In Honor of Mr. Pfeifle

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WHOOOOOHOOOOOOOO

It is official! Graduation was last night and pinning is this evening. Now to tackle the State Boards! Soon, another registered nurse will enter the workforce.

Nervous Wreck

I now know how it feels to be a nervous wreck. Last week of school. One final to go. Chitty chitty bang bang is in the back of my mind...I think I can....I think I can. Why am I a nervous wreck? Well, our last final is the "predictor". The HESI. The one test that tests all of the knowledge I have acquired over the past two years. Let's hope that knowledge gets me a passing grade! One more trip through the doors...

Early Spring

The ice is off the lakes. It came off nearly 2 weeks ago. I believe this year holds the record. Since then, we have had a few rain showers, including thunderstorms. The grass is green and the flowers (at least my iris') have poked their greens through the ground. The roads have frost boils and need to be graded. Spring is in the air!

Motivation

Took the girls to the MRA finals rodeo this evening. I decided that they had an excellent idea on how to motivate kids to help their parents work cattle. They asked all the 6 to 14 year olds to report to the arena. They taped $5 bills to 3 calves. Before letting the kids go to chase the cattle, they allowed the girls to take a giant step forward for a head start. In order to be fair to the boys, they decided that the boys should get a kiss from the girls who were in front of them. (Ha!) That didn't go over like they had intended. :)

They released the calves and the line of kids took off like a shot. They chased them to the east end of the pen and all the way back over to the west end to team up on them and finally pulled the $5 bills off of the calves. It was quite a site to see! Who needs cow dogs and horses? Simply tape their allowance to the critter and let em run!

One liner

Finally another one liner worth sharing!

"Mom! Could you turn down the air conditioning? It is getting hot in here!"

--while dancing to Just Dance III

By the way, it is 10 degrees outside.

Contest

When I bought the gingerbread kits, I never realized how tough of a decision I would have to make when it came time to judge the contest. Three little girls worked hard on their masterpieces while mom and dad did chores. They mixed the frosting per the instructions, included in the box and very carefully put thought and creativity into their little homes.

After each one was finished, not knowing which artist was responsible for each, I chose the winner, 2nd place, and 3rd place artists, which happened to rate from oldest to youngest. Luckily, mom is smart and bought 3 equal prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The 3 happy little artists were just fine with that! Aren't they beautiful?