The beginning

On June 29th, I will have been employed with Walmart for a year and have been an overnight stocker for about half that time.
As it is to be expected, my sleep schedule is erratic and my mind swings from incredible clarity to hazy recollection.
As I write this, I have only slept about 120 min in the last 24 hrs, such are the results of working a full-time 10pm to 7am shift while being a mother of four children and simultaneously trying to have some sort of home life outside of work.
I feel blessed to have a job and quote to myself how "the Lord is my strength" verses from the Bible to get thru the feeling of tiredness and nerves.
The nerves are my own personal disposition but are alleviated or aggravated by my less than a year old parakeet named "Kiki".