A peek at our week

I'm on spring break right now, and feels awesome to be able to sleep in a little. Last week was my first week at the VA. I learned that they are one of the only employers in Omaha right now hiring new grads. However until they build a new facility in 5 years, I doubt that I would want to go work there. I'm always looking online at the job openings for nurses, and in this economy it's few and far between for new grads! I think I've decided to stay with my current employer for a few months after I'm done with school. That way, I can get my feet wet and get a little experience as an RN, so that I can get a job easier, since I will have had experience and won't be considered a "new grad" when I apply for jobs later. Next week, I will be registering for my final semester for my undergrad! I can't believe graduation is right around the corner. It has been a long road. I know I'm young and its not like graduating at 25 is a ridiculous thought, but it feels like it's taken forever to get here. I do have to keep giving myself credit and acknowledge the fact that I did get my associated degree in the expected 2 years and that it has only taken me another 3 years to get my bachelors degree. If I didn't keep reminding myself of this, I would be too hard on myself. No one knows how hard nursing school is- well, no one except other BSN students that is. I'm hoping graduate school (online) will be cake compared to this degree!

We had parent teacher conferences on Wednesday last week for Cecelia. As we expected, she is doing awesome. Her school only does report cards two times a year for kindergartners, once in the fall with parent teacher conferences and then again at the end of the year. So we didn't get an actual report card to go off of, her teacher has a list of goals that her students need to have mastered by the end of the year and Cecelia is meeting and exceeding all of the goals listed. The only objective that we need to work on more, is breaking the words up into syllables. So, we will be spending more time focusing on that. She is doing awesome in reading. Her teacher doesn't want me to push her to hard though because she said she is right where she needs to be and as long as we just keep practicing the way we are and not introducing too much too fast, like she sees many parents do, she will continue to master reading just fine. I understand that, and I do want reading to be an enjoyable experience and I don't want Cece to get frustrated with it. Cecelia has a few favorite websites that she just loves to get onto and play, like Sesame street, ABCya, PBSkids, and Starfall. She thinks the kindergarten level is too easy on the games, so she likes me to set it on the first grade level for her. She tried to do this really hard game the other day though. It was really a game for parents to set up for their kids. You are supposed to make a word find out of words that your child knows. She asked me for help and when I explained what the game was and that she should play another game, she insisted that she play this one and I told her that I couldn't help her right then. She didn't care and wanted to play it anyways. She got frustrated about 5 minutes later, and slammed down the mouse and broke it. I have never seen her get angry like that before. She got in BIG trouble for that incident. It's one thing to disobey, another to get upset about something silly, but to destroy our property (although not on purpose) is completely unacceptable behavior, and she needs to know that now. If she can destroy something, even on accident, at 5, can you imagine the damage she can do as a teenager if we didn't instill in her now that this behavior is completely unacceptable?

Cecelia started swimming lessons last week. I had to miss her first lesson though because I had to work! Aaron took her by himself. She said she enjoyed it. The lessons are only a 1/2 hour each week but the instructor to student ratio is 1:4, so I think she will get enough individualized attention to gain some skills out of the lessons.

It has been so dreary this last week here. It's like Seattle weather; overcast and wet. The sun is scheduled to come out tomorrow with some temperatures in the 60's. I can't wait. Kiley will be here the week after next for her spring break, we had originally thought that the girls' spring breaks fell one week apart, but since the Papillion-Lavista school district added a few days that they had originally scheduled off, they had to move the kid's spring break back a week. Thus, the girls will now be on their spring breaks at the same time. Aaron took the majority of the week off work. I however, still have school that week:(

We don't have too many big plans this week. I tried to keep it low key for my spring break. I am working a little, catching up on school work, spring cleaning and spending some time relaxing. This weekend will be swimming lessons on Saturday and church on Sunday.