Time is flying... i need to be better at writing!

I am entering my fifth week of nursing school. It has been crazy, but been enjoying it very much. Still missing my family, and the dorm life is much different than the first time around.

I just finished my midterms, and next week is finals for the first two classes.
Started in the nursing home helping people last week and this week I get to do a lot more. We start tomorrow at 6am! early early morning! Then tomorrow afternoon we have our injection skills check-off. Yes, I get to give one of my classmates an intromucular and subcutaneous shots. Funny story... we learned about medicine administration and injections 2 weeks ago. I give Papa his b-12 Intromucular shots if i am home on the 1st and 15th, so i am not nervous giving those, however... never given an "insulin" or TB shot. So i decide to try them on myself! I tried the TB on the arm, but could not get my skin taught enough with the surringe in my other hand. So, i did it on my thigh... i did it well and with no trouble. Then i tried the insulin shot. i was nervous!!! kept psyching myself out. finally did it (yes all my needles were sterile and used a very small amount of sterile saline). I DIDN'T FEEL IT GO IN! as i looked down i moved the needle... go figure. Had a bruise for 10 days... my class mates think i am crazy lol... in a good way.

Toby this past week started a fire in the microwave... hehe. Guess we will be getting a new one soon! Love him very much and think his trials as a single parent are wonderfully grounding. We have all had these mistakes... i remember when i was heating on very low, a pot of bleach water to make it react better with the stain in my white shirt... well ... new mommy brain, forgot that it was on and burned my shirt! that shirt went in the trash HAHA.

Laci is enjoying being a "nurse like mommy". and she is excited to go to school because i tell her mommy goes to school and works hard to be a nurse, and then laci says i work hard too mommy! so cute.