MTTBTF
Many things to be thankful for...Big B's been sick with what I believe was most likely H1N1, and he is now feeling better.Since he's feeling better I was able to sleep in my bed, with him, last night. I'm on Thanksgiving Break, and even though we still have to study it's been nice not to have to get up and go, go, go. Aside from Big B's bout with H1N1 everyone in my family is pretty healthy and

where have all the babies gone???
Two days at the family birthing center and I don't get to see any birthing! harumph! Ok, so there's five of us in my clinical group and since I was the one who admitted to having seen a c-section before the other four were split up and went in on two different c-sections. I went in on an induction. Of course the baby couldn't make an appearance on my time. I did get to hang antibiotics, and

the reason I'm going to end up an AA member by the time my youngest graduates HS
So you understand fully my impending need for AA (I am just kidding about a future need for AA--for the most part). The first paragraph explains a status message post I'd made on Facebook about some things parents should never have to go through. The status message: Things no parent should have to go thru: hearing "I hate you", but a 13 yr old will say it as easily as 7 year old; seeing

wham bam thank ya ma'am!
I have some great news concerning my nursing program. It appears that our discussion with our instructor paid off and they will be making changes! The changes will be taking place next semester even! They're working it out so that one of the primary RNs on the floor will make the patient assignments, and we'll be given 2 patients. It is gong to be based on readiness, so they're taking that

STBTF
Something to be thankful for...I am extremely grateful that we only have 4 more regular Mondays (which are preceded by a hellish weekend spent studying) until finals week!