new year - new women

hello ladies -
it's funny how i still check this site every week and yet find it so difficult to write a quick post. life gets too chaotic....especially with the three girls. carys is going on 11mo and is still the sweetest thing ever. have a feeling that this is all a show - one day she'll be 16, covered in tatoos, and raiding the liquor cabinet :) she started walking at 9 1/2mo and is a full-fledged thumb sucker. avery will be starting kindergarten in august (god willing !!). she still has a very strong lisp but i will be contacting a speech therapist this week. last year they evaluated her and said it was normal and that she would outgrow it. now i just worry that other kids will tease her and that adults will treat her as a baby. overall, though, avery is my handful. stubborn, sensitive, more stubborn. pretty much me at age 4. oh hell. reily is doing well. very, very hyper but happy. she is a gem with her little sisters. as for me, busting my ass at work. it appears that i am the floating queen of the hospital. i am charge nurse (running the unit) half the time on any of the 3 med-surg floors. i also do telemetry (heart) monitoring for ~ 70 patients. also floated to ICU, CCU, PACU, TATU, BMT, Peds, etc. i'm technically a cardiac nurse but half the time i'm put somewhere else. it confuses the hell out of the MD's. last week they unofficially asked me if i would want to be a supervisor on 7 but i respecfully declined. 7 is an ortho/trach floor and i am a cardiac RN. surgery patients make my ass itch :) we may have an opening for a supervisor on my floor this year which i would LOVE to have but i think that they would chose someone else. there is another nurse with 4 more months of experience than me (even though i have floated to more diverse units more often). she is also more pliable whereas i speak my mind. but we shall see what the future holds
long enough post for now. you are all in my heart and i think of ya'll often. especially everyone up north 'cause i know you're FREEZING YOUR ASSES OFF !!!!

xoxo
kri