Dreaming Of Christmas

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas. It is my favorite time of year. And now that I live in Wisconsin it is the most wonderful thing in the world to have a white christmas. My family and I always wake up on Christmas morning and get our cups of coffee, put on Christmas music, and my Dad lights a fire in the fireplace. And then one by one we go through and each open a present. It usually takes at least an hour. Afterwords my Dad makes gas stations eggs for breakfast. It's funny how traditions can be so special. I think the most exciting thing about Christmas will be once I have kids. It will be so great to give them gifts from Santa, and to leave out cookies and milk. We would always go to church Christmas Eve night, and right as we were leaving and in the car my mom would put out this huge candy house that she made. And then when we got home from church it would be there from "santas elves." .....And then my Mom told me there was no such thing as santa. I think deep down I knew, cause I was pretty old. I think I was.....12. At that point I dont think any of my friends believed in Santa anymore but I wanted to believe so bad. When my Mom told me I was pretty crushed, and she threw in the Easter Bunny and the Toothfairy too!!! Thanks alot Mom!!!
Anyways I love Thanksgiving too but this is the second year in a row that I have to work on Thanksgiving, so I am not getting that excited about it this year. I think I am off next year.
Oh, and the most exciting thing in the world has happened....drum roll please. I am starting my nursing clincals in January. I dont think most people know just what this means. Most of the schools have a waiting list to start the actual nursing classes, which include nursing theory classes and the clinicals where you are actually out in hospitals and nursing homes. You take all your pre-requisites (anatomy, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry) and then you are able to start you nursing classes but since I had to wait I got ALL my classes done. Now I just need my nursing classes and then I can graduate. Before I knew when I was going to start my clinicals there was never an end date in sight. Now I know I will be done, and officially be a nurse fall 2009, which seems like a really far way off, but really it's only 4 semesters and I know each one will go by fast. Next semester I will be very busy I have nursing classes everyday. Mon, Tues and Wed I have nursing skills, nursing fundamentals, and nursing pharmacology, and then thurs and fri (from 7 am...ouch- to 1 pm) I have my clincals which will be at the Wisconsin Lutheran Care Center next semester. The first semester they always start you out at a nursing home. I am not worried though I already have so much experience. I have been working as a nursing assistant for a total of 3 years, in two different hospitals. And 6 months ago I took my tech class, which means i am a step above a nursing asssitant and can do more technical things. Like, trach care and suctioning, starting tube feeding and even enemas, yeah!!! All the things i already know how to do and am already comfortable doing will be things they cover in the first semester. So I am exciting that I will have a little bit of an edge already going into clincials. Anyways....totally rambling on. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.