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I just submitted my last paper for this semester. The class was Evidence Based Practice and Research Analysis. It was as fun as it sounds. Actually it wasn’t difficult, the most challenging part was the paper that was assigned. You had to construct an evidence based question related to nursing practice and analyze two articles in order to answer your question.... http://menayo.blog/2021/05/23/end-of-semester/

I have this vision of other peoples’ lives, marriages, relationships with children, that other people have situations that are perfect. Call it a social media phenomenon where people only post the good things, like look how great we are, look what a great time I have with my kids. All. The. Time. I actually unfriended someone on social media because I couldn’t take the perfection of her life, I just couldn’t!... http://menayo.blog/2021/05/18/perfect/

Life for us has taken on a different normal. Alyssa married to Sam, Tommy and I are now in-laws. I still stumble my words when I mention Sam and say my son in law. He’s more than an in law. We really love him and see him as more than the man who married our daughter. Alyssa and Sam now have a puppy named Clayton.... http://menayo.blog/2021/05/16/life/

I love that my daughter is married. Im thrilled that she has a great husband and awesome in-laws. Alyssa and Sam are doing their life their way and I am one of their biggest cheerleaders. God help anyone who would criticize or cause drama; not that anyone would, I’m just saying... Alyssa is 22 years old and Sam is 23. They both have college educations and the college degrees they both worked so very hard for.... http://menayo.blog/2021/05/05/so-different/

My third child, the one who was the baby for 5 years before Samantha came along; turns 20 tomorrow! I really thought she was our last one. My Lelly was a very easy birth, in fact while I was in labor Tommy, the midwife and I were making our way to the birthing room on the next floor of the hospital.... http://menayo.blog/2021/04/28/and-she-turns-20/

When we were small my mom was in college and worked full time. So we spent a lot of time with my grandparents on my mom’s side. Especially on the weekends. My grandfather loved yard sales so that’s how we spent the majority of our Saturday mornings; him with the Saturday paper in hand and off we went. I don’t remember my grandfather bargaining or trying to chew anyone down the price on anything.... http://menayo.blog/2021/04/27/the-thrift-store-and-me/

When your children are small and life is a bit chaotic (it was for us) you think about prom days and wedding days here and there. Actually when we lived in NJ we had like a split level house with stairs leading up to the bedrooms. I watched Alyssa then all of 2 and a half years old walk down those stairs in her Easter dress and thought ahead to watching her walk down the stairs as a young woman.... http://menayo.blog/2021/03/28/after-the-wedding/

Alyssa and Sam were married yesterday. The weather was perfect for March; a sunny, cool clear day. The maid of honor and bridesmaids were beautiful, Sam and his best man and groomsman were unbelievably handsome and my daughter made a stunning bride. I know I am prejudiced she is my daughter but I also know what a pretty young woman she is.... http://menayo.blog/2021/03/22/a-son-in-law/

Alyssa is our oldest girl. She’s two years younger than Thomas, and with him being special needs and the first girl she takes on more of an oldest child personality than anything else. Well this young woman is going to be married in less than 2 weeks! It’s amazing. She and Sam her fiancé have been together since they were about 15-16 years old.... http://menayo.blog/2021/03/09/the-wedding/

Our oldest child, Thomas is 24 years old. It’s mind blowing some days and yet other days it’s perfectly normal for us to have a young adult son of this age. My own age blows my mind. I’m 50. There I said it. I don’t know how or when that happened...Seriously. But there it is. I don’t know if I look my age or not.... http://menayo.blog//marching-to-the-beat-of-your-own-drum/