floor, he always had [...]
And I did it the haaaaaaaarrdd way
October 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’ve always been the one to go the steeper route, the harder way, the road less traveled. Usually it was not by choice I just seem to navigate that way. Prime examples: Everyone would get strep throat as a kid, I got scarlet fever. I had a hemoglobin of 5 (for you non-medical folks norms [...]
Tags: Family · friends with babies · Housing · twins
Maybe I’m not crazy
September 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Lately I’ve been wondering what the hell I was thinking when I decided to become a nurse. The floor has been SO busy with constant admits and discharges, everyday there is 5 patients to a nurse (legally that is the most you can be assigned). I wasn’t sure if I was cut out for it. [...]
Tags: exhaustion · Family · fetal movement · nursing · twins
Boys
September 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments
I was a nanny to 3 adorable, albeit wild boys for 10 years. I’ve seen my fair share of testosterone based actions. These were kids that would bring me to tears some days, (they like to blame it on another sibling now when they reminisce: “Remember when J*** made you cry” to which I have [...]
Tags: boys · Family · testosterone
The Rundown
September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
I’ve been meaning to write a post about going to visit my parents and the past week, but exhaustion and my lifelong problem with procrastination has kept me from it. We also meant to takes lots of pictures of everyone but ended up with 50 of my nephew. Did I mention I didn’t get my [...]
