Hallelujah!

My hectic schedule is finally over! I had a crazy, hectic week, with check-offs for injections and all of the injection sites, and tracheostomy care. I had my clinical, a test, a quiz, and today was my final. I scored high enough to make the Dean's List for the quarter, so I was very excited and relieved. Now I'll have a 12 hour clinical day on Tues and class on Wednesday and Thursday. That gives me so much more time to relax and be home and get a lot of things done. It's such a good feeling to have that 5 day schedule over with!

Aiden is now crawling. He crawled to my dad last night, and let me just say that my dad is his most favorite person. He could just sit on my dad's lap all day and be as content as could be. Jeff dropped Aiden off to school to me today b/c I was out early since I only had my final. He had so many women passing him around giving him attention...he was in heaven! He's the friendliest little guy. He's never met a person he didn't like. He'll go to anybody and laugh with them and chat about his day. He's so personable. I love watching his personality come out. I just love being a mommy, period! He is my life long dream come true.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Ready, set, go!

ready for summer with the visor that's all the rage this season!

Is this week over yet?

Here's Aiden crashed out after his day of fun with Landon and Randi.

It's only Tues night and I'm already ready for the weekend. Tomorrow I have to a check-off for a med pass. I have to be able to look at a Dr's order for meds and find mistakes on how they were written out on the medicine administration record (MAR) sheet. Then I have to know the 6 rights and know how to administer all the different meds. It really isn't too hard...just a lot to remember. I have to finish up my care plan for my patient I'll have at my clinical on Thurs. those aren't too hard either, it's just very time consuming.

Have I mentioned that I LOVE my clinical site? I have to drive an hour to get there, but it's the nicest nursing home I've ever seen. It's an extremely small town, and I think that's why it's so nice. Everybody was so friendly and helpful and they were good to the residents. It was such a breath of fresh air b/c a good nursing home staff like that is hard to find. I'm looking foward to being there.

I have a huge praise. I'm off of my blood pressure medicine. I've been trying to hard to do what I know I need to do and be healthy. I also got a student membership to the Y again, so I'll start going with my friend Jen after school. I just pray and ask for strength everyday to keep it up. I need my healthy so I can be around for Aiden and Jeff.

I'm off now, so I can get Aiden ready for bed. Sleep tight.

Ladies and Gentleman, we have a talker!

Yesterday Jeff and I were sitting with Aiden on the loveseat and we were talking to him, and I was kissing his face off just as I do everyday. Jeff told Aiden, "Say mama", and Aiden said as plain as day "dada". It was the sweetest thing in the world. We of course did the typical parent thing and cheered and clapped and I gave him more kisses. He coninued to say it all night long. What a precious boy.

He is also on the move. Gone are the days of rolling. He's not crawling yet, but he's srmy crawling, or he'll stick his butt way up in the air and then push with his toes. I haven't been able to write too much in his book and on his calendar the past 2 months or so, but now this kids is really taking off and starting to do a lot of things all at once. I love watching him grow!

I must say that I love floating holidays. We had one Friday, so that gave me a 3 day weekend, and I've loved every minute of it. I'm caught up on all of my sleep and I feel great.

School has been rough. Last month was Pharmacology, and I honestly have no idea how I passed and didn't have to retake it. It was so hard!! But you know what made it so hard? We were told to focus in on certain things, so we'd study those things and then completely different things would be on the test. I ended up passing with a C+, which really isn't bad. The grading scale it tougher on nursing students, and we have to pass a class with an 80, and I think I ended up with an 84. I was disappointed, but I also knew I needed to be realistic and just be happy I passed the first time around.

This month has been easier as far as tests go, but we're finishing up our sterile procedures, learning how to pass meds and give injections. There are just a lot of steps to rememebr as far as those are concerned. Next month I'll be done with check-offs, where we just do a demo of a procedure on a dummy one on one with the instructor for a grade, and I'm so happy b/c it's so stressful!

In 2 weeks I start the new schedule I'll have until I graduate. I'll be in class 2 days and have one clinical day, so I can't wait. I think I'll also be picking up a job a couple of days a week. I think I'm finally going to go to the assisted living place that's like 2 minutes from my house and apply there. I know girls who work there, and they love it, so I'll give it a shot.

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. Enjoy what's left of it!

And now presenting the boy that everyone's been dying to see....