good stuff and school stuff - not the same thing these days
* Charlotte has learned how to blow kisses, although she never does them on command, of course.
* Charlotte didn't settle down to sleep last night until after 2 a.m. I finally had to put her in a front carry in the Moby and rock her to sleep on my chest. We "slept" like that until 6-ish, then I left her with Jack and I slept downstairs on the couch with the monitor turned off.
* I slept until 8:30 and left Jack to get the girls off to school, then Julia phoned at noon to say her lunchbox was empty! She hadn't taken it out of her backpack yesterday and since Jack didn't see it, he assumed her lunch was made or else just didn't think of it. She came home for lunch instead.
* Jack and I went to the greenhouse tonight and bought another yellow rose bush. Despite our best efforts, Abby's rosebush from last year didn't survive the winter either :-( Better luck this year?
* This afternoon I sat out on my patio with a cold drink and did school work while Julia and her friend ran through the sprinkler. I had to move the sprinkler for them a couple of times; walking through the cool wet grass felt good after having them on the warm stones of the patio.
* I submitted a section of my Complications course to be marked. I have a little more reading and the *&%$# research paper to do and then I'm done that course.
* I discovered this morning that I have to write our national midwifery exam this September after all. I can't put it off since writing it is a graduation requirement. Yet another chicken-and-the-egg situation for me.
* Since Canada is bringing in the Bridging Program for internationally trained midwives, it will replace the PLEA. As of right now, the Bridging Program will not recognize my school as an "approved" program. Our school president and a handful of students are working to change this, but for now this changes my own plans to apply to the Bridging Program this year. If I go ahead and apply to PLEA through Alberta now, write the national exam in September, then plan to write the clinical exam next year I should be ok and have no problem getting registered (provided I pass). If I wait until I can apply to the Bridging Program, I run the risk that they still won't have approved my school and I will not be accepted AND the PLEA would not be an option anymore. So basically, I'm slipping in under the wire and this is my one and only shot to do this.
* If MCU is somehow able to beef up their programs to meet the requirements for the Bridging Program, this may mean a lot of changes to their programs. Mandatory in-person, on-site classes? Higher tuition? More clinical and academic credits/hours needed to graduate? Who knows. I hope the changes come into effect after I'm done.
* I have three months to finish all of my clinical requirements (in Utah), fill out and submit my PLEA paperwork, finish my academic classes, study for my national written exam. And I have no childcare. And Jack is going to gone working up north a lot this summer. And summer is coming when my kids will be out of school and home with me all the time - bored, fighting, helpful, needy - oy.
* on that note, I'm off to change a poopy diaper, put Charlotte to bed, and bury myself in school work for several hours.
* Charlotte didn't settle down to sleep last night until after 2 a.m. I finally had to put her in a front carry in the Moby and rock her to sleep on my chest. We "slept" like that until 6-ish, then I left her with Jack and I slept downstairs on the couch with the monitor turned off.
* I slept until 8:30 and left Jack to get the girls off to school, then Julia phoned at noon to say her lunchbox was empty! She hadn't taken it out of her backpack yesterday and since Jack didn't see it, he assumed her lunch was made or else just didn't think of it. She came home for lunch instead.
* Jack and I went to the greenhouse tonight and bought another yellow rose bush. Despite our best efforts, Abby's rosebush from last year didn't survive the winter either :-( Better luck this year?
* This afternoon I sat out on my patio with a cold drink and did school work while Julia and her friend ran through the sprinkler. I had to move the sprinkler for them a couple of times; walking through the cool wet grass felt good after having them on the warm stones of the patio.
* I submitted a section of my Complications course to be marked. I have a little more reading and the *&%$# research paper to do and then I'm done that course.
* I discovered this morning that I have to write our national midwifery exam this September after all. I can't put it off since writing it is a graduation requirement. Yet another chicken-and-the-egg situation for me.
* Since Canada is bringing in the Bridging Program for internationally trained midwives, it will replace the PLEA. As of right now, the Bridging Program will not recognize my school as an "approved" program. Our school president and a handful of students are working to change this, but for now this changes my own plans to apply to the Bridging Program this year. If I go ahead and apply to PLEA through Alberta now, write the national exam in September, then plan to write the clinical exam next year I should be ok and have no problem getting registered (provided I pass). If I wait until I can apply to the Bridging Program, I run the risk that they still won't have approved my school and I will not be accepted AND the PLEA would not be an option anymore. So basically, I'm slipping in under the wire and this is my one and only shot to do this.
* If MCU is somehow able to beef up their programs to meet the requirements for the Bridging Program, this may mean a lot of changes to their programs. Mandatory in-person, on-site classes? Higher tuition? More clinical and academic credits/hours needed to graduate? Who knows. I hope the changes come into effect after I'm done.
* I have three months to finish all of my clinical requirements (in Utah), fill out and submit my PLEA paperwork, finish my academic classes, study for my national written exam. And I have no childcare. And Jack is going to gone working up north a lot this summer. And summer is coming when my kids will be out of school and home with me all the time - bored, fighting, helpful, needy - oy.
* on that note, I'm off to change a poopy diaper, put Charlotte to bed, and bury myself in school work for several hours.