Beautiful Calgary!

I am looking outside the window right now from my room on the 4th floor of the Foothills hospital. I get the bed by the window - lucky me. It is a beautiful Fall day and the Fall is my favourite time of the year (right now in my life that is). Alot of the trees still have orange, red, yellow leaves on them. Yesterday they were all covered in frost and that was beautiful in its own way. I believe a chinook has hit because the snow looks like it is starting to melt. The fog that has been hanging over the city for several days now has finally lifted and I can see downtown Calgary very well. It looks like a calm and peaceful Saturday for Calgary. I am proud to call Calgary my home!

There are so many different kinds of people who live here in Calgary. I even get a glimpse of that being a patient in the hospital. I have had many different types of roomates. A teenager -  soon to be mom -  to a mom from Quebec to a 41 year old lawyer mom soon to have twins (she kept me entertained). A Latin American mom, a Asian mom, and a Phillipino mom. Stay at home moms, unmarried moms with boyfriends, married working moms. All different kinds! I have enjoyed getting to know my roomates. That is one thing I like about nursing too. You get to know and learn from alot of different types of people and that is a good thing! We can all learn from each other.

I love to hear Caeleb on the phone. Chris and Caeleb are a little sick today (the stomach flu seems to be going around) so they can not come and visit. But I heard Caeleb's little voice on the phone this morning and that cheered me up. "Mommy, I got cheeros (cheerios)" he said in his little toddler voice and those toddler voices can sure melt anyone's heart. He doesn't say I love you yet but I asked him for a kiss and he gave me a big wet one that I could hear loud and clear over the phone. And if I can measure his love for me by how loud his phone kisses are, than he does love me! That is reassuring because I feel sorry for the little guy as he is probably thinking I have abandoned him. That is the hardest thing about being here. But he has a wonderful Daddy and Uncle Nathan to take care of him and play with him this weekend (even if Chris is sick), so he will be just fine. I don't worry about him but I miss him. I miss my 3 boys (Chris, Caeleb and Nathan).