I wanted to be like Florence Nightengale

Soulful Life Friday.

A white cap with black stripes does not a nurse make.

Ran across my nurses caps today.

They had been washed, starched and ironed and hanging on a coat hanger.

A symbol of a dream come true for me. 

That is what it is, a symbol.
 

I got to thinking how much and how hard I worked for the privilege to wear that cap.

I was an x-ray technician for 25 years and when new techniques using nuclear medicine came along I was going to have to go for additional training; so

because I wanted to go to college when I graduated from high school and couldn't I took the opportunity to be trained as a technician instead.

If I was going to have to go back to school I was going full force.

In 1976 I started one college course, English 101 and made an A. We had 6 children by then and I could only afford 1 class at a time.

It took me ten years to get through nursing but the day I got my pin and my cap was the happiest day of my life just behind get married to the greatest man and having my children.

Long before I retired from nursing, no one wore the cap any more and I hung my white crisp uniform, white shoes and my cap up and began to wear scrubs.

I thank my family and God everyday I was able to have that dream come true.

I will never forget that first day on the hospital floor.

A new nurse.

I loved every minute of it.

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Sepia Saturday- theme-games

While Alan is out gaming around the world we are visiting our SS pals and entering the world of games.
My photos are not old this week but it was fun to retrieve and post about them.

No game is more fun than with grands.



When our grands were small they would be with us a lot.

They would stay with us when their parents were to be out of town or just for the fun of it.

We had a lot of fun with all of them.

These two probably spent more time with us after we were retired so we had more time to actually play with them.

These are some of our younger grands.

Our oldest daughter married young and her three daughters are much older and not into playing games with Papaw and QMM at this time.

This young lady is ready to enter collage to be a 
Registered Nurse.

HH loved to play checkers.
He felt he had a responsibility to teach them to play.
He would never let them win on purpose.
Would make me angry but he said they would never learn if he did that.
He was right. 

The young lady will soon enter college to be a veterinarian.

She would often play vet for her brother who liked to pretend he was a monkey.

This silly nilly will soon enter college to be an engineer so he can follow his father into the family business.


Now HH and I were playing Uno with these two but I promise you we were not holding our cards with our feet. LOL

These two loved to play explorer.
Here they are in their tent with their lunch and notice the eye glass at the foot of the one going to study engineering.

The one on the right is planning to study in the field of medical forensics.
She did an internship in the U of L Cancer Research Center this past summer. 


All of these photos were taken around the year 2000.




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