Faithful Friday!

Yay! So excited to do Faithful Friday! Today was an AMAZING day because clinical got cancelled! YESSSSSSS! Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE nursing... but it's every nursing kid's dream to have some sort of class cancelled just so they can finally get to sleep for once. My clinical instructor for OB (Labor and Delivery) is a Midwife. So today she was in the middle of a delivery and couldn't make it in time to the hospital. I got the text at 5:15 that clinical was cancelled from a classmate, hopped on the computer, read through every e-mail I could find, got confirmation from the other 10 students, then went back to bed. I slept until about 11:30 and it felt like absolute magic. I can't remember a time where sleeping ever felt so amazing. So I am absolutely so incredibly thankful for that! In nursing it is a bit of a double-edged sword because we have to make up the clinical hours. This means that we will probably have a day in the skills lab tacked on somewhere along the line on a day where I probably want to/should be studying instead... but for now, I am one happy cookie.

Other lovely things about the day: I was able to talk on the phone to my best friend in the entire world for AN HOUR AND A HALF. Magical stuff like this just doesn't get to happen to nursing students. It was AMAZING. She also gave me the e-mail to someone that I might be able to contact to ask more about ER jobs in SB! YES!!!! AMAZING! So excited for that! So blessed for Cori too. She's just so amazing!

A third lovely thing about the day: I was able to Skype my other friend for a long time. It was just the day of catching up! I just feel so happy and so re-energized! Not being able to have any breaks pretty much wears on you in this program, so being able to get the entire day off today really was amazing. Being able to talk to my friends helps me to stay focused so I can keep trucking along. It was fantastic to be able to talk to him... it always is! Thanks Jesus! (I was also to get a lot of reading and a paper done too. Wooh!)

Other things this week that deserve praise:
-As I mentioned in my previous post, my OB professor decided to grade our tests differently so we didn't all fail. YES! I need to keep working hard because she won't be so kind in the future... but I am SO grateful that we were given mercy this time around. Thank you Jesus! That helps to relieve so much stress!
- I got to hang out with my family on Tuesday night! YES! Always the most incredible time. Now that Brian is home, it's like Heaven on Earth when I get to go home. Although I didn't win at Yahtzee this time... my mom is always the winner... it was a fantastic time. I am going home tomorrow too because I had to switch cars so my parents could get mine fixed. Oh darn... I have to go back again... total bummer.....  ;)
- One of the girls in my class reached out to me to help study for OB! I am so grateful for her! I hope it helps!!!
- I had a fantastic time gallivanting across LA with Hunter. Like a mini-break almost! While I had to pay for it with sleepless nights and a crap-ton of catch up work... it was SO wonderful and I am so glad I was able to have some fun!
- We had a conference on Thursday instead of one of my classes. I was so pumped!
- Thursday's third class was also cancelled so I was able to start and finish that group project. One less thing to worry about! It seems like somehow this ended up being like a mini-Spring Break, even though it wasn't supposed to be (and I still had some class lol)
- My dear friend Kodee's sister had a baby; the baby has been sick and in the ICU since her birth. Well the baby has been positively progressing more and more each day! God is truly healing her! It has been a hard battle, but Kodee, Tiffany (her sister), and the sweet little angel of a baby Brooklyn, have all been fighting and praying hard. God is answering our prayers!


Wonderful week! Can't wait to go home tomorrow after clinicals :)

And an ending verse that has been on my heart all week:
If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!- Proverbs 11:27