What a beautiful weekend!! Tonight is my last of four nights off in a row, which is truly a mini-vacation for me, and it was so gorgeous out today that we had to head to the park for a little picnic!! It was a good "dig your toes in the sand" kind of day...
I spent a couple days in the east Bay at an Ortho conference with some girls from work and got back last night (part of the mini-vacation was no laundry or dishes for 28 hours!!) Giuliana and I drove down on Thursday night before the conference and did a little shopping and sushi-feasting at a great place in Walnut Creek - LOVE that little town! Just has a lot of charm and personality.... I notice that alot lately about towns, they're sort of like people, with their own quirks and uniquenesses and special traits. Maybe it's just the architecture of the buildings or the land-scape and natural beauty, but for some reason I notice it more. Maybe I have a travel bug!! :)
Anyway, the conference was good (John Muir Health), lots of interesting speakers, but it was a very full day. It used to be a 2-day conference and they just did one this year, so it felt very condensed. The biggest disappointment was no free goodies handed out by the reps. They decided it was illegal.... Such a bummer because free pens that look like bones are really quite awesome.
Hearing the different physicians speak really did make me appreciate what they/we do all over again from a fresh perspecitve - it's such a special scope of practice. I'm ashamed to say my favorite parts of the lectures were anything that showed gross and unbelievable pictures of broken bones and weird conditions, but please feel better knowing that I was happy when there were good endings and "see, this is how we fixed it" stories. I'm not totally messed up. Oh, Nurses Week is coming up soon, too, by the way! Just thought I'd throw that in.... :)
The best part was coming home last night and having lots of little people run up to me with outstretched arms. That NEVER gets old! Rea's first comments to me were, "Look Mommy! Daddy did my hair today! Isn't it pretty?!" Indeed it certainly was - good job, Honey!!
So today was filled with lots of fun little moments like painting the girls' nails, going to the park, baking a cake for a certain birthday girl for tomorrow's big event, and making a run to Target for trash bags. The latter may not sound very exciting, but I must add that our local Target is expanding to a Target Greatland, and that thought alone makes my heart beat faster. (One-stop shopping IS every mother's dream....)
Enough gabbing for now, I need to go wash some sand out of a LOT of hair....
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