Buck up baby!

You know when we get tired... we tend to get kind of whiny... thus begins a downward spiral of feeling sorry for ourselves, which leads to more whiny, which leads.... well.. you get the picture... I generally tend to be the type of person who says to just "buck up"... you know... get over it?! And I even tend to tell myself that... and it usually works! But today no amount of 'bucking up' seemed to want to get me through my day... I was TIRED... I don't know how many prenatals we did this morning for initials... but the line NEVER seemed to end!!! It's always interesting to do intake prenatals... we found 2 sets of twins today!... but also exhausting to make sure each woman has the necessary tests and shots and her fundus matches her due date... lectures on eating right, drinking MORE WATER...etc... by the end of the line you can hardly remember if you'e injected this one?... told this one to drink water, go to the dr...etc ..... We finally ended at 2 pm... (from 7:45 start time)... then had class at 2:30... then I had my lady from yesterday come back for a baby check up and newborn screen check.... On my way home I was almost crying to God that he needed to give me stregnth cause I didn't want to come home like a rag muffin and ignore the kiddos I hadn't seen all day... So... like I said.. no amount of kicking myself to get over it was working today... instead I finally chose to focus on how blessed I am... how amazing God is... and you know what.. HE IS!!! and I AM!!! I'm excited to come home to my kids running up and saying "Mommy's home!"... and asking if I had baby's today!... It's not like I'm not still tired... I AM!... but God changed my attitude... and that makes ALL the difference in the world! I felt doubly blessed when a fellow midwife was saying she'd only caught one baby this month and was feeling like it's cause she works all swing shifts this month... I gladly offered her my night shift tonight in exchange for her swing tomorow! She was excited and hopefully she catches a baby and I get her dead shifts!! LOL... funny what we wish for eh!
On a seperate side note... totally bummed.... yesterday I had a continuity delivered... nice, quick birth (10 minutes after she walked in the door... can hardly get much quicker!) And since there wasn't much going on at the clinic and Tonia was with me... we headed home... 10 minutes after I went home a gal came in that was supposed to be transported to the hospital... but her babies were coming too fast,..... YEP... twins... And I missed it... Sayong! But alas... another day na lang... Be Blessed be blessed... BE BLESSED! (I am!) :) :P