Some battles we win, some we lose.

Finally after 4 years of working midnights (7p-7a) I finally get to get rid of the black out curtains and get some sheers! Its so wonderful to wake up with the sun and feel like a totally normal person! Well, after 4 trips to Target and 1 trip to Meijer I finally found the perfect combination of sheers, and not so sheer! They look great!! I am loving seeing the light!! :-)



Holy hotness! This 90+ degree days have been dreadful! So Adam decided to till the yard up and lay down new grass. We had valleys, holes, rocks and just a complete mess of a "yard". So this was an excellent idea!! His plan: Till the yard up on Tuesday, Lay sod and get sidewalk in on Monday June 13th. Right now the current standings are Adam 0:Yard 3. Here are the current pictures, its status is to be continued!!



Well as some of you may know I am going to be starting a new job in the upcoming weeks. I am still staying full time at Riley! However, I am just in the beginning of my career and I want to see what other opportunities are out there. So I am going to be working with a staffing company and work one day a week in the Pediatric Intensive Care unit at Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital at St. Vincent in Carmel, IN. I am very excited about this opportunity. No matter where my path leads Riley will always hold a special place in my heart!!




Grad school update: Currently I am in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at IUPUI. This program will take me 3 years to complete. I am in a 500 level statistics course right now that is kicking my butt. I have decided that the PNP route may not have been my best decision for our future because it will limit me to only being able to care for children. So in August I plan to apply for the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Purdue Calumet. No, we will not be moving home, it is completely online. The FNP will give me the flexibility to care for children and adults. I can work in a PICU or in a clinic. If you are wondering what is the point of becoming a nurse practitioner why don't you just become a doctor? A nurse practitioner has a masters degree in nursing, and can write prescriptions, and function like a doctor (with the appropriate physician approved guidelines). However, a nurse practitioner will never make as much as a doctor but it is 3 years of school instead of 8.

This was a long post! Have a happy weekend,
Love,
Meg & Adam