Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A Crazy Day for Home Visitation

Get up this morning thinking today is going to be a Terrific Tuesday.  Was I mistaken!  Here is how my day went (I will be leaving out personal info)!

For those of you that have seen Marley and Me. This is written like John Grogan's blogs. lol

Struggled to get Lillian out of bed. Washed a peanut butter mixture out of her hair(she had gum in it).
Drove Lillian to school. Drove myself to work and arrived late.
Got paperwork ready for first home visit. Got called into bosses office to find out we will be going to a conference in Oct. and chit chatted for awhile.
Left for first home visit. Arrived after a 25 minute drive ON TIME!! Yay.
Got told I did not know how to do math. Realized I was not getting anywhere with MOB(mother of baby), so decided to cut our visit short. Tried scheduling new home visit for next week and realized that I would be in Nashville for a training all week. Got told that I needed that training(referring to lack of math skills-apparently 12+5=18.5). Left home visit.
Arrived at office and ate lunch, then decided I wanted a milk shake.
Did not realize that a trip to chick filet for milkshakes would take 1.5 hours.
Messaged MOB that I would be late to second home visit. Called MOB for third home visit to tell her I may need to reschedule, phone has been disconnected. Called office to verify number. Called MOB again, still disconnected.
Arrived 30 minutes late to second HV. She was cool, thank goodness. Child gave me a high five :-) (he hates strangers). Spent 45 minutes with prenatal mother showing her how do prenatal exercises. Fun Stuff.
Drove to third HV, MOB thought I was not coming. Verified her number. I had a dyslexic moment and converted a 6 to a 9.  Found out that their is a new visitors policy for her apartment complex. All visitors must park in the visitors lot and have a visitors tag in the window. Any vehicle not registered  and without a visitors tag will receive a wheel boot.
Rescheduled official home visit for next day. Walk downstairs to service men standing at my car about to attach a freaking boot to my wheel. Explained the short visit and just finding out about the new policy and they referred me to the front office. With another home visit scheduled shortly, I drove passed the office and got phone number to call.
Driving to my last home visit of day, I get stuck in horrible traffic. Trying hard to bypass traffic, I decide to turn down a side street hoping to come out where I needed to be. Not so much. Ended up having to back my car down the road to the nearest safe area to do a two point turn. Got back on main road. Decide to turn down another side street. Again, bad idea. Get back on main road.
Decide to sit in horrible traffic only to realize they have the whole intersection and the road I need to turn on blocked off, because of a crazy wreck.  Finally am able to make it through the intersection and cut through a parking lot to get on the road I am supposed to be on. Get a glare from the cop sitting in the lot. Whatever!
Arrive at MOB's house. Her father is startled to see me so late in the day and welcomes me in.
Drive to get Lillian. Drive to Wal-Mart for shirt for field trip. Drive home. Then realized I forgot my purse at office. BLAH.

2 comments:

  1. Oh boy. My heart ached for you reading about this day of yours. Sounds like you need a good dose of a good, uneventful day tomorrow. I'll be praying the rest of your week goes much smoother! Love you, girl.

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  2. Oh Mari, I kept telling myself I needed all of my visits crammed into two days, so I could have 3 full days to do just to paperwork. Not a good idea. My case load is growing, so I may need to stretch them out over mornings.

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