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.