17 days of Thankful

For the next 17 days, the days Until Thanksgiving I will be posting about something everyday that I am thankful for. In this economic climate it is easy to forget how grateful we are for the people and things that surround us. I encourage anyone who wants to join to link back to me or leave me a message!

Day 17- Today when I slow down and think what I am thankful for the first thing that comes to mind is my Father. I credit him for helping to become the woman I am today. He spent much of my childhood raising me as a single parent because my mother was chronically ill. Without his influence I dont know who I would be.

He has been my strength through so many challenging events in my life, helping to push me that little extra bit when I didnt think it was possible to go on any further.

He has been my cheerleader when I did succeed, and he has helped me up when Ive fallen, wiped my tears away and told me in with the most confidence in his voice “You will do better next time”.

Saying that my Father is my hero is a little cliche, but its true. He makes me crazy because he knows me better than any human being in this universe. He is my friend, he is my confidant, he is my hero.

Today on Day 17, I am most thankful for you Dad. I love you.

Fall Holiday festival

We spent today enjoying the local holiday festival! What fun!! There were a ton of vendors selling everything from jewelry and quilts to every type of food you can imagine!

Bavarian Bratwurst!

Caramel rocky road apple supreme!

We had a wonderful time supporting local merchants and then stopped at the whole foods market on the way home to get some organic produce. It was the perfect fall day!

And how did I manage to screw it up? Well, you know those stark white scrubs we have to wear for clinicals? Yeah those horrible marshmellow suit looking uniform…well, I washed mine with a pen in the pocket and ruined an entire set. I dont know where my brain was. So now I am attempting to do some damage control and wipe away my tears.

So to try and make it better the Hubby and I opened a bottle of wine and are snuggling down to watch a movie on our super HD TV!! I love Blue Ray!!

Everyone loves their dobermans!!

Anyone who knows me, knows how very much I adore my dogs. Actually I love almost all dogs, German Shepherds are the exception. So it really makes me melt when I see something like this in the window of someones house or business. It is well know that my Dogs are smarter than your honor student!

What is your favorite breed of dog?

International jew?

Does anyone else shop at the International Jew?

“you did this”

That line had me crying because I was laughing so hard!!

Picture a 3 year old with a broken arm in a cast from rough housing with dad.

Kiddo: “candy please”
Dad: “its too early”
Kiddo: (get a frown) “you did this” and points to the cast.

Both Mom and I were laughing! Too cute!

Kids really do say the cutest things. Sometimes I try to picture what my kids will say and I wind up cracking myself up. The Hubby and I are both really quick witted so I can only imagine that our kids will say some funny things!

What are some funny kid phraises youve heard?

Nursing school and peds clinicals

Lets start at the top shall we?! Nursing school, my favorite and least favorite topic in the world. Its going well. Busy. Scary, stressful and totally worth it. I was blessed to have the most amazing clinical advisor for my OB clinical. She was probably the smartest woman that I have met. The interesting thing is that she is a FNP that works in OB. Does anyone know how that works? I never got a chance to ask her.

Personally I have my moments where I think being a FNP would be better for me than being a Midwife. I think it would allow me some added diversity.

Clinicals for this half are in Peds. Im really looking forward to working with some kiddos! Also next week I get to spend an entire day with baby E and my friend J!! So exciting!

Im really enjoying peds lecture. I feel like I get alot out of it! I also love that there is a schedule that is followed! It makes life so much easier when you know what is coming!

This class has been taylored to be an online hybrid class, so all our exams are on the computer and we can even turn in our homework via the internet! So cool!!

As for the question subitted about me writing a book, I have thought about it! However there just arent enough hours in the day! Maybe once I pick a specialty!

Any other questions for me?

Wordless Wednesday

Prayer request.

My uncle is dying. He has throat cancer and has been turned over to hospice care. He has weeks to a couple months left to live.

Please pray for my Aunt and cousin, and for my mother who is going to be losing another sibling.

And please please pray for my Uncle. He needs peace and pain relief.

Crying from onions

And bread in the mouth doesnt help!

I’m famous

Weirdest experience…. Sitting next to this lady on the plane home last night and she says “hey, I know you!”

Im like, uh ok.

She says “youre StudentRNTiffany, I read your blog!”

No kidding!! Holy crap! She is a Hopeful soon to be Nursing Student pursuing her ADN. And she recognized me, and reads religiously!

Amazing!

Did I mention Happy Halloween?

The cutest costume ever!

November 1

Do you ever have one of those mornings where you just cant get your butt outta bed?

Where the mere thought of getting up from your snuggly warm soft sleepiness feel tragic?

I ha one of those days today. I could have stayed in bed all day out of sheer exhaustion from spending all night last night playing at Universal Studios Halloween Horror nights.

Heavenly cupcakes

Picture time again

Seaworld adventure part 1

Fun in Old Towne

Rockin’ the finals

Tuesday was my finals day. I am officially finished with my OB final. I am sad to have to leave the clinicals because I really enjoyed myself, but I am also relieved because the paperwork for OB was monstrous!

Quarterly my nursing program requires you to take a dosage calculatuons test to prove your proficiency. Tuesday was also the day for that exam.

Now I personally feel like I am quite comfortable with dosage, and yet every quarter I get this panic and waves of nausea at the thought of this exam. I have never done poorly on these exams, quite the contrary I usually excell under that kind of pressure but it always freaks me out.

The grades have not been pisted officially yet, but I can say with confidence that I am proceeding to the next module of school.

I was so freaked out that one of my amazing professors actually took the time to grade my dosage exam first and called me last night so that I could rest easier! I passed with flying colors!!

Because it was finals and I have my mid quarter clinical break week, my Hubby and I are gonna be spending the week exploring San Diego and maybe even going somewhere fun for Halloween!

What are your Halloween plans?

Dear annoying old hag,

Dear annoying old hag sitting behind me,

Yes that was my hair that you pulled each time you stood up. And yes you probably need some sort of bladder control medication as it is not normal to need to the lavatory every 10minutes.

Yes, it was gross that you chose to apply your bengay cream during the flight and left the plane smelling like a long term care facility.

Yes, it was incredibly rude that you called the flight attendant “young lady” when lecturing her about the length of her skirt.

And finally yes, it did show your ignorance when you told the flight attendant that you could not sit next to the “negro”.

You are a sad old evil hag who likely lives a sad sad life. And thank you for your horrid ignorance, the man you chose not to sit next to was funny and smelled like Givenchy’s Be Delicious.

Sincerley,
The now partially bald blonde sitting in front of you next to the “negro”.

Wordless Wednesday

What the hell?!

So it turns out that all the posts Ive done on my phone for the last few days have failed to publish! I dont know if it was operator error or some machine glitch but hopefully it is fixed now!

Im walking in to take my dosage test in just a few minutes and then I have my OB final this afternoon.

Yesterday in Peds we talked about respiratory illnesses in children. When we started the portion of the lectire on CF it made me think of Tricia and baby Gwenyth over at CF Husband after following their journey for the last year and a half I felt compelled to tell the class about them. If you havent had a chance to meet this amazing family head over there!!

I am so looking forward to this clinical session!! Peds here I come! (that is after my final!)

Kids are cute!

After spending way too much of the weekend fooling around it is finally time to head back to school.

Today is the start of my peds lecture and then orientation to my peds clinical!

Tomorrow is my Midterms, I have a huge dosage test and then my OB final. Holy crap it is going way too fast now! In a matter of just a few months Nursing School will be over!!

Wow!!

Baptist church and all you can eat shrimp!

Last night we went to church with L and her Hubby. They attend a Contemporary Baptist church and we were excited to attend. Neither the hubby or I have stepped foot in a church for a couple years!!

The church setting was very nice and the Hubs and I both really enjoyed the singing! We had a hard time with the message that was presented, but all in all it was a fullfilling experience!

After church we all headed out for a nice dinner double date! What fun!

After a lot of laughs and being a little too loud, we headed home!

Now back to the books!

The Crab Pot

Had a wonderful date with my Hubby and friends at the crab pot. It was good and the atmosphere was wonderful!

In comparison to Joe’s crab shack, I would give it 2 stars outta five. Joe’s had more flavor, and stayed hot longer because of the staem bowl.

Even with the low score, we had a blast! We need to do it again guys!!

Midterm switch week

My OB clinical experience is over, all I have left is to take the OB exam and the dosage test and then I can proceed to Peds. Im actually looking forward to my Peds rotation. Kids say the funniest thing!

Overheard yesterday at the post office:

“Mama, who is Attle?”-Little boy asks

“Who?!”-Mom in tight red pants

“Attle! Every one says that they are gonna SEE ATTLE, can we go see him?”

I was laughing so hard. Kids say the cutest things!

Shes a talking hoochie

Or at least she is gonna play one in our group presentation on STDs.

One of our extremely talented team members made this costume from scratch!!

Whats the weirdest thing youve done for a group project?