for my kids, 8:30 –
2:30pm. When I finished here I would go over to Milton Public, pick
them up, and take them to whatever activities they had that afternoon.
Now, now they’re all grown up. My daughter, she’s a freshman in college
down in Rhode Island while my son, who is twenty years old, is off
traveling with two friends in India. I want him to go to school, but I
also realize that what he is doing is a wonderful opportunity, it’s
exciting. I do indeed worry about him though for he’s a diabetic - I
don’t know if there are all the adequate health care facilities or
supplies - but what can you do? Before I met my husband I had been a supervisor in the admitting office at the New England Baptist Hospital for ten years. I left when I had my first child. I don’t miss it, there were a lot of complaints. If you put the patient in the wrong room, there would be complaints. The job and the people were wonderful; it was just the complaints that got me.
The first thing I do when I come in in the morning is make the community service lunches. Then I check the function board, see what functions I have to prepare for and get everything packed, all the condiments and dry cleaning. Depending on the day, it could be an easy or busy day - Graduates Weekend, for example, is crazy. And we don’t have enough stuff to supply all functions easily, we got to hurry back here, wash and dry everything and ship it off to another function. After that, I come back here, serve lunch, finish up, and see if there’s any other functions left to do. If not there aren’t, I go home.
My favorite quote is “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” I love that. That’s my philosophy. It’s from Dr. Wayne Dyer, he’s a motivational speaker. And it’s perfect! I mean like, you going off to college or starting a job, your situation and your enjoyment there completely depends on how you look at it.
