Six Months Later
I sighed as I take off my scrubs and shoes for the last time for a good minute. Today was the last day of my summer clinical and it's bittersweet. On one hand I loved it because for the past three months I have been working in the Labor & Delivery unit, which is exactly where I want to work when I graduate. On the other hand, ya girl is tired as fuck. My clinical was every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7pm-7am. I also had class everyday from 1:30pm-4:00pm. I have literally been living off of caramel macchiato's from Starbucks for the past three months.
With me being so busy it was hard to balance school and basically being a mother to Aimee and Halle. To help me out Mama Gloria came and stayed with me for the past few months. That woman is truly an angel sent from God himself. I really don't know how I would have got through these months without her help. She would help get the kids ready for bed and everything at night while I was in the hospital. By the time I got off in the morning she would have breakfast ready for all of us, and I would drop the girls off at school before coming back home to nap before class. And either her or Shawn would pick them up in the afternoon once they got out of school.
My relationship with my mom has gotten tremendously better. I have visited her about four times, and we talk on the phone everyday. I'm so proud of the growth she has made and will continue to make. Halle has also gotten better too. She ended up getting the part of Ariel in her school play and absolutely killed it. She has also improved a lot mentally, she now only sees her therapist once a month. Halle's relationship with my mother has improved as well. She still has not went to see her yet, but they do talk on the phone a lot. We recently celebrated her birthday in May, my little sister is now 11 years old. And Aimee is turning 2 in about two weeks.
Two months after me and Shawn took our "break" or whatever you want to call it, he got a full time offer as a sports analyst at his job, making a multiple six figure income. Him being a typical nigga he immediately went out and got a brand new car. A Lamborghini truck, that I would personally like as well with pink interior for my birthday but hey. On top of that he also got a 4 bedroom condo.
I was beyond proud of him when he told me the news. I decided to celebrate with all our friends so we went out to eat and to the club that night. Me and Shawn ended up getting a little too tipsy and broke our "no sex while on break" rule but it was well worth it. With Shawn getting a new promotion he was just as busy as I was the past few months.
This led to us spending very little time together. We probably only saw each other on the weekend when he would come pick up/drop off Aimee and Halle. We talked on the phone as much as we could. But I'm just a little frustrated because Shawn went on this whole tirade about us taking this break so when can take our relationship slow, but I personally feel we haven't really made any progress.
I know we both have been busy but I just felt we could have tried to make more time for each other more during this time. Hopefully with me being done with my classes & Shawn finally being settled into his new position we can finally make something shake.
"Hello" I answered Michelle's FaceTime call.
"Hey, we're downstairs. Are you ready?" She asked.
"Yeah I'm putting my shoes on right now, and then I'm coming down." I told her before ending the call.
I made sure I had all of my belongings before heading downstairs to the car. My friends decided to treat me to dinner tonight, just as a congratulations for all the hard work I have put in within the last few months.
