His Eye Is on the Sparrow...

...and I know He watches me!

This morning is evidence! :) First of all, let me back up a few hours...

Ok...so yesterday I knew I would be up late into the night working on my clinical assignments for school (since you don't get your assignments until noon on Thurs. and they are due early Fri. morning!). I have another class that is later in the afternoon, and this cuts out a few hours from the time I have to write up all my super long assignments and review my nursing "skills"!

Long story short...I was up until midnight working on them and then finally collapsed into bed, after setting my two alarm clocks to get up at 5:15am (one for back-up just in case the other doesn't, for some odd reason, go off! ;)

Anyway, this morning I woke up to my dad asking me if I should be getting up and ready to go (to which I was thinking that I had left myself plenty of time to get ready before I had to be at clinicals at 6:45). When I looked over at my clock...to my petrified demise, it was 6:15...the time I was planning on leaving!!! Now, before you all freak-out and lose sleep from worring about me ;)...I'll just tell you that I made it there 5min early! (yep...now you know how fast I can get ready if I need to---and I sure was glad that I planned last night to get there extra-early---SIDE NOTE: my family knows that I can take the fastest or the longest shower...and nowhere in between! :) Although...today there was absolutely no time for even my fastest!

It was just amazing how everything worked out with such a late start:

my super-dad got me up just in the nick-of-time,

my wonderful sister whipped up a sandwich for my lunch, and

all of my nursing supplies and my scrubs were laid out to grab and go (which I had--not by chance--done last night)

Then, as I was driving there, I started singing praise to Him who is in control...when I was reminded of the verse I had read late last night right before I went to sleep:

"Because you are my help,

I sing in the shadow of your wings."

~Psalm 63:7

Our Lord watches over the entire universe...yet His eye is on each one of us!

Praise the LORD!

~Eliza

Results

I Passed!!!!!!!

I am so excited!

I also just got a letter of acceptance to the RN school at NTC!

Here are some flowers that my friend Julie gave me before I left for my test.

They are soooo beautiful!

Thanks Julie!

~Katelyn

Well I took my NCLEX exam yesterday, and I don't think I did to great. I won't get my results until Tuesday or Wednesday, but it was really hard! The way the test is made, when you get one wrong, you get more of that same type of question. Such as if you get a question about a drug and you get it wrong, you get more questions about drugs! So I had one area that I hadn't even thought of studying, and almost all my questions were from this area! Oh well, that's how you learn. Mom and I had a GREAT trip though, it was fun to just do something mother and daughter! We went down on Friday night and found our hotel, we got a good deal on a suite, so we had a full sized kitchen and a king size bed (we slept good!). After checking in we went to Olive Garden and had a great meal, went in the hot tub, then went to bed. The next morning we got up and we were heading out the door and I totally SLID down the ramp! We didn't notice we had an ice storm in the middle of the night and it was glare ice! When we got to the car, we had to crack a hole in the 1/2 inch thick ice that layered our car so that we could get down to the windshield and scrape. Wow did we scrape, we were running late at this point so I was trying to go so fast and pieces of ice were flying everywhere! We made it there safely and right on time, even though we couldn't go past about 5 miles an hour. But I did forget it was slippery and almost did the splits getting out of the car again! At the check in for the test they took my drivers license, took my picture, did a vein scan on both hands a few times, took my finger print 3 times, then before entering the room checked my ID again and did another vein scan! Wow! They they go on to tell you that you will be video taped and audio taped! Talk about security! After the test Mom and I went for coffee and shopped till we dropped! It was a fun weekend, but knowing if I passed or not will top it off! Thanks for all you prayers, they were really appreciated! ~Katelyn

Adventure

You've gotta love it when something small becomes an adventure...

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For instance...this afternoon, while my friend and I were videotaping a nursing skills test-out, the fire alarm went off!!! Students are told to NEVER stop the video tape during a test-out. So, of course, we took that very seriously...to the extent that we didn't dare turn it off even when there could be a fire---this goes to show how dedicated nurses are ;)---and we decided to keep going unless someone came to tell us to stop. Part of our reasoning behind this is that almost every time a fire alarm goes off, there isn't a fire...as was the case today. A few minutes later, it turned off and we continued our test-out in peace! ;)

Probably the funniest part of this little "adventure" was that the video was running the entire time that we stood there, stunned, wondering and discussing about what we should do! It should definitely make our teacher laugh when she watches it!

It sure made us laugh!!!

Isn't it great when things happen totally out of the blue and help to break up the day? ;)

(You all are probably thinking at this point that I am crazy to be thinking of this as an adventure...but when you spend hours studying, little things become much bigger!)

~Eliza