What life has brought us:
I am married to my best friend. We met at church when we were in grade school and our lives didn't connect romantically until the summer of 2004. We went to church camp together and we both developed an interest in tennis. We began playing tennis together every day together (this is not a metaphor for anything else, we were at church camp for goodness sakes!). He had a girlfriend at the time so I ogled him from afar. The weeks after we got back from camp consisted of a lot of lost balls, grunting, and tennis elbow. We were playing tennis for goodness sakes! To be honest, I had no interest in tennis, but I had interest in my tennis partner...He actually really liked tennis! A week or so after we got back from church camp, he broke up with his girlfriend and we were both single...YAY!!! But then he went off to college...BOO!! We kept in touch and long story short we became "official" December 16th 2004, two days after my 18th birthday. I was over the moon! We kissed for the first time and exchanged "I love you"s. I knew I would marry him.We both went to different Universities but after we both graduated we moved in together and got married on October 10, 2009. It was such a beautiful day! We honeymooned in Maine and bought a puppy!
We bought a house for our dog in 2010...We just happen to live in it as well. We have bought another dog (Jane) and two cats along the way. I work as an Psychiatric Registered Nurse at a teaching hospital and my husband works as a Medical Laboratory Scientist at a not for profit blood collection/distribution facility.
We have been very blessed, and continue to be blessed.
What life is bringing us:
This is the hard part of the blog...the part where I talk about the not so fuzzy rainbow part of our lives. My husband and I are going through a period in our lives that we never envisioned we would have to go through. We envisioned being married for two years and then beginning to start a family, after our family is started then I would go back to school for my nurse practitioner and live happily ever after. Life doesn't always go as planned.About a year and a half ago we set a date when we would try to start a family. I was so excited and envisioned getting pregnant the first or second month and then I would be able to apply to nurse practitioner school between kids. A year later we are still waiting for me to get pregnant so we could start our family. We knew in our heads that it could take a healthy person a year to get pregnant, but in our hearts we were hoping for it to happen in the first few months. I won't go into details about what problems I am having but in January we got a referral to an RE ( Reproductive Endocrinologist) by my OB/GYN. We met with Dr. P (RE) in the beginning of January and I was so incredibly nervous! I pictured him sitting us down and telling us that I was barren and could never have children...EVER!! This did not happen (Thank God!!). He was very optomistic. He ran some tests on both of us and so far everything is normal. He did recommend Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) for us, as well as medication. Dr. P is very optimistic that this will work (maybe not the first or even 3rd time..but eventually). Our plan is to start treatments in April, after I get back from a trip to Europe in March and after we can save up $$. The sad thing about insurance is that it doesn't cover fertility treatment. Everything is out of pocket. This particular issues makes me extremely bitter, sad, upset, other appropriate adjectives. I really don't want to get into why it makes me so bitter because I don't want to turn off readers in the first post...maybe the 3rd post...maybe.
So this is the serious thing that is happening now, and this is probably what this blog will mostly be about. I also got tired of waiting for life to happen so I decided to apply to graduate school. I will find out in March if I have been accepted into the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program.
I'm hoping to put in some humor too because I can be a pretty silly lady.
