I was tagged!

After I posted about my life I checked out comments on my last post. As I understand it I have been tagged (by Christa) to list 7 random things about me. My goodness, I think everyone knows all there is to know about me but here goes!

1. I love God with all my heart
2. My family is very precious to me
3. So are my friends
4. I love seeing "light bulbs" come on in my students brains (that really is not a rare event)
5. My favorite music: classics, the Collingsworth, old Gaither songs, some southern gospel
6. My favorite author is: Gilbert Morris, Beverly Lewis, Janette Oak, Lori Wick-just to name a few!
7. My favorite trip overseas was England and Scotland

That's it folks! Now I have to tag someone, who will it be?

Well, it's about time...

Been a long time hasn't it? Hopefully, friends and family have not given up on me and no longer check my site. So, it is "ketchup" time!

The last ten weeks have been extremely busy with work. My 10 week class is over so I think I will have more time to do something that is worth posting. In spite of the busyness I have been able to do a few fun things. Enjoy the pictures.

September found me enjoying a couple of Saturday outings with a friend of mine from work.

My first outing was to the Falls of the Ohio for a rock show. Bought my first rock and enjoyed sitting along the river having lunch, eating ice cream, and talking. It was a great day. Never thought I would ever be interested in rocks or fossils-I guess it is the company you keep! :) That is Louisville peeking under the railroad bridge. A few weeks later found us at Chatuqua of the Arts in Madison. Another beautiful day outside.

In October I flew to Little Rock, AK overnight to practice a presentation for the med surg conferenc in late October. My friend Gloria and I were presenting a book review on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

October 24-29 was spent in Las Vegas at the 16th annual national convention of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses. It was my priviledge to be the chair of the program planning committee which means we arranged for all the speakers at the convention. Thus I was able to welcome all 1100 participants in the opening ceremony and introduce our entertainment for the. I know you be as excited about this as I was when you see our picture!

Will Elvis never die? I went out a day early so that I could enjoy the Nevada landscape and do what I wanted to do before all my friends hit town. Red Rock Canyon-very gorgeous!-I'm talking about the canyon now NOT me! The leaves on the few trees they have do turn colors.

No that is NOT me in the front of this car on the Insanity ride! Her husband paid her to take this ride!. Once the car extends out from the Stratesphere way up above Vegas it then extends just a little ways beyond the track and then the whole thing tips downward. I am sure it is a gorgeous view but I think I will stay in the observation deck!

Love that '57 Chevy!

Oh yes, I forgot to tell you that I had to help resuscitate a man in respiratory arrest on the plane when we were about 30 minutes from landing in Vegas. I'll spare you the details but it was no fun at all!

Our keynote speaker for Thursday night was Leann Thieman. She is an LPN who went to Viet Nam to bring home 6 orphans from Saigon and was told it was completely safe. Just before she arrived in Saigon they had a major battle there and it was terribly unsafe and instead of 6 babies she helped bring 300 babies-one she adopted! Leann helps to compile stories for the Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul. The second volume is coming out in December-hint, hint family of mine! I was able to help her sell books that night as she autographed books. It was lots of fun.

Another fun thing I did with Gloria and her sister was to attend the musical called Menopause! Talk about hilarious-we laughed the entire 90 minutes of the performance. Leann says we need to laugh 400 times a day to stay healthy-we did it all in that 90 minutes. The musical is perfomed by 4 women in menopause-what a spoof. Actually it was very educational about the symptoms of menopause. It was definately worth the money!

Game: who am I? This picture was taken at the Ivy Tech Faculty Retreat day last Friday. The topic was Generational Differences. The tables were decorated around a theme of a decade of the 1900's. I was invited to sit at table with the theme of the Andy Griffith show. So who was I and family who in the world do at look like! Pretty scary uh?


I wore my Grandma G's hat, borrowed pearls, Aunt Callie's cameo broach, a shawl made for me many years ago, my gloves and purse with my Grandma G's hankie sticking out the purse. People said I was the best look alike for Aunt Bee! Don't know if that was a complement or not but I do know I was chosen for this role because I already looked like Aunt Bee!



Well folks, that catches you up on my happenings for the past month or two. Hopefully, I am back in the swing of things now.

Love ya all!

My sister is on my case!

Linda says it is PAST time I update my blog, she is tired of looking at the wedding dress blog. Imagine that...If you have kept up with her blogs you know why I haven't blogged. She has said it all and while she was blogging I was trying to catch some rest after our hectic days of cleaning out Dad's house!


Anyway, I am back to work full-time now and am grateful Dad is just across the street from school. It makes it easy to just drive over after work. I have one frustrating class on Mondays. I teach 5 HOURS to 30 students in class and then another 30 are scattered around Region 10 in Seymour, Nashville, Franklin and Greensburg! I communicate with via them video. So I have at least 3 remotes to control, a laptop and a computer project to worry about along with trying to teach. Thank goodness that class is only 10 weeks long-2 down and only 8 to go. :)


Linda posted a wonderful tribute to Dad on her blog-I certainly can't improve on anything she said BUT I have pictures from yesterday! Enjoy.


Dad opening his cards. His got several from the family and then the church gave him a card shower. He received 18 from church family. I understand there are more cards in the mail. I put some up on his bulletin board tonight and will rotate different ones every few days. He really enjoyed the cards! Sorry about the messy kitchen in the background.



Dad and Janet in her front yard.







Aunt Joyce and Uncle Hubert Gideon (Mom's brother and wife). Cheryl: note the china cabinet in the background.

A little bragging is in order. Remember my posting on Adrenalin Rush? It got published in the latest issue of MedSurg Matters Newsletter which is published by the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses professional organizaton! I'm quite excited about this. If I could only make time to write a full-fledged article for publishing. I have had several "moments that matter" type things and devoltionals published but not a full professional article yet. Maybe someday.

The Lady on Her Wedding Day

I found this poem the other day that was written by Linda and I when we were MUCH younger! As you can tell we learned rhyming from our father and also learned that rhyming didn't have to make sense! Enjoy.

The Lady on Her Wedding Day

The lady on her wedding day dressed in pink,

Went home to the farm to find that hogs do stink.

The lady on her wedding day dressed in white,

Went to the beauty parlor and came out a sight.

The lady on her wedding day dressed in blue,

Went to Kalamazoo and came back with a monkey that looks like you.

The lady on her wedding day dress in green,

Went to the grocery store and came back with a little bean.

The lady on her wedding day dressed in yellow,

Went to the ball and thought she was Cinderella.

The lady on her wedding day dressed in red,

After she was fed found she was too big for her bed.

The lady on her wedding dressed in black,

Chased a bug and fell in a potato sack.

The lady on her wedding day dressed in purple,

Ate so much she turned into a circle.

By Linda and Janet Burton

Date: Unknown

Things I do not tell Dad....

What in the world? Where did all those flies come from?

Thus were my thoughts as I walked by Dad's car today when I was going in to clean his house. There were oodles of them flying around inside his car! I quickly rolled down all the windows and dodged them as they flew out the windows in all directions. Whew. I made my way inside the house and keeping thinking-what made all those flies get inside that car? Then it hit me-garbage! Sure enough there was an old full garbage bag in his trunk that had never found its way to the landfill. I placed that bag inside a new garbage bag and left the trunk open too. Everyonce in awhile I would check the progress of the fly exodus. Thoughts of Pharoah came to my mind at times. By afternoon most of them had left but I knew I had to get rid of the rest of them. Took a broom to them-helped some but not enough. I decided that maybe if I took the car for a drive with the windows down that they would all fly out. Good thought but it didn't happen because I couldn't get the car started!!!! Now what!???? It was about to rain so I had to put the windows up again while I tried to find someone to jump start the battery. Marvin is going to do that in the morning. Please don't tell Dad, Ok?

My Dad Willie

Dad at dinner at Silver Oaks.

My Dad is a very special person who is well loved by many people. When I think of my Dad I am reminded of 3 P's. He is a man of principle, a man of prayer, and a lover of people. Dad has stood for the principles of God's Word all my life. Some may not have agreed with him but he always did what he thought was right. Dad has never been afraid to testify for Jesus, I have never met anyone who can work a testimony into every conversation with a stranger. Many people remember Dad saying, "Stand real still while I pray for you." It didn't matter if it was at the end of his line at the Jay C Store, the Cracker Barrell, a parking lot, etc. Dad is always ready to pray with you. Daddy has never met a stranger in his life. His ready smile, silly rhymes, jokes, and those jumping biceps can always bring smiles to others. And we can't forget those stories that he loves to tell over and over to whomever will listen! Dad loves his girls, his granddaughters all thier husbands and their children. Dad just loves everyone!

Dad's days are limited on this earth and it looks like he will spend them some place other than his home. His memory is failing and he is no longer able to live independently. I have attached some pictures of him in the Silver Oaks Health Campus where he now resides. Pray for all of us as it is an adjustment for us as well as him.

Dad standing in the lobby of one of the entrances to the transitional care unit.

Dad in his favorite position-sleeping!

Dad sitting on the patio outside the dining room.

Oh my, I need to get a picture of him and his "horse"! Maybe tomorrow!

He's Here! Finally!

Colton Ross Hunt arrived May 31 at 10:05 PM! He weighed in at 8 lbs/10 oz, was 20 inches long and he head was 14.5 inches. That hurts! His mommy worked real hard to birth him naturally but ended up with an epidural and a c-section. Proud parents are my niece and her husband: Jeff and Susan (Scarbrough) Hunt.

Colton comes from a book that Susan read several years ago and Ross is a tribute to my Mom's birth father (he died when Mom was about 2 years old). Susan has Mom's middle name-Iris.

They came home from the hospital today.