This afternoon I'll be busy packing for my trip up to Kansas City. I will be spending two weeks up there doing crash clinicals. I will be home for the weekend and I am very happy about that! The first week (this week) I'll be at Childrens' Mercy and the second week I'll be at Truman. I think I'll learn a lot in the big hospitals, but I am ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas! Ah... it's so good to be on Christmas break! :-) I can bake and cook and spend time with my dear family again!  I praise the Lord for getting me through another stressful semester. Each one seems 10 million times harder than the last one. I can't believe next semester will be my last. Yikes! I don't feel ready to be a nurse yet!

Dad ( Read more... )

From the Hillbilly Housewife Newsletter:

THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

Author Unknown

A weary mother returned from the store,
Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.
Awaiting her arrival was her 8 year old son,
Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.

“While I was out playing and Dad was on a call,
T.J. took his crayons and wrote on ( Read more... )

     I have decided that nursing school has a way of consuming one's life - especially the third semester! We are being hit hard and fast with exams of every kind week after week after week. Sometimes I wish I could "run away" and never come back. But God is good. If He brought me this far, He'll bring me through safely to the end. :-)

I had a ( Read more... )

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of
anxiety or the handle of faith."

He gives power to those who are tired and worn out;
he offers strength to the weak.
Isaiah 40:29

Guess what...today was my first day back in nursing school. I don't like first days. So much material is thrown at you all at once and it takes awhile to get in the swing of things. On top of all that stress, I haven't been feeling well the last week; I ( Read more... )

 Well, my carefree summer is over! My first class (I'm taking another A&P class to get more credit hours.)  is a night class this evening. My REAL classes (nursing classes) don't begin until tomorrow morning.

For some odd reason I am really, really dreading these final two semesters, and I don't really know why. Yesterday afternoon I was all teary ( Read more... )

I took my brother Luke to the Kansas City airport this morning; he's flying out to the Grand Canyon to get a job. His plane was scheduled to leave at 8:12 and since we needed to get him there at least an hour before that and it takes over 2 hours to get to KCI, we had to leave around 4:45. I got up at 3:30 to get ready to go!.That's about as early ( Read more... )

     We've been fighting achy, queasy tummies for about 2 weeks now. We hardly ever get the stomach flu, so we're speculating we got sick from the raw milk we were buying. We have drunk raw milk for years without any problems, but we either had our own cow(s), or bought from a farmer friend. The farm where we had been getting our milk dried off all ( Read more... )

     Yes, you read that right, and no, don't worry about me. I'm still in my right mind.  But I still wish I had a gun before the sun sets below the horizon. I would hide out in the barn with a trusty rifle and wait for the intruder because he's bound to be back tonight. One quick, clean shot would ensure an end to his stealthy, deadly night-time ( Read more... )