the end of the blue cards

today was my last day of work. the doctor i worked for for the last 7 1/2 years closed his practice. i started work january 2002. that april, i found found out i was pregnant with my son. basically most of my co-worker have seen my kids grow up to this point.

i LOVED working for this particular dr. and with my co-workers. i actually worked for this particular dr. while i was in college. in college i had two jobs. one job was working at night taking care of a handicap person in their home. i worked for minimum wage 40 hours a week at that job, but it wasn't so bad because i got to sleep. i also worked for the dr. part-time filing insurance, same stuff i do now. i stopped working for him when i started my student teaching.

after i had gotten married, i was eating at the olive garden (love their chicken fettuccine) with my sister. i saw one of co-workers there. she called me two day later to see if i wanted a part-time job. i didn't have anything to do. we had paid off the officer's school loan, so i had quit working at night. i decided to work part-time filing insurance for the dr. the job was perfect for me. i liked working one day a week. my schedule was very flexible. if i had sick kids or needed to be off work for some reason, i made up the day when i could. i really enjoyed the filing stuff. i know some people do not like mundane work like filing, but i do. it was something to keep me busy, but i had no stress to bring home with me.

of course, my favorite part of the job were the co-w0rkers. the dr. always tried to keep me busy with his many "blue cards", but i always finished them. he never minded me invading his office to do my work. my - what i call supervisor - mrs. d was the best. she always kept me busy and i tried to keep her from eating "white" chocolate that wasn't white chocolate. she has seen my kids grow up and loves them. i always enjoyed trying to get my work done before she could give me new work. i'm sure she shielded me from a lot of stuff i didn't need to know - office politics and stuff. i love ya mrs. d. and i'm going to miss seeing you every single week! mrs. r, the nurse was great too. she and mrs. d. always took care of me. mrs. r let me borrow land-run costumes for the OK landrun and steer horns for my son's cowboy birthday party. they threw me baby showers for each of my kids. i'm going to miss mrs. r telling us when it was snack & lunch time, and talking the dr. into letting us go home early! :)
we've had a few receptionist while i have been there. some have been down-right crazy, but some have been great. i didn't get a chance to really say good-bye to the one we had now, but i hope she has a good retirement. that's what i heard she was going to do.

we worked in the same office with another dr. too. i didn't know the dr. very well, but the other dr.'s nurse & receptionist were very sweet too. i don't know who i'll get all my bath & body works coupons from now. i'll have to go up there to visit them in their new offices one of these day.

when the dr. told me he was going to close his office, i thought, "okay... this is just God's timing." i am going to start homeschooling my daughter this fall. she will start kindergarten. i think it will be good to have that extra day at home. the officer watched the kids when he was off and when he wasn't the officer's mother would watch them. the officer's mother is going to miss the regular trips to the city to watch them, but i told her i would call on her to watch them. this will give the officer and me a chance to have a date day. so even when things change or a change you are not expecting comes, it's all in God's timing. he has a purpose for everything - even if we cannot see it at the time.

thanks dr. w, mrs. d, mrs. r., and everyone else. i'm going to miss you and working with you every week. i'll send you updates on the kiddos.