I love a challenge and I am always looking for a new challenge to try to finish. When I saw the “Thirty Things About Me” challenge, I knew that I just had to try to complete this challenge as well. There are no specific rules with this challenge like there are with the A to […] More
Many times as parents we have to come up with ways to reward our kids for good behavior. Many times we resort to sticker charts, and that means every time we run out of stickers we have to buy more. It doesn’t seem like much, but before you know it you have a ton of […] More
Everyone has a favorite quote or quotes. Many times these quotes are something that stick with you because have a significant meaning in your life. For me, I have a collection of quotes that I love and that speak significant meaning in my life. I thought I would take this chance to share those quotes […] More
If you have read around my blog, you know that I have talked about food allergies in the past, more specifically, my daughter’s milk allergy. When I was making out my editorial calendar for April and came across “P” for the challenge, I thought what better topic than peanut allergy? Peanut allergy is the most […] More
It’s Monday, so I am back at it for the A to Z Challenge, thankfully I am over halfway done! Today I decided to talk to you about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. I joke all the time that I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder because I am so picky about where things go and how […] More
Many people are familiar with nightmares or bad dreams, but night terrors are a completely different thing. My brother used to start screaming in the middle of the night for no reason. He would sit straight up in his bed and scream “GET OFF ME, LEAVE ME ALONE!!” and it would scare the heck out […] More
(This post marks the halfway point of the A to Z Challenge! How exciting, just 13 more posts after this one and I will have made it through the challenge alive!) What better word for “M” than money? Money consumes many of our thoughts and our daily lives. We work so we can make money […] More
This post is a little different than my usual posts, but I was struggling to come up with something for “L” for the A to Z Challenge and I didn’t want to only do medical conditions and such for the whole month. I thought that love would be a fitting topic because it fits in […] More
Yup, it’s time to cover another disease you have never heard of. If you are new here, I will let you in on a little secret, as a nurse I love to use my blog to bring awareness to things that many people have never heard of before. As a pediatric, labor and delivery, and […] More
Juvenile diabetes, also known as type 1 diabetes, is a condition in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin, which is a hormone needed to help process sugar into energy. It usually occurs during childhood or adolescence, but has been known to begin in adults. There is currently no cure for type 1 diabetes, though there […] More
If you are new here you may not know that I cover a lot of difficult subjects. This is no exception. Infertility is often something that many people don’t think about, but I have been thinking about it a lot lately, not because of my own issues, but because of friends who have struggled with […] More
When I started filling out my editorial calendar for April during the last week in March, I struggled with some letters. I had no idea what I was going to write about for some of the letters and resorted to Google for some ideas. Then, my sister texted me to tell me that my father was […] More
