I have thought this after each posting and never wanted to post multiple posts in the same day so I'll do this now. My name is Rachel, my husband who I've referred to as Sailor Man up to this point his name is Matt ( I will call him Jordan though because it's his middle name and well, that's just what I call him), our sweet little B is named Braiden. He's going on 9 months old and steals my heart in the most unimaginable ways each and every day.
Jordan is a Sailor in the US Navy and Braiden was born while he was on his first deployment. The time apart was difficult but being pregnant really helped me get through that time. I knew stressing and worrying wasn't good for our sweet baby so I just didn't. I made the best of my time alone and spent as much with family back home and my best friend here in California as I could. I graduated High School in the top of my class and then went on a full ride scholarship to college into the states most sought after nursing program with hopes and dreams to finish my bachelors in 4 years work as an RN for 1-2 years an then continue on to get my masters and become a CRNA. College and high school were like 2 different worlds. I had no structure. HS was so easy and I never had to study. College I needed to study and didn't know how. I was never a partier, I didn't drink, the most I did was stay up too late watching stupid television. I made it into the nursing program by the skin of my teeth and from then on out I had my first doses of C and D grades. The Ds classified as failing and then I began to say goodbye to friends I started nursing school with as they advanced on an I was left behind to do the class over again. I became very discouraged but I pushed on, each semester saying I would do better. I would for a while and then I would get discouraged again as an exam came and went with a sub par grade. Fast forward a while and Jordan and I get married and he joins the Navy soon after. We move away in the summer of my Junior year of college. It would take 2 more years to get my bachelors due to the failing classes so I would in no way have my husband all the way across the country without me for that amount of time. I find out a lot of my credits wouldn't transfer so that puts me back farther once we get out here. I begin online classes to start with and then find out I'm pregnant and while I could have kept going, I didn't want anything to take precedence over the studying I would have to do and the last little bit of time I had left with my husband before he deployed. So I stopped with one class.
Long story short, that's why I'm a stay at home mommy. :) One day I'll go back to school and earn a degree in something. Each passing day I'm still unsure of what I really want to do. It changes every day, I weigh pros and cons of each dream and never settle. I don't have to right now so I won't. I'll keep dreaming and when there is one dream that I want to make a reality, I'll have my career choice. Right now, I'm working for an 8 month old and wouldn't have life any other way.
That's a little about me, more will come out over time. If you happen to stumble upon my little blog and have a question, I'm all for answering questions :)
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