Broken Hearts

This has been a very rough year for my nursing class. We lost a very dear instructor about a month ago and she is now enjoying life in heaven. This last week a classmate fell victim to a stroke and has not been doing very well. Watching my classmates deal with so much pain has been almost as hard as dealing with the loss of our instructor and the struggle of a dear friend.

This classmate is a wonderful person.  Always willing to help anyone and everyone. One lady even said that he helped her to look for an earing in the parking lot. His illustrations are of a quality that you would expect to see in a text book, and he does them for everything we were doing in class. One young lady said that they were studying together and he got up and started drawing pictures on the white board to help her understand better.  He is such a great man that it really is difficult to know that he is going through such a personal struggle.

As for the rest of my classmates, I have been very pleased at the level of caring for him and his family has reached.  I was blessed to attend a prayer vigil for him. One classmate stood up and said out loud what others were thinking and everyone came together to comfort each other and the family.  I have become very attached to most of my classmates and the prayer vigil was a visual experience that reinforced why these young men and women are in the right career field.

I know that I will never forget my senior year of college. Not only for the struggles that we have gone through, but for the fact that I have been able to grow closer to some of the best young students that I will ever meet in my life.

Prayers for our class, our instructors, our classmate, and his family.

My Teenage Girls

While I was driving to my girls school this morning. Since once again one of them left something at home that they could not live without. I was thinking about my girls and all their problems.  I came to the conclusion, I really do 
have good girls. Yes they do cause me stress when I really don't have time for it, and like most teenagers they don't help around the house very much. However when it comes to causing trouble, they don't do that.  I can honestly say that for all the years they have been in school I have not been called to the school for a discipline problem.  We have had a few meetings with the principle, and most of those have been at my request to defend my girls from others.

Both of my girls have very giving hearts and have learned that other peoples feeling are just as important as their own. Both of my girls are great at trying to solve problems between friends and others. As far as 'drama queens' they seem to save that just for me. I guess if you kids are going to show their backsides, I would rather it be in private inside my house so that others do not have to see the ugly side of them.

My girls make me proud in several ways. They are both really good at keeping their grades up and me not having to remind them of homework. They are skilled at whatever sports they attempt to play. They are growing into their adult bodies very gracefully. 

I am a very blessed mother of two girls that really are great to be around.