Wow, when I signed into blogger today the words "last published June 3" was looming on my start page. I have been neglecting my blog... I guess I've had writers block for the last little bit, or maybe it is because now that Jason is a crawling machine he is burning up his fuel and has required a bottle in the middle of the night again. This makes for one very cranky mommy the next day. I have always been a person who has required a lot of sleep or I turn into the green-eyed monster. So I tried another one of my mommy tricks. We have now added another feeding of cereal with his bed time bottle and presto... we have successful slumber through the night. It really gives me instant gratification when my baby is sleeping.

In other news, I am continuing to make my own baby food with rave reviews by the little one. Thanks to my trusty recipe book "Easy Gourmet Baby Food" I've made delightful concoctions such as; roasted sweet potato puree, pureed sweet peas, oven roasted banana (yum my fav) and today it is caramelized parsnips. We'll see if JR can digest it. He did inherit daddy's weak digestive tract. I highly recommend making your own food. I know exactly how it is cooked and what is in it. Jason seems to like it too. I'm hoping exposing him to many different yummy foods I'll be rid of the pickiness that comes naturally to young children. In my case, till my mid 20s. I'm really enjoying trying new foods, but my weight-loss quest really limits the variety of food I can eat. I guess once I reach my goal I can partake in some different foods once in a while. Short term sacrifice for long term gain I guess. But I've really been craving a chocolate dipped soft serve cone from Dairy Queen lately. I wonder what's up with that? mmmm ice cream...

Look who's crawling!

Or a reasonable facsimile there of.

I was at work last night. Just for four hours, that's all we are allowed to work when we are on Mat-leave. You must be thinking, why on earth would she be working while on Mat-leave? Well the answer to that is simple, EXTRA CASH! Yes we Canadians are lucky in that we get a whole year off, but it is a whole year off making next to nothing. When I started looking into the whole maternity leave thing I was under the understanding that you would make 60% of you wage. WRONG! If you make over a certain amount you make the max which is 40% of my wage. If you make 50,000 a year or if you make 500,000 a year we all get the same amount. I really believe this is not fair. Don't get me started... I think I may start a letter writing campagin. Watch for that coming soon. I'll have to enlist my hubby as he is a fantastic writer.

So here I was at work last night, I guess I really can't complain. It allows me to get out and use my brain for a little while. But I sure am rusty, I was asked to grab some morphine for a patient and couldn't remember if I use a 3cc syringe or a 1cc syringe to draw it up. I'm sure if I did more than 4 hours every few weeks it would all come back to me, nursing is like riding a bike.

We had a GSW come in (that's Emerg speak for Gun Shot Wound). This man was shot in the face. So out of morbid curiosity I trodded down to the OR where they were getting ready to work on him. Not pretty... that's for sure. But while I was peeking over the surgeon's shoulder I was thinking, Man... I do have a pretty cool job. I get to see stuff like this. I won't describe what I saw In case some of you are squeemish. Being a nurse I have forgotten where the line is when describing some of the things I have been involved in and grossed out a few friends to say the least. But I will say this, this guy will never look the same.