About Me

Spanish fork, Utah
I've been married for 29 years. I have 5 children, 4 boys and a girl. My oldest is married with 4 sons. My daughter is also married. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, a runner, a nurse, a student and a friend. I am currently working on my Master's degree in Nursing Education through Western Governors University.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Awesome and awkward Thursday

Awkward and awesome Thursday

Start with awesome....
48th birthday this week and my husband sent me beautiful roses made from what I thought was white chocolate with red velvet cake pops dipped in white chocolate.    What better birthday gift than chocolate?

after spending a long day at the hospital with a relative I came home and found my house spotless, thanks to my wonderful husband.  This was no small feat since I was canning blackberry jam the night before and in my effort to get out most of the weeds I got berry juice on just about every dish I owned and every spot of the kitchen.  

Homemade blackberry jam,   awesome, had to buy new jars and a canner (for the second batch), but it was worth it.  Even if it doesn't taste as awesome as I might like it to, just seeing those jars sitting on the kitchen counter gives me a real sense of satisfaction.  I left them there extra long, just to admire my work:)   Hopefully there will be one more batch, only not getting out all the seeds this time, too much work and mess.  Doing little stuff like that helps satisfy the part inside me that keeps nagging at me, telling me I need to be more of a Molly Mormon.  Like canning my own jam is going to get me into the Celestial Kingdom...NOT!

Kind of awkward...
Construction/working on the water system in my front yard starting bright and early at 0800.  Did you konw they start with a drill that looks and sounds a Goliath sized dentist drill?   I hate dentists.

Awkward....
Anyone that knows me knows how much I hate spiders!    I shutter just thinking about them.  I currently have a massively huge garden spider outside my window, which keeps distracting me and making me shutter.  They like the blackberries, I think I will be letting Bob pick the rest of them.....  I tried to get a picture to add to this post, but apparently all of our cameras have dead batteries and my phone has something wrong with the lense making it all blurry.  I sent the blurry picture to my facebook if you want to check it out.  I decided I didn't want a big old spider picture on my blog anyway.

Really awkward!!!!
Realizing that the nurse taking care of my family member had worked agency with me before and I am pretty sure someone had asked that she not return to our unit because she worked so slowly.    Not sure if she recognized me or remembered because she never mentioned it, but she gave my dad great care, so it all turned out ok.   

Motivational quote

"To hate is easy, to love is courageous"