Registered Nurse

This morning I woke up and looked at my alarm clock it read 6:49. I tumbled out of bed and turned on my dad's iMac and quickly popped on the state board of nursing site to see if I had passed my NCLEX exam from yesterday. I typed in my name "A-m-y tab G-a-t-w-o-o-d clicked verify" and it read applicant passed test. ! I was soooo excited. I went in my mom's room and told her I passed she embraced me and was so excited with me. Then I refreshed the page with "verify" and it gave me my license number!! Next I called John.
Yesterday my test was in Mesa. It gave me 256 questions. I took one break - but I felt like I had a reading disability the length of how long it took was agonizing. About 55 minutes were left from the original 6 (hrs). All that to say it was an experience & so glad I don't have to retake it! But I'm so happy that people of my church family were praying for me.
Tonight my family went out to celebrate at La Casita....my mother and father both had the idea of bringing me a celebration gift - dad brought home a cheesecake, yum. While mom brought a card, flowers, monkey, and balloons. How special to celebrate with the ones who have seen you gone through the testing, nursing school and homework assignments. Thank you Lord for my family. They are so greatly appreciated all the time.

Arizona in March

Botanical Garden - the butterfly exhibit

Saguaro cactus

Another close up

Phoenix Suns game!!!

Mike & I

Phoenix Spring Break

This is my first Spring Break that I'm actually out of school for YAY! Celebrate! My parents have a reservation in Phoenix and I have been asked to coordinate the activities. I think the Imax theatre will be fun, there's always shopping, eating out, Yum. God is so faithful this morning I got a phone call for my first nursing interview for Duke Hospital in Durham. I'm so excited & nervous it's March eighteenth. I was able to schedule my NCLEX/State boards on the 23rd. So here I go at the books again. So much for Spring Break. :D

Anticipating Spring!!!

Today is March 3rd amazing! Thatcher is at 85 degrees today. How nice! Mike was just telling me his midterm is coming up. "So it's the middle of the semester already?" I said. Spring break for his and Ann's school is coming up next week. John's spring break is this week and he also gets a Easter break. Which I have grown to love the Easter holiday. My mother would say it's her favorite holiday. I remember there are pictures of the kid: Andrea & me wearing matching dresses my mom made for us - while Mike would be wearing nice church clothes. I hope I can sew that good one day. I'm working on a patriotic wall hanging right now it's almost finished...with the help of my mom she really knows what she is doing. She asked if I wanted a sewing machine he he what a nice idea! :D
I need to go enjoy today's weather...I keep checking my e-mail to see if I can schedule my test. It's killing me how long it's taking. But I will make it. *smile