A Blessed Mess Blog

Can you believe it's New Year's Eve 2012?  I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that 2013 is just hours away!  It would be an understatement to say 2012 was a great year because it has been so wonderful.  We've seen our ups and downs like any other family, but it has been an overwhelmingly great year.  The most recent event, of course, would be my job change.  It's been a little under 2 weeks since I said farewell to my job as a medical transcriptionist, a career that spanned nearly 17 years of my life, two weeks shy of 13 years with the same company.  Since my departure I've been an emotional rollercoaster, but the past few days I've been at peace with my decision and am really excited about starting my first of two new jobs this coming Friday at Valley Baptist's MDO program.  A HUGE change it will be, but one I'm excited about and looking forward to.  Next Tuesday, January 8, 2013, I will work my first day at the First Baptist MDO program....

Ever wonder why some days you just feel incredible, happy, and like things are just wonderful and then some days you just want to cry and for what seems like no reason whatsoever?  Well, I'm having one of the latter days today.  My day, Monday, started at 4:00 am today with work so typically Mondays and Tuesday (which start at 4 am) have a slow start and really never seem to speed up, but as most of you know this is my last week doing medical transcription and hopefully my last week to ever HAVE to get up at 4 am to work.  Sophie has been sick this weekend and she had to miss the church kids Christmas musical which she had practiced diligently for these past months.  I went to check on her and assess whether she'd be going to school today and couldn't get much from her except that her throat still hurts.  All of her tests were negative and her antibiotic isn't working, so I'm at this point thinking she's fighting something viral and will basically have to j...