New Do

Not sure if I like it. My husband has admitted that he, in fact, does not care for it! Luckily my hair grows fast... but while I wait, I will enjoy how easy it is to style and how much cooler I am during these hot Florida days!

Tornados in Jacksonville

We had crazy storms yesterday that resulted in 3 tornadoes in our area (one was literally 2 miles from our house), one of which Jimmy saw from the window where he worked. The link below takes you to a video that some guys took of a couple of the tornadoes. (Note: if you read the description of that video it talks about St. Vincent's hospital... that is where I have been for clinical the past 6 weeks!) Crazy!

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=95527044982&h=kMC18&u=4Dego&ref=nf

I'm Back

It's been a very long time since I posted, but I have been extremely busy. I finished Adult Health I in nursing school which was a really difficult course. We had 150 clinical hours to do, plus a million chapters to read and study, 2 projects, 3 exams and 1 final. It was an insane 8 weeks! On top of that, I was nannying for a lady's 4 month old little boy and 4 year old little boy (who had special needs). I nannied 30 hours the last week of school. I finally had some time off this past week and have been nothing but lazy. We don't start our next class until Wednesday. I will be taking Psychiatric/Mental Health nursing and Leadership Nursing for the next 8 weeks. It should be pretty easy, according to those who have taken it before me. Then this fall we start OB and Pediatric nursing, which should be a lot of fun, although I am worried about how I will be able to deal with dying children. It isn't going to be the bald children stricken with cancer that you see on TV smiling and asking for your donations, it's going to be the balled children stricken with cancer, laying in bed, wasting away, unable to open their eyes, waiting to die. So, hopefully God will give me some strength during that time.

Anyway, I ended up with a B+ (1% away from an A) in Adult Health. I could have done better on the final to get an A (I got an 89 on the final) but I was so busy with nannying that I didn't have much time or energy after I got home to study. I am still happy with a B though.

Our friends Sarah and Tommy told us a couple weeks ago that Sarah was pregnant. Jimmy and I started trying end of January and Sarah and Tommy started trying mid-March and they are pregnant already. Kind of amazing. She must be fertile myrtle. She is 8 weeks already. It makes me wonder if something is wrong with us, but deep down I know God is waiting for the perfect moment, which will probably be in a few months so that I don't have the baby until after graduation, which is fine. As stressed as I was these past 8 weeks, I couldn't imagine how much harder it would have been if I had morning sickness. Sarah has been SO sick. We had dinner with them last night and she kept having to leave because of the different smells that were making her sick and then when we got back to our house she fell asleep on the couch. So, I am kind of thankful I'm not pregnant yet, although I can't wait for the day we find out I am!

Not much else is going on. Jimmy and I are about to head to the YMCA to burn some calories and then I am nannying for a few hours this afternoon.

Until next time...