It has been a long 7 days!!!!! Finally finished my my 7 day stretch of night shifts... till the next one lol. I am absolutely loving the night shift; although, I’m steadily realizing I am way to nosey to be working at a trauma hospital lol. I have no regrets of jumping right in and giving this shift a shot. The hard part is missing my babies while I’m at work. So yesterday I decided to forfeit some of my sleep and wake up early enough to pick them both up and bring them somewhere fun before I went in at 5:00 PM. The were so excited as we headed to get ice cream and cookies, but couldn’t agree on what flavor they both were going to get! Once we got there we picked our booth and started enjoying some time together. Jean Paul wanted to show me all the sea animal figurines he had smuggled out of the car without me noticing and Leighton proudly began showing me everything in her book sack that she had done at school. Once Maw Maw got there they chose their ice cream and then both barely said a word while they inhaled the treat lol. By the time they were done they both had marching blue smiles and my heart was so full. I actually told myself in my head “Good job Mommy!” But what happened next completely crushed me. As I buckled them into Maw Maw’s van Leighton began sobbing. And I mean sobbing huge crocodile tears. She was crying so hard she could not even open her eyes. Fighting back my own tears I kept telling her just one more night peanut, just one more night then I’ll be home for 7 whole days. She kept crying harder and harder. As my Mom told me to get in my car before she would see my cry I kissed her big and squeezed her tight. As I got in my car I felt like I had been punched in the stomach, because my heart hurt so bad. I told myself “Just one more night Mommy!”
And yes I cried the whole way to work!
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