Since I am going on a little get-a-way next week, I thought now would be a good time to write...My hubby and I are heading up to Duluth, MN with his parents this Monday until next week Sunday--Totally excited!! Nathan just loves, and I mean LOVES Duluth! He has soooo many things that he wants to see again that hopefully we have enough time to do it all! :) Not only is Duluth just a great place to visit, but it also has a very special place in our hearts. June 26, 2009 was when my "boyfriend" turned into my fiance (and who is now my husband!! :) ) I remember it like it was yesterday...
...He had explained to me that he wanted to go to Duluth to just scope out the area because that was where he wanted to possibly move someday after he completed his teaching degree. Well, I knew that there was no way that my parents would allow for me to travel 7 hours away to just "scope out the area". But, Nathan insisted on asking my parents for their permission by himself. So I agreed. Needless to say, he had something else up his sleeve to ask them. Well, my parents agreed to let us go, and so we were off to Duluth! We had a whole agenda planned during our time there. Our first night was to just go to a baseball game and just start scoping out the area. We ended up walking a pathway around Lake Superior and that's when Nathan sat me down on a bench, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him!! I was the happiest woman in the world and of course I said yes!!
Now we have been married for almost a year already! Wow, time just keeps ticking by...But I can honestly say that this past year has been one of the best years of my life. Nathan is a such a wonderful husband who is always just "there" for me! I truly could not have asked for a better person to spend the rest of my life with! I am totally excited to keep living this journey with him and see what our future has to hold for us!! :)
Friday, July 22, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
We Just Never Know...
Hello All,
So, I am kind of new to this whole "Blogging" your life thing. However, now that school is completely done with, I am hoping that I will be able to have more time to just journal some things that are going on in my life. Speaking of school, boy has that been a lot of stress on me for awhile now! I graduated this past May with my RN degree and had to await the arrival of my RN boards. As graduation was approaching, I was beginning to feel that I had completely chosen the wrong career path for myself...I was beginning to feel more and more unsure on what I had gotten myself into, but I also felt that it was just too late to give up now--I have too much invested into it and would let too many people "down" if I just gave up. So, on May 14th, I walked across that stage to receive my diploma. Well, there is a big transition after school is completed. I mean school is, or should I say, WAS my whole life and that was all there was too it. I had to transition from being in class every day and seeing all my classmates, to just sitting at our apartment and trying to continue on with studying/preparing for boards...I did not pick up many hours at work because I figured that it was a time for me to just focus on school--After all, we were told that we did not complete the program until you had passed the NCLEX exam. Well, sitting at the apartment just became monotonous and made me begin to really start thinking about things like my life in general--What did God truly have planned for me and my life? Was nursing truly a career that I could go to every single day? Maybe a new career path would appear in my future? I had so many thoughts racing through my head that it began to take a toll on me. I was really convincing myself that nursing was not for me and that I should just go back to school. I love math and was really considering to get an Accounting degree or something related to Math. Well, I scheduled boards to be the 14th of July. I prayed every day that God would just help calm my nerves regarding the big exam and that He would show me some kind of sign. If I was truly meant to be a nurse then hopefully I would pass boards, but if I was meant to do something else with my life then I would know based on my board results. Well, as of today, at 8 a.m. this morning, I received my "sign"...I can now proudly say that I am a Registered Nurse! It still scares me to think about the profession overall. But, I fully believe that everything happens for a reason so I feel that I need to give it a chance. I have been truly blessed with a wonderful husband, family, and friends who all had faith in me and supported me til the end! Who knows what my future may hold related to my career path. However, I have learned one valuable lesson this year and that is to take one day at a time. Don't look too far into the future but rather just live in the moment of today. What the future holds is unpredictable, but with God, your family, and friends, all things are possible...and in the end, everything will all work out!! :)
So, I am kind of new to this whole "Blogging" your life thing. However, now that school is completely done with, I am hoping that I will be able to have more time to just journal some things that are going on in my life. Speaking of school, boy has that been a lot of stress on me for awhile now! I graduated this past May with my RN degree and had to await the arrival of my RN boards. As graduation was approaching, I was beginning to feel that I had completely chosen the wrong career path for myself...I was beginning to feel more and more unsure on what I had gotten myself into, but I also felt that it was just too late to give up now--I have too much invested into it and would let too many people "down" if I just gave up. So, on May 14th, I walked across that stage to receive my diploma. Well, there is a big transition after school is completed. I mean school is, or should I say, WAS my whole life and that was all there was too it. I had to transition from being in class every day and seeing all my classmates, to just sitting at our apartment and trying to continue on with studying/preparing for boards...I did not pick up many hours at work because I figured that it was a time for me to just focus on school--After all, we were told that we did not complete the program until you had passed the NCLEX exam. Well, sitting at the apartment just became monotonous and made me begin to really start thinking about things like my life in general--What did God truly have planned for me and my life? Was nursing truly a career that I could go to every single day? Maybe a new career path would appear in my future? I had so many thoughts racing through my head that it began to take a toll on me. I was really convincing myself that nursing was not for me and that I should just go back to school. I love math and was really considering to get an Accounting degree or something related to Math. Well, I scheduled boards to be the 14th of July. I prayed every day that God would just help calm my nerves regarding the big exam and that He would show me some kind of sign. If I was truly meant to be a nurse then hopefully I would pass boards, but if I was meant to do something else with my life then I would know based on my board results. Well, as of today, at 8 a.m. this morning, I received my "sign"...I can now proudly say that I am a Registered Nurse! It still scares me to think about the profession overall. But, I fully believe that everything happens for a reason so I feel that I need to give it a chance. I have been truly blessed with a wonderful husband, family, and friends who all had faith in me and supported me til the end! Who knows what my future may hold related to my career path. However, I have learned one valuable lesson this year and that is to take one day at a time. Don't look too far into the future but rather just live in the moment of today. What the future holds is unpredictable, but with God, your family, and friends, all things are possible...and in the end, everything will all work out!! :)
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