Just writing to look like I am doing something

Moving! I am so excited and so ready to be back in T

exas. Things are still extremely up in the air....

TEXAS!! TEXAS!! TEXAS!!

I HAVE A NURSE PRACTITIONER JOB!!!

I am so excited my job search is finally fraking over. I still catc

h myself looking for jobs, writing the cover letter, but I get over it and don't send it. Since July of last year, I have been consumed in finding a job and living with the fear that SC nursing and I do not get along well at all. Not at all. So, we are moving to a state that treats its nurses so much better. Score times a bunch.

I find it interesting when I say I hate Charleston people argue that opinion with me. It is an opinion. I hate Charleston as a whole. The food is good, yes, but you know what I like cooking at home just as much. There are beaches, sure, but we go maybe 3-4 times a year because it is a production with a child and I am not a fan of bath-tub warm ocean water. There are pretty homes, but those are in isolated areas of the wealthy. Charleston is prejudiced, dirty, stuck holding on to Hugo, slavery, and when good ole' boys were men.

I hate Charleston, let me hate Charleston.

Mainly I am excited for Conor. It is sad that Beany and Joe won't be a quick drive south, but I wouldn't be surprised if they move. We will be a little further away from Susi and Rob, but for some reason I think the drive would be easier to Texas (New Orleans is a good stop).

As long as we have strawberries or something equally as fun to pick, Conor will be great. There are so many amazing day-trips for families in Texas: Zilker park, San Antonio zoo, THE ALAMO, children's museums in Austin and Waco, caverns, Schlitter

bahn, railways...

Plus, everyone I met talked about what a great area it was to raise kids. Unfortunately, a sentiment I have not heard in Charleston.

Texas

Texas

This girl is coming home

3-4 years ago, I would have never wanted to move back. I actually liked the physical Charleston at one point in time. Now, I don't. Stephen and I always reminisced on the things we loved about Texas: bluebonnets, sunsets, genuine hospitality, Dublin Dr. Pepper, cows, oil rigs, trucks...the list could go on and on truthfully.

So now after a whirlwind week we are not ending up where we thought, and I am super happy but definitely nervous. To ease my nerves I have decided to create my FIVE YEAR PLAN so I can go back and laugh my arse off, much like my list for my 30th year of life.

The Plan

• Pursue my Acute Care Nurse Practitioner post-masters certificate at UTA with clinicals done at S&W (which is a level-one trauma center)
• Learn everything I can about GI medicine in the inpatient and outpatient population
• Move either to Austin or Dallas and pursue employment as an FNP-C ACNP-BC in an emergency room
• Rekindle the happy with husband. This should be easy when we both don't hate where we live and get grumpy at the smallest things
• End our lawsuit and purchase our "first home"
• Have another sweet baby and not gain SO MUCH WEIGHT with the pregnancy (a girl can dream of a cute baby belly)
• Find the best BBQ place in Texas
• Participate in a Chili cook-off (maybe even Terlingua??)
• Join team-in-training and run a full marathon

My little Conor may not be Texan, but the republic will forgive him when they see those baby blues and look at his heritage.

How'd you get there mommy.

He's cute. He's trouble.

He squeaks. He loves trains. He reads books from memory. He sings teapot really well.

His girlfriend's name is Abbie and she is adorable as well.

He thinks storage sheds are farms and that elephants and piggies live on farms. He thinks bedtime is the end of the world.

He is always prepared for rain with his yellow rainboots.

Wow, this kid keeps me smiling day and night. He has his moments of meltdown but overall he is the greatest. Now if we could just potty train.