Nick and I had a beautiful wedding and everything went great... I finished summer school a couple weeks ago, and now we're FINALLY on our long-awaited honeymoon trip (more about that in a minute)! And get this... there aren't just 2 of us traveling... there are 3 of us: We have a baby on board!!!! ALREADY! We both had talked about it and thought we would wait a little while to start a family but I guess God had other plans. lol

Now, about our honeymoon trip: We left Jeffersonville about 2am and arrived in Ocala, FL (where we chose to stop for the night) about 2:30pm today. Tomorrow, we will travel the few hours left to Miami, FL, where we will stay for a couple nights. After that, we board our cruise (our first one!) and will be vising Grand Turk and 2 places in the Bahamas. Next week, we have plans to head from FL to VA (about a 16 hour drive) where we will be meeting up with my family at Virginia Beach! We're also going to travel a few more hours up north to see my dad's side of the family and then Nick and I have plans to visit Washington DC one day. I am sooo excited that we're finally taking our honeymoon!

I'm finally on spring break from school so I plan on doing lots of wedding planning this week! Things are going well and except for the list that is still growing I have all the invitations ready to go out as soon as I get stamps :) Nick and I will be starting pre-marital counseling soon because we have to go through 6 sessions before the wedding and there are only about 10 weeks left!

I have news to share since I last wrote... Nick & I are engaged! I am so excited to be starting our lives together and I pray that I can be the kind of wife he needs. I find it hard to believe that I'm so lucky to have found a man like Nick. I'm the future Mrs Brewer and I can't wait :)

Naturally, wedding planning has taken over every spare moment of my time (although that's not much with school being so crazy), but it's so much fun that I don't mind. We're planning on getting married in May of this year so I know I don't have much time to get everything done.

As for nursing school, I'm finally accepting that a B is okay once in a while. haha I want to continue making straight A's but I don't see that happening this semester. The good thing about being okay with less than perfect grades is that I'm not nearly as stressed out as I was last semester.

I'll update more later... for now, I have papers to write and tests to study for.

I've been thinking more & more about how I can actually put my nursing skills to work and do what I've always wanted to do (work in the medical field) while still being a stay at home mom if my future husband and I decide to have children early in life. I'm really hoping I can either work only weekends or work PRN... or be a work-at-home nurse answering calls for "call-a-nurse". So far this semester I'm really excited to see what lies ahead and I'm really excited to continue in the nursing program. But at the same time, I'm already getting pretty overwhelmed with my school work and we're only just beginning the 2nd week of classes. I just have so many classes to keep up with and so many assignments due in each one, and nearly always about the same time (talking about due dates) too. I've definitely been doing some heavy praying about how I can be a stay at home mom and still be a nurse. I really want to do both, but my number one prayer is that my future husband and I are in such a position that I can stay home with our children. It means so much to me. I want to be the one raising my own kids, not some day care worker, or even a grandparent. I could go on and on with my reasons why it makes sense to me but I won't... I have homework to do! lol

Lord: I know we go through this every day but please give me the knowledge as to why I actually wanted to go to nursing school.
Lord, give me the strength to make it through those boring three hour lectures without falling asleep.
Lord, please give me the patience to make it through twelve hour clinicals with instructors that can’t just give you the right answer and on the same note, give the nurses the ability to remember what it was like to be a student and give us just a little more respect.
Lord, give me the endurance to read all the assigned readings and be able to remember it when I am taking a test with four right answers.
Lord, give my family and friends the ability to realize I really am on the edge of insanity.
Finally, Lord, give me the vision to see that one day I will be a real nurse and I will never have to wear this ugly uniform again.

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