The Cats Meow

This weekend was crazy fun.  Being a parent is very rewarding.  I love my kids, and I do everything I can for them.  But you know what?  It's so tiring!!!  Oh well, I'm sure when they're older they'll appreciate all the things we (the hubs and I) do for them....right? We picked up and dropped off Cam for her Disneyland trip, thank God it was just to her school and not to Anaheim! then it was Bri's Girlscouts trip, and I had to buy the vest and patches, lest she show up vestless and patchless to her huge Girlscout jamboree, then it was Suckers lil friend wanting spend the night and the both of them being little pig boys....

(that's me on the right)

AND I had school Saturday, I'm currently taking a  hybrid anatomy class with my awesome friend Christina.  We have to meet for 4 labs on campus, and we do the rest online.  This week was a lab week.  Let me tell you that it was tough work.  First we had a lab practical test on the bones of the body, and I did pretty well on it.  Then we had our Student Learning Objective which consisted of dissecting a cat.  Now, let me start off by telling you I have 3 babies and dog, so I have picked up, and wiped off my fair shair of shit, I've been thrown up on and IN, yes IN, (TIP:  don't sleep facing your sick childs face when he/she is ill and just wants mommy to snuggle, I repeat, FACE AWAY FROM THE SICK CHILDS FACE!! unless you want a mouthfull of projectile vomit) Sufficed to say I do not have a weak stomach, but the smell from the old cats sitting in formaldehyde (yes, i said old cats, someone said the date on them was '09, i'm very sure dead cats go bad at some point right?) this smell, it was just God AWFUL! my hair, and clothes and skin were penetrated by said smell, I reeked of dead cat!! The good part, YES, really there's a good part, I can do this shit...I mean, If I can handle this kind of thing, then I can really do the nursing thing.  One of the gals in class is an L.V.N. and she said she could not tolerate the smell wafting through our warm classroom, she said "I can eat a sandwhich while assisiting in a colonoscopy, but I cannot tolerate this smell." Which made me feel soo good because  at one point I thought that I could not deal with all the shit and other body excretions nurses have to deal with, but you know what?  I can totally put up with it.  I handled this task like a champ.  My poor friend loves cats and all creatures and just could not deal with the dissection.  She helped set up and clean up and read us all the instructions.   I think she may have cried, bless her heart.  I jumped in there and helped dissect that cat like nobody's business. 

Patience is a virtue...............................

Patience........I have NONE, NIL, NOT A BIT!!!  I am by far, the most impatient person in all the earth.  It feels that lately, I am being tested.  I am waiting and waiting impatiently for so many things to happen.  I hate that these things are totally beyond my control.  I am waiting impatiently to see if I have been accepted to not one, but TWO nursing programs that I have applied to.  One in my hometown of Visalia and the other is about 30 minutes away in Lemoore.  I hate the fact that I have done all that I can and now my fate lies in the hands of others.  I pray that they have  a heart and let me in.  I need to start my career doing what I love.  I should give thanks because I currently have a job, it pays the bills, but I'm not doing what I love.  I am waiting for something to change with my work life.  It's like it can't always be good all around.  My family life and relationship with the hubs is great, my kids are awesomely spectacular, straight A's loving life, doing all the kid things....bu then I hit a brick wall with my work life.  I don' like this.....something's gotta change.  And I just need to make it happen because I am not waiting anymore. Virtue Shmirtue....whatev......

The little things.

My hubby and I are high school sweethearts.  We have been married for almost 14 years.  But he still surprises me every now and then.  This morning he got up early (same as he does every work day), but today he made me breakfast.  Just because.  I love my guy.  I truly appreciate it because during the work week I never have breakfast, I'm always rushing to get ready, get the kids clothes ironed, making sure they brushed their teeth, washed their lil faces, had some cereal or waffles or something, etc., etc.....

Love you baby.

School!

School starts this week! Yay! NOT!  I have this love/hate relationship with school. That is, I love to hate school.  My goal is to get into the Registered Nursing program here at the community college.  I have taken all the pre req. classes.  However, my G.P.A. could use some help.  Hence the re-taking of Anatomy.  Amidst all of this agony is one good thing, I get to take this class with my dear friend Christina.  My hubby is taking a class too, so this means we will be very busy in the coming months.  I am really going to try to make the extra time to do the little things I love to do for my family, like make homecooked meals, and all the mommy things.  It's so easy to let the little things get away from you. 

New Years Resolution

Let me start by saying that I have never set a goal for my New Years resolution.  But this year, since I'm a grown up, I figured I could easily follow through with such a feat.  My resolution this year is to spend more time with my family and those I care about. Sometimes I worry too much about what unimportant people think of me or the decisions and choices I make.  My wonderful friend Christina helped me set this blog up.  My hopes are to connect with positive people.