This weeks clinicals were short. we had to take ATI testing at 8:ooam and then head over to clinicals @ 10:00am. ATI testing is suppose to be a personal evaluation tool/test to give an idea of where we'd test on NCLEX. I did pretty well and will not have to take a practice test to turn in later next week. Yea! one less thing to worry about. At clinical i had the pleasure of sitting in on a full psych evaluation. It was really interesting. It goes step by step of the patients current problems, family hstory, current living situations, current medication, mental status and tons of other things. It was 2 1/2 hours long and i had to pee though the whole thing. I finally had to get up toward the end to go. I figured it would be more embrassing if i peed my pants. I receieved my grade for my concept map. I got a high B. Which is great. This teacher is murder on papers and a B in her class is an A in any other. Its nice to have it over with now i can concetrate on tests and the BIG math test coming up. I'm not looking forward to it. Its a test that we must pass to get though the program. we get 3 chances to pass with a 90% or higher that means we can miss 2 out of 20 questions. Brutal huh? Oh one last thing i had to do manual blood pressure tuesday too. Boy was i out of practice. I have been so spoiled by the eletronic one at the hospital. So it took me a few minutes and me looking like a bumbling idiot in front of my patients, but i did get the hang of it and am not looking foward to it again. I sure i get to though, our next instrusctor LOVES manual blood pressure if for nothing else than to torture us. Its going to be lovely, and you all will get to hear about it! until next time....

so i know that i tell stories about school and clinicals but i need to share my day from today. I had the most wonderful time with my daughter. We had to get up super early for her meet, like 5am. We did have enough time to get breakfast and coffee together. We talked all the way down there about odds and ends, got lost alittle on the way there, which we always find funny, and finally made it to the meet. I can't explain the way i feel when i watch her compete. She so strong, detrmined and graceful during her events and in between times shes cutting up and laughing with her friends. I have finally quit crying after every event but i still pray everytime that God will give her sticky feet and the concentation she needs. I am never more proud though when she is a good friend. There have been times when a team mate has done poorly or gotten hurt and Natalie is the first one there to offer comfort. Atfer the meet we went to dinner with the grandparents and again has so much fun trading stories. when we got home we had drank hot tea together and talked about the day and the week to come. Shes is the funniest kid i know, she clever and witty with her humor. I loved being with Natalie today, Just her and I laughing the day way.