hey - just a quick note.
tomorrow i will get to admit my first own patient to home health and will be their primary nurse.

we're getting lots of crazy rain, big storms, warm days then waking up to a little ground covering of snow! craziness!

i started painting my kitchen last night and was super excited about the color . . . until i saw it on the wall! it looked like neon green! now i would have loved that color, in fact i would have worn it every day when i was in grade school! ha. but not quite what i was going for. so..... i made a color i really like mixing it with a little of one of our grays. sounds weird, but we'll see.

jordan's busy farming and being all tan and sun burned already! he likes holding his arm up to mine. the other night, he was gathering the eggs in grampa's chicken house and this skunk walked in! so he shot it in the head...... then it sprayed and left the chicken house in an awful stench! shooooeeeee!

time for bed. night night!

paint, paint, paint, paint. . .

I LOVE THESE KIDS!

just a quick update. on sunday, the lady living in the place we bought called and said they were heading out and needed to give us the keys! ha! we had no idea when she was leaving! so we have our little house! and i have most of my paint picked out for every single wall to be covered! my mom is here to help me paint all day today and i think all day tomorrow! we should be able to get a lot done. the thing is - we have to prime i think everything!
we also picked out carpeting and flooring as it is all 20-something years old!!! lots of furniture and stuff that was left in the house that we need to take care of. it will be fun to see the transformation into "our" home. we'll be taking lots of pictures so i'll post them sometime when this is all finished! hope you all have a great weekend!

happy belated birthday to my fabulous sister and friend, naomi! her birthday was on the 16th!

home health and hospice

sorry its been a while. i started orienting to my new job last wed and have been working since (besides the weekend) i'll be orienting about 3 days a week, pretty much until i feel ready to be on my own. it has been great! i work with some amazing people and they all LOVE their jobs! they're so encouraging and helpful. the orientation isn't very organized..... but its home health and hospice so i just go with the other nurses and experience everything they do. some of the hospice stuff is hard, but you get so close to the families and they really grow to love and trust you! and with the home health, i've seen all kinds of patients from a week old baby with spina bifida, to old men with diabetes and foot wounds with wound vacs on. i've actually seen a lot of those wound vacs and did a whole wound vac dressing change on my own yesterday. it'll take a little while to get used to all the paperwork and the different forms. but this is amazing compared to orienting to bryan - the hospital. of course i was just out of college and orienting to all of nursing there, besides the fact it was so fast-paced and stressful. jordan is so excited because he sees that this is a great fit for me! so i just keep thanking the Lord. because it was completely all Him! these kind of positions don't come open very often and i happened to be just in time! the Lord is really taking care of us!

we are in a winter storm warning through tomorrow and its snowing like crazy! we're supposed to get 4-8 inches! yesterday after work jordan and i ran into northplatte - got some stuff at menards and stocked up on groceries at walmart! so atleast we have food while we're stuck in this snow storm.
we got paint supplies and looked at the flooring at menards! i think we'll be able start working on our house next week! i can't wait!!!! i'll have to be posting pictures in the next few weeks/month!

ok and guess what - we don't wear scrubs at work! we wear khakis and things like that that are dressy but easy to wash!