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

Phew Last test at EAC

The Lord is so Good! I passed my Hesi exam this Thursday with score of 890....Hip Hip Hooray! I felt "relief" and "success" instead of an excited emotion. I now am allowed to take my state board exam (aka NCLEX) so thanks for your prayers and words of encouragement as I was studying to take my Hesi. Then excitement came later as I realized that I could text pple I passed!

~Happy Valentine's Day~

You know who is the real lover of my soul? I bet you guessed right, Jesus Christ.

Psalm 62:1-2
My soul finds rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

I read in Hebrews today about faith. Of course many may know this book contains the famous hall of faith, however, it's full of Jesus' sacrifices and promises for what he's done in my life. I'm so grateful. At the end of chapter 11 it states in verses 39 and 40 "These were all commend for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."
God has promised something even better for those who are allowing his will to be done in their lives. I've also been taught by obeying his commands, keeping in his love, you are actually submitting to His will even in the small areas of our lives then when comes the bigger decisions you've already been making Christ first you'll know and He'll reveal His will without hesitation. Why didn't the pple like Moses get into the promised land? God knows and he'll bring about His "something better."

Teamwork and Christ's body

It's reality when I go to work and pple who gossip, and demean others - it's a team effort isn't it? The housekeeping is busy and very helpful they usually go about their work without any words of affirmation, or being told to do something from my observation they get their job done. The other pple working with me don't speak much to them. Talk about the lowly pple on this earth. This saddens me. How come we think we are better than them? We would have to clean it up if they didn't so they are part of the team too. 1 Cor. 12:12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. (vs. 25) so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. (vs. 27) Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.