3's

Before I became a nurse, I never really considered myself to be a superstitious person. That's all changed now. Now I know that: 1) working when there's a full moon means you're in for a CRAZY night, 2) saying it's a "slow" or "quiet" shift jinxes you and you need to be prepared for an onslaught of patients and 3)bad things come in threes. It's all true.

Within the past week we have had our run of threes in bad luck. Last Friday, our washer broke with a full load of whites during the rinse cycle. Off to Home Depot we went! Also last Friday, I found out that my FMLA from work was approved (which I already knew) but that my job was only "protected" for the first four weeks (stupid broken arm last year). Long story short, I am probably going to have to go back to work after eight weeks of maternity leave instead of the 12 weeks I was planning on. BIG bummer! Really big.

And for our third luck-buster, I took Carter to the ER at Children's on Sunday for a "raging" ear infection, according to the pediatrician. He had been running a fever for three days and was clearly in a lot of pain. I am happy to say that after several days of amoxicillin and TLC, he is feeling MUCH better! Poor boy!

So, the Beilman family is closed to bad luck business. We have reached our quota!