Another "It's over" post!

 This was my last day as a scrub tech with scrub tech pay! From now on, if I scrub, I will be a nurse with nurse pay! It was a good day.

It's over!

I thought I better make a post and say school is over! I am still trying to figure out if it is all real, but I guess it really is!

Our little group celebrated by having a scrub burning shindig.

 I passed boards and now I am a nurse! I still don't believe it. There are several ways that you can check to see if you have passed and I wouldn't accept them until I saw my name posted on the government website!

I also got 2 full-time job offers. One is in an OR which I took and the other is at a Rehab/nursing home which I will be PRN or part-time for. I still don't believe I have 2 jobs! I know I am blessed, especially during this job market. I am excited to start and see how much I know and how much I need to learn.

 Graduation was boring! They didn't tell us anything about it before hand and the students felt kind of unorganized. Hopefully we were able to fake it until we make it.

 Another exciting thing that happened in the middle of me finding out I passed boards is that Bill's diploma came for his master's. His job needed it as proof and it came 3 months after he was done with school. It was a great weekend!!

 As with any school cliques were formed. But the group I ran around with were the nicest and coolest of them all! I hope we all maintain our friendships for the years to come.

This is my girl. We met in 2nd semester. We helped each other during the good times and bad. I am grateful to know her and have her as a friend. There was a group of 4 of us that leaned on each other, but we didn't get a pic of just the 4 of us for graduation.

 The red, white and blue ropes were for perfect attendance all 5 semesters, the yellow rope is for making the dean's list (a GPA above 3.7). It's funny how we are our own worst critique. All through school I didn't think I was doing good enough, that I wasn't studying hard enough or retaining enough information. I was scared I was going to fail or not pass boards. I felt stupid a lot and afraid almost always. And in the end I did pass boards and I made the dean's list. Which, doesn't really mean anything from this day forward, no job is going to care what my grades and GPA were, but hopefully I will remember this and have more confidence in myself when I go further in my career and education.

 My lovely husby, school was hard and brought some problems, but he stuck by me, let me work minimal hours and always believed in me. I love him with all my heart. Now we are an educated couple!

The fam! My grandpa has always been my number one fan. He knows that whatever I want to do I will accomplish it and he never doubts me for a second. My grandma snuck in some extra prayers for me when I was scared I wouldn't pass my exams. My mom is a proud mama and has spoiled me since I took boards and I have loved every minute of it! My step-mom helped get me the job at the rehab. And my husby has taken me to dinner for the past couple weeks so I didn't have to worry about cooking when I was studying and celebrating! Thanks everyone!

We are expecting!!

A baby boy!