new start

I tend to bottle things up inside. Nasty little habit of mine. Hence the start of FIVE blogs since 2004, all abandoned. I started a blog when I stumbled on Tertia's while searching for gonal-f info back in '04. She and the vagina posse were my daily lifelines. So, inspired by them, I started a blog, but it became to difficult to write about what I felt during infertility and then I didn't know what to write about when I came out the other side with a baby.

Here I am starting again. I made it though IF and have two beautiful children, a three year old son and a two year old daughter. I lost my job of 10 years due to the bad economy last year and decided to try something new. I'm now in nursing school about to start my clinical rotations in January. I chose nursing for many reasons. My grandmother was a nurse and loved her job. I had so many wonderful caring nurses that were amazing during all my IF crap. I also had some not so nice nurses, but the good outweigh the bad tenfold. I want a job with some emotional fulfillment. My last job was about a 1 on a scale of 10 for that. Losing a great job with benefits was a huge blow to our family and I want to try to prevent that in the future. I hope nursing will give me that recession-proof career I need. And lastly, I think nursing will give me some flexibility to spend more time with my amazing kids and husband.

On top of all of this, I started sewing in earnest a few years ago and now I sew for others. I have a small line of kids clothing that I've made and am madly sewing for a big Christmas arts and crafts fair coming up in November.