Thankful Thursday | some days off? NICE.

This week, I am thankful:

for a calmer school week

So far, the pediatrics workload has been way less than the mental health/med surg workload. Yay!

The pediatrics schedule is a little more efficiently compacted, which means that there are multiple weeks where I have either an empty Monday or an empty Friday (or occasionally both!)

Maybe I will feel a little more sane for the next eight weeks than I did the previous eight weeks.

that I’m excited about a pediatrics rotation

During our orientation to pediatrics this week, the professors were talking about techniques to use when working with pediatric patients, and much of it seemed very common sense to me because I have obviously spent years and years taking care of children (my own!)

So, I am not really nervous about pediatric clinicals; I think I will be immediately comfortable with this patient population.

that I’m making steady progress at the gym

My “slow-and-consistent” approach is working because I am slowly but steadily able to increase the weights on the exercises I am doing. And that makes me happy!

I wish I had taken a video of me doing lunges at the start of the summer to compare to now.

I know I was struggling to complete the sets of unweighted lunges back then, but now I can knock out sets of weighted lunges quite nicely.

that there are finally fall colors outside

Suddenly, in just the last week, the view outside my window here has become full of yellow and red and I love it!

It is wild how fast trees do things. In the spring, I feel like I blink and poof! The trees are covered in green. And now the change in color feels similarly sudden.

that I am still in nursing school

As much as I would like to be done with school, I feel grateful to still be here. Not everyone passes each class, so each term, we lose some students.

I would be heartbroken if I’d come this far and then had to drop out, and I do not take my presence here for granted. 

Nursing school is hard, but having to leave the program would be even harder!

that Lisey got her braces off

I’m so happy for her! She cheerfully got through the difficulty of wearing visible braces as an adult (and fielded a lot of, “I thought you were 15!” comments), but now her teeth are all fixed and she gets to enjoy life with no braces.

that the weather’s been nice enough to walk to school all week

I haven’t driven to school a single time this week; I’ve just been getting there and back on foot power. 🙂

It is a convenient way to get my walk in when a class starts too early for a regular Kristen walk.

that it’s not humid

I am relieved and delighted to be in a less-humid time of the year.

and in closing…some JASNA photos

You all requested some photos from A. Marie’s Jane Austen Society adventures, so she sent some to me, asking if I could attach them to a comment. But since I can’t embed them there, I’ll just include them here, and A. Marie can pop in and explain the photos to you in a comment!

What are you thankful for this week?