The Life Of MommaP, As Told By MommaP.

Well, my hubby is pissed. I had a manic moment this morning and decided to buy a ticket to go to Greenville. When I found out last night that Erica was going, then I saw the plans starting to be put into motion and I saw that I was not going to be a part of them. I had a pit in my stomach and I mentioned it to my hubby this morning around 7:30 a.m. He tells me that since the show is on our daughter's 5th bday, I should not go. I should just be satisfied with going to Richmond, VA on the 18th and not worry about going to the Greenville show. Well, I was upset and we argued some. Well, he left for work around 8:30 a.m. and he smiled at me and told me not to worry about it. Well, I emailed my aunt and asked could she drive to Richmond, checked the distance from my house to Greenville, figured out when the bishes were going to be there, put together a plan, and said what the hell and bought my ticket. Well, I texted my bishes and of course they are excited for me to do so. I ...

Today was another day at work and tomorrow will be another day. I just don't understand. If I work so much overtime, how come I can do 5* for a NKOTB show? Hmmm, makes you wonder. Maybe it's the 4 kids, house, etc.

This video came out today. It's my fav song on this whole album. It's so real and speaks about relationships, and it helps that some HOT men are singing it. I love this video. I worked Sunday night 12 hours and I had planned on just coming home and going to bed Monday morning, but then I get a twitter that the video is posted and off I go running! I think hubby got mad because I had told him he was on his own with the kids for school this morning, but I helped get them ready and watched the video. I am in love all over again. This only adds to my excitement because in 22 days I will be seeing them again in Richmond, VA! I can't wait. This song is so real. "I know you must have had a long day, because at 6 o clock I heard you say. There was something that was on your mind, you ain't told me and it's almost 9." skip ahead:"the lights are out, don't wanna wake you so i'm creeping in. I know you're hurt, because baby you're not...

I am seriously thinking of finding another job. I think I would be stupid to do so in this economy, but I am fed up with a lot of the same old crap that keeps hapenning. If I leave, would I deal with some of the same issues in another work place? Same issues, different place? I love what I do, I have some awesome co-workers, and all, but I wonder should I try to do something different to experience what is out there? Am I just accepting things as they are and not expecting them to get better? Should things get better? Is it just me? I can't complain because if I need time off then I can usually get it, but it's more than that to a job.

I find myself thinking:"How can I get to more shows this spring? How can I get more facetime?" I find myself breathing NKOTB most of the day. Why is that? I pretty much feel like my one chance at meeting them was last October and i will not get that chance ever again. But, something keeps pulling at me telling me that I will get the chance to meet them again and that I need to keep going to shows so that I can double my chances. Am I crazy? I'm not that creative and coming up with ideas of how I can score facetime are just not clicking with me. I got a "funny feeling" that I may leave Richmond disappointed. I don't want to leave there with no facetime. Honestly, if I don't get any, I'm seriously considering calling into work the next night so that I can follow the buses to Baltimore. Maybe I will get lucky then. See, thoughts like those are just insane or are they? HELP!!!!!!

Yesterday I get home from taking yet another child to the doctor and I see where we can now call and leave a message for NKOTB. You have got to be effin kiddin me! So, of course I dial the number, listen to Joe's heavenly voice speak, and here comes time for me to leave a message. Now, I'm all choked up and sick and sound like a bull frog talking. My message is something like:"Hey I saw you guys in DC and Charlotte, coming to Richmond to check you out again. Been a fan for so long and I need some facetime." Then I put my 10 year old on the phone, and I"m coaxing him the whole time as to what to say. He says:"My mom is your biggest fan and she needs some passes. Oh yeah, soundcheck passes, backstage passes (i'm whispering this to him), facetime, whaever. Just hook her up. Ok, bye." All the while my 4 year old daughter is screaming in the background:"I wanna talk to New Kids!" My 17 year old is laughing his butt off at me and my 8 year old...

Well, tonight I am exhasuted and I'm sad. Today I was working a 16 hour shift, and I decided to run downstairs to another unit where 2 of my favorite residents are. They are "my men." I have thought a lot of them since I have worked there. Well, I find out one of them, "C," is in the hospital VERY sick. Then another, "S," was also in the hospital. I knew that S was in the hospital, but I had planned to go visit him in the morning with the children. His eyes always lit up when my children came around. He and his wife only had one child. Well, I find out that S had died this evening. I am still so much in shock. This man was the kindest, funniest man I have ever been in contact with. We used to laugh and carry on. He wasn't a man of many words, and couldn't talk, due to a stroke he had, but he could get out what he wanted to say. He would get so mad over something and he could get the cuss words out perfect. Shit was one of his favo...

Ya know, I've been pondering something the last couple of days. Do I really need to change me? One of my bosses seems to think so. Now, don't get me wrong, I really do respect her opinion, but then again, I respect me too. Here's the deal. Yes, I am very loud at times. I do know when to control that. I don't take any shit off of anyone and everyone who knows me knows that. So, I guess that can be considered disrespectful, or is it? I am 29 years old. Up until the age of 23, I really did let people walk all over top of me. I hated high school because of things I had to put up with. Kids are just plain mean. Graduate, start hanging with the wrong crew, who were using me for my car. Get involved with a BOY who is a piece of crap and leaves me pregnant and broke. Ya know, but I rose above ALL of this. Began working my ass off, taking care of my child, met a wonderful man who was willing to step back and let me grow up a lil while he just loved me, and I began to find out wh...

1) the front of your scrubs reads "Nurses... here to save your ass, not kiss it!" (I have a shirt that says that....) 2) you occasionally park in the space with the "physicians only" sign... and knock it over. 3) you believe some patients are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. (I've said this....) 4) you recognize that you can't cure stupid. (very true!) 5) you own at least three pens with the names of prescription medications on them. (I do! and they write so damn good!) 6) you believe there's a special place in hell forthe inventor of the call light. 7) you believe that saying "it can't get any worse" causes it to get worse just to show you it can. (Been there, done that!) 8) you wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom. (YEP!) 9) you believe that any job where you can drive to work in your pajamas is a cool one. 10) you consider a tongue depressor an eating utensil. (YES) 11) eating microwav...

This is me (center) when I graduated as a Practical Nurse on December 11, 2007. I'm here with my mom (R) and Barbara (L). A Nursing Crisis Fact Sheet by LeAnn Thieman-yeah I stole it! But read it!!! Most nurses didn't choose their career because of the great hours, pay, and working conditions! They were called by a need to serve - to give of their hearts and hands, compassionate and thorough patient care. But these values are threatened today with the changes in the delivery of health care. Facts: Over 126,000 nursing positions are unfilled in hospitals. Nurse shortages are even more acute in long-term care facilities and home-health care agencies. By 2015, it is estimated the U.S.A. will be short 500,000 nurses. By 2020, 65% of the population will be 65 or older. It is predicted we will lack 700,000 nurses to care for them. The need for healthcare workers will triple by 2050. The average age of the nurse today is 46. Of the 2.7 million RNs in this country, 83% are employed i...

Missy Prissy The Austinator Levi on the soccer field-that's where he always is. Matt and Cody after getting their state champs rings and new varsity coats. Well, here I am, up again. Third shift really screws with your sleeping. I fell fast asleep in the recliner last night at 7 p.m. I got up around 2, and I've been up ever since. I know today I've got a few errands to run, and I'm going back to bed. But, I loaded up some new photos tonight and I'm just really feeling so blessed, and I just wanted to share it. Well, last night ws Matt's football banquet. Those boys really worked for those state rings and coats. I'm so proud of all of them. I'm so thankful that I have been allowed the chance to have Matt in my life to share this experience with him. This is so awesome. The town is so proud of these boys, and they should be. I'm thankful to be involved as well. This is an awesome time. Matt is an awesome child. You could not ask for a more well man...

He's the oldest and he looks like trouble. LOL How could I be mad at these angels? Today I am home-gotta go to work around 4 p.m. I'm siting here writing this blog as I had promised my husband I would do. I have 3 children home sick with all sorts of yuckiness, a filthy house, and I'm wondering, did I shave my legs for this? LOL. I'm blogging because I'm pissed off that on my time off I find myself cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. even though I work a full time job for 5 other capable people. Why do I find myself doing this? This seems to be the same complaint I have on my family every month. Could it be that I complain around the same time that my hormones are effin' crazy? Maybe. Could it be that I just reach my fed up point around the same time every month? Maybe. Am I just crazy? Maybe. Do I have OCD? Yes, definately. But, why would this mother, who is trying to teach her children responsibility, respect for themselves and property, and all of the importa...

Hubby and I at Myrtle Beach on vacation June 2008. Ok, got a funny story that I just have to share with you all. I know my hubby will read this, when he decides to log in. LOL! When reading this, keep in mind that I am a big NKOTB fan and I have been watching and listening to nothing but for the last couple of weeks. My kids know the words to Valentine Girl, Right Stuff, Hangin Tough, and Please Don't Go Girl. They also know which one is which! No one can't say I'm not taking time with the kids, and even giving them a lil history lesson on the late 80's early 90's. Well, Tuesday night at home I'm at my kitchen table after dinner, getting ready to study some humanities. Well, I get on myspace and see my fav band NKOTB has posted new links for the Wal-Mart sound check and 4 song stream. Well, I decided to watch that first, before homework. I mean, cmon, it's NKOTB. Kids hav eaten, their homework is done, and they are playing througout the house. I'm inte...

Krissily is on the left, with her new sister Megan and brother Grayson. Mine and "PeeWee's" aunt Lisa is rasing Krissily now. Me finally getting to go and see the guys is coming true. I can't wait. I have dreamed for years and years about going to see the guys. I always wanted to go and see them in concert, and never could. I will attend my first show in October 2 in DC, and my second show on October 30 in Charlotte, NC. Now is a good time in my life. Don't get me wrong-I have four wonderful children, a husband who loves me unconditionally, a great career, beautiful home, great friends. BUT, with NKOTB coming back, I feel complete. I feel complete because I can finally get to achieve a lifelong dream of seeing the guys. I have this excited and this feeling inside me when I think about NKOTB and getting to go see them in concert. Friends and even hubby think I'm crazy and obsessed. My fellow blockheads-please tell me what I am? Do you get this same feeling ab...

My new besty Amber (Amah) at INDEBLEU. We had a blast! Joey and beer-what a great combination! Me with my beer at the Green Turtle. These are Michelle and Lisa-two Maryland blockheads! DC was the effin bomb! I had the best time. Me and Amber met some blockheads outside the arena-they liked my buttons and I like their vintage tshirts! We went to Green Turtle and the blockheads who had met us outside came in and had a bite with us. Michelle and Lisa were their names and they are awesome chicks! While in the bathroom at the Green Turtl, my phone rang "Please Don't Girl"-my fav song and my text tone-me and Amber serenaded the girls in the bathroom at the Green Turtle. Then we walked over to INDEBLEU so we would know where it was. The manager there confirmed they were expecting DEW! Back to the arena for more serenading in line. Amber and I sang old and new stuff. Once we got into the arena, time for merchandise!!! Then off to our AWESOME floor seats. We sang with Colby Odo...

Thursday, October 30, 2008 was the best day of my life. Well beside getting married, having babies, becoming a nurse, and just being alive. I am so thankful for my new friends, who are true friends because they looked out for me, and I'm thankful that good deeds don't go unnoticed. Myself, Jenn (MissFlipFlop), Amber (Amah), Erin, and Katrina were at the arena at 7 a.m. Thursday morning and we got there just as the buses were coming in. So, that began our day of camping at the arena. Our first AWWW moment was when the nanny brought Griffin McIntyre to the front of the bus and he was smiling and waving at us. He just knew we were there for him, and yes I think I love him as much as I love his daddy! So, we began jammin out to New Kids hits all morning. We did see different family members of the guys, etc.etc. I have to leave some parts out of this, but the ones who were with me know what happened. Later in the day, Danny came out on a van. We think he was going to work out somewh...