Officially Summer Can Began

A 95%, this is what I earned in my community hospital rotation. It's not quite what I expected, as I felt like considering ALL factors, I should have earned a 100% but that may just be the optimist in me.

Aside from this, Summer has started for me!!!!

Let's take a moment to Turn up, Turn up, Turn up!

Now that I've officially been turnt, it's time for me to really get working.

It's funny that I feel this way, but I'll explain the way I'm feeling... For a while I felt because I was a mother and wouldn't allow myself to be as flexible as my colleagues, that I did't quite measure up to them. It was hard for me feeling that way because I'm use to being the achiever always in everything!

However it was something that I prayed upon and it was like immediately God just started opening doors for me. From that moment forth I promised myself that I would make the best of my situation, trust God, and just remain passionate. And like I previously mentioned God started opening doors and that just made things gravy.

So the summer rolls around and my peers are posting pictures of themselves on corporate internships, and traveling the world to gain experience. While at the same time not as many doors are opening as before. Actually, I've been knocking into thin air trying to find doors to open. Nothing!

 In my quest to get back on track I've set a few summer goals that I hope to accomplish.

1. Write and publish 5 articles
2. Work on developing and organizing my Scholarship so named "The Consult America Scholarship"
3. Improve my writing
4. Practice waking up early to exercise
5. Relaxing
6. Save some money
7. Lose some weight (hopefully 20 pounds)
8. Become an immunizer
9. Cover the CVS again
10. Work on writing a Book

These are my personal goals that I have set out to accomplish for myself this summer. It's my logic that if my peers are out working and experiencing in real time, I have to do something to show myself diligent.

Which brings me to the article that I just finished writing for Black College Today Magazine, titled "This Summer Inspire to Desire" and with this article I'm trying to really motivate fellow college students to not let summer slip by without doing something positive with their time and really just to remember to always take time to improve.

For my pharmacy students reading this: As I reflect on what I'm writing as I'm writing it. Everyone will tell you a little bit of Everything about pharmacy. And what I will tell you is, many of your peers will do great things, things maybe which even surpass your imagination. Remain passionate! I hate when people say find your niche, so I won't say it, but do what inspires you. Pray and seek God. Ask him what is his plans for your life and offer your talents to him, for his name to get praise and glory. You will be tried and most definitely tested. You'll feel unsure and unworthy! Stay stead fast unremovable and BELIEVE...

Keep Our water safe...

Keep Our water safe...Wait I got that wrong keep our children safe from water.

It's summer, and it's been extremely hot and one of the first things parents tend to do is take their children: to beaches, water parks, or pools. However, lately especially in the Hampton Roads area there have been too many water related accidents and deaths. It's an issue that when I was growing up either wasn't an issue or one that I was unaware of.

I was never afraid of water as a child but I always understood that I couldn't swim. I had swim lessons, I was unsuccessful. My mother never took me to the beach to play in the ocean. She took me to the pool, but never the ocean. If I a child cannot swim, if a person cannot swim then what would urge them to go test an OCEAN out with tides and junk? Doesn't make sense to me. I'm not calling it wrong, I'm just saying it's strange.

At any rate, some of the most beneficial things you can do for your child is to teach them the dangers of playing around water (especially if they don't know how to swim) and enrolling them in swim lessons. It's that simple. If you have children not taking them to the beach to swim in the ocean at night, and checking the tides and not taking them if they're going to be high that day, being attentive when your child is around any body of water is always a good idea.

I've always taken care of children, dating back to when my sister was born, from there I worked in several daycares and even been a private nanny for several families and water safety is always something I was well aware of. Make sure you're talking to your sitters and nannies. Make sure they know CPR, proper water safety and any protocols or plans of action that you would like your sitter to take. For instance, when I nannied for one family I would inform the children we were going to get in the pool, they had to put on their bathing suits, grab the towels and wait for me by the gate to the pool, then they would grab the life jackets, I would fasten the belts, they could then enter the pool counting each step until they reached the bottom. They did this the same exact way every single time they got in the pool. Their parents had a routine in place.

So, teach your churn not to be afraid of the water just be safe with it.

Life is Sour so Stay Sweet HONIES!