Sunday, March 30, 2008



Tonight we went out to eat for my Grandma's 84th Birthday. She was born on April 1st 1924. I just have to write a quick little snippet about her. She was a very important person in my life. She was the one who always made sure that I went to church. She was always the one that I remember watching me when I was young. I also remember living with her when ever we were building new houses. She is the mother of two obviously my dad and my uncle Ray and a grandmother of four: me, my sister Kristi, my cousin Scott, and my cousin Troy. She is also a Great Grandmother of two, Brooke and Ethan.

Another thing that I am very proud of my grandma and those in the nursing field would I think agree. She fell and broke her hip about three years ago. she is still living on her own and she does not walk with a walker or even a cane and I have to say that I am very impressed.

I just hope that she has many more years to come and that each one is better than the next.

Love Ya Grandma!!

Praise God

So back in July of 2007 I got so called laid off due to lack of work. Well at that time it was really hard for me to just accept that. I was really upset because it was not done (letting me go) very well by my employer. Over the course of time from then until now I was on unemployment and going back to school while I was still looking for a job. I sent out about 300 or so resumes and had only heard back from a few, and all of those were the "Thanks for your application but we regret to inform you that your skills were not what we were looking for blah blah blah...." So I had this brilliant idea that I was going to go and get my certified nursed aid licence ( That is a whole other blog ), well I did and I sent out two application and the very next day I had an interview for the following Wednesday. Then a few days later I got a call from my other application and had a interview set up for the Thursday after my first interview.
So on Wed. I went to my interview at Shorehaven and that went well but they said that I would not here from them in about two weeks. Well Thur. I went to my other interview at Hackley Hospital and walked out with a job.
Just to show you how God is awesome. I lost a job but in its place I went back to school to continue my education towards my nursing degree. Had I not done that I would be further behind this fall when I am actually able to start my nursing program. If I had gotten another job out of the numbers of applications I sent out I would not have gone and gotten my CNA nor would I have this job in a hospital. With all things working towards helping me out in my goal to become an RN.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Ethan is Binky-less

That's right. Ethan is finally free from the comforts and confines of a binky. What's that? You don't know what a binky is? Well...neither do I really, but it's what we call his pacifier.

In any case, now, at 22 months old, Ethan no longer needs one to get to sleep. We wanted to wean him off of it before he was two. When have you weaned or do you plan to wean your kids off of a pacifier?

Sunday, March 23, 2008

I need to do this more offten

Yeah, Well it has been a while and I thought that I should update this blog for a change. It seems like when ever I want to sit down and update it something else always comes up. Well for the last two weeks I was sitting in a CNA training class and let me tell you that was fun ( Heavy on the sarcasm ). Praise the Lord though, because when I was laid off in July of 2007 I had sent out like 300 resumes and did not hear back on but maybe a few that were all thanks for applying but blah blah blah... The very first resume I send out after this training was to Shore Haven in Grand Haven ( ha ha Shore Haven, Grand Haven.. Haven Haven :-) no well any way) That was on Monday this week and the DON (Director Of Nursing) called me on Tuesday and wanted to set up an interview. How Cool was that. Oh and the icing on the cake on my first week of this training was my spring break from college and I got my acceptance letter from MCC that I am going to start the Nursing Program in the Fall. ( Finally ) So I was talking to Matt about all of this and I said that I is apparent that God wanted me to go through this door. Nothing Like a swift kick in the pants that this is the way that he wants me to go. I mean 300 resumes to 1 that is ONE!! Thanks for making is obvious.