Mr. Butterfly

I am happy for him. He is engaged and involved in a way I don't think I was in high school. But is it bad of me to complain that my son's social calendar seems way too busy?

Colt is involved in Orchestra - great but weekly sectionals seems a bit much.

Colt is in Key Club this year, they meet every other Wednesday after school and we don't know the volunteer events yet. I am sure there is something monthly, after all what is Key Club for?

Colt is in the Latin Club and in a position for an office - run-off are this week. The Latin Club meets every other Thursday.

Then we have tutoring, either before or after school, for those persons who need a little extra assistance or validation or social connections. I think it is a bit of all of those for Colt.

We have things at church he is active in; Altar Servers, Called By Name and now Wayfarers on the third Tuesday of each month, and Word on Wednesday, every Wednesday starting later this month.

We had to get on him last night for being a good citizen. Made me feel terrible. But he spends a lot, and I mean A LOT, of time helping other people with their homework. It is good but it puts him behind on doing his own homework and then he is up until 11pm trying to finish his stuff.  Not cool. So we set a rule, no helping other people until your homework is finished.

Now what is bad is that his mother is usually asleep at the time he is finished at school. I think I really need to work on changing my sleeping time so that I can pick him up in the afternoon. Why did I not get him in driver's ed before he was a junior?

Last night we had to sit down with all of our schedules and plot out who can get the boy from school each day. I never had to do that with Amy. Or maybe I knew that Amy would take the initiative and get home from school and then take my car to go pick up her brother from his social events at school. I miss Amy:-(

Either way, I need to get him in driver's ed and then get him driving. And then Mr. Butterfly needs a vehicle.
*sigh* if only he had wings and could really fly.

Passionate and Loving It

I was nominated for the Good Samaritan Award. I ended up being chosen as a bronze medalist.Those of us there were chosen out of hundreds of nominees for being passionate about nursing and leaders in our field. I was so surprised that I was the only only chosen from my hospital and Northwest Houston. I got a certificate of the award and a pin to wear to designate my bronze medal. I would love to see my nomination to see what got me this award. It really was a big deal, my manager and the Assistant Chief Nursing officer were there with Vernon and me at lunch.

Every year the nursing leaders in Houston review and select from these nominations to select the best nurses out there who go above and beyond to represent the soul of nursing. they award Bronze medals to the runners-up and then a Silver medal and a Gold medal in each category. I was thrilled to see one of the professors from St. Thomas University won the Gold medal for her work as a Nursing Educator. Her statement touched in that she feels her whole life has been moving to the point where she could work at St Thomas to reestablish their Nursing Program. She started as an ADN, like me, and moved on to her BSN, MSN and then Doctorate in Nursing. What an amazing woman!

On that note, let me tell everyone that I have applied for enrollment to University of Texas Arlington to pursue my BSN. I have learned that I need to complete another college math, one Government, two US History and one Technical Writing  before I get into the Nursing portion of the degree plan. It will all be online and should take about 1-2 years with working full time.

As nursing is the most trusted profession in the United States, please take a moment to go to the Good Samaritan Foundation site and donate to support such an honorable profession for other passionate nurses out there. Who knows, you might be helping me to get my BSN!