Patience vs Patients

So many people misuse the words patients and patience. Always using one in place of the other... like desert and dessert. I've been known to mistaken desert for dessert on many occasions. Maybe it's because I'm an idiot... maybe it's because I could care less in knowing the difference when I was growing up.

Patients vs Patiences...

I've become a student once again... having to learn many lessons in the value of patiences with patients. Sound kinda funny, huh? Why is it you have to have patiences with patients, when most patients don't have patiences? This one could almost be a riddle. Now the real question is, how do I learn patience without becoming a mental patient myself?

I tried to teach a private studio a few times now and I have learned that I just don't have the patience. So you can imagine... me trying to juggle a hyper active 22month old baby (there's probably a 9 out of 10 chance that he has ADD) and a overly sensitive, hyper active nursing home patient who is afraid to be alone and wants me at her every beckoning call. I wake up to a hyper kid, use my whole afternoon to visit a bed ridden, hyper active patient and then go home to the hyper kid. I love them both, but I will soon be at my wits end.

Tomorrow cannot come quick enough. I'm taking a day off!!!! Woo hoo! I don't know what I am doing or where i am going, nor have I told anyone... It's going to be my little secret (and of course my Grandmother's, she's been a tremendous help!).