Thanks for your patience...

I apologize about the long wait, I have been extremely busy these past couple of weeks, helping every person I know with this, that or the other thing.
I love to help people, and it is nearly impossible for me to turn someone down in a time of need... but I really need start saying "No" to people... Life would be much less busy, and I would have some "me time" for sure! But, alas, I do not have that word in my vocabulary so I have been cleaning houses, hosting family from out of town, working 7 days a week (at two jobs) AND trying to maintain my home/parenting duties. Oy!

Time to throw this out here, or I might not ever get to it!

As I mentioned in my last post,  a few weekends ago I had a life changing experience, which has helped me figure out my career ambition. Here's the short version:

Ryan and I went to a friend's house to hang out, and within an hour of being there, her baby started seizing.

While all the adults ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, I called 911. 

Once the paramedics arrived and decided that baby needed the ER, I followed the ambulance to the hospital.  Ryan, dad and son stayed at the house.

Once at the ER, the baby's condition worsened and she was very unstable for a few hours.

I was in the ER with mom & baby for 6 hours (until they were medevaced to Anchorage), and in that time I observed every procedure (which included; blood draws, spinal tap, seizures, CT scan, IV's, and even intubation), comforted the family, and a few times I even helped the medical team when it was needed.  

That night being in the ER, being a part of the team saving this sweet little baby's life stirred something inside me... opened my eyes to what I hadn't ever considered once before.

I want to be an ER nurse. 

All around me was chaos, but I have never in my life felt so at peace, so enthralled, so excited by any other experience.

I shared this with my mom (who is a RN at our hospital), one of the pediatricians who was at the ER that night (she is a very close family friend, and Braeden's doc!), and my family. They all support this decision 110%

I have registered for some classes at UAS and will start my journey on Jan. 17th!

Wish me luck!

P.S. Mom and baby went to Anchorage, spent 5 days getting tests, and came back home all in one piece :) Let's all believe this was a fluke event and won't happen again!