It's been about six years. A lot has happened. I did get off orientation, and Super Husband (lol) did get selected. We moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. I moved into the Emergency Department, and then into a Family Practice. We bought a beautiful house. SH got deployed again nine months after we arrived. He was promoted once he returned. We were settled and mostly happy - at least more happy than unhappy and for once I did not want to move, so of course we came down on orders. Off to Germany we went. Finding work here was insanely difficult, but I was (so thankfully!) employed by the six month mark in a specialty clinic.
Since being overseas we have traveled to London (and saw U2 perform - checking off a bucket list item I've had since the 8th grade), all over Scotland, Dublin and Ireland coast-to-coast, Paris and various other parts of Northern & Eastern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the all over the Netherlands (I took SH to see Disturbed and A7 in Amsterdam for Valentine's Day this year), Berlin, Mainz, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Garmisch, Austria (New Years 2016/2017 with the Besties!), Italy from the Northern parts of the Prosecco region to Venice to Rome and back again), Poland, and then there have been places that SH has gone that I've missed.
My daughter is now 18 and my son 17. She starts college in a few months and he will be a junior in high school. Time. Flies. Reading those posts from 2011 made me laugh a little. I had forgotten about some of those things. I will say this - I freakin' love having older/adult children. They are awesome! I am so lucky!
Annnd... next month we move back to North Carolina! We have a contract on an amazing house that I am totally in love with and cannot wait to move into, and I will be starting a job at the end of the month at a local hospital in the Interventional Radiology Department and I am SUPER excited (and a little nervous) about that! The manager just seemed to really have the employees best interest at heart when she talked about her team and it sounds like she really advocates for her nurses. It's a specialty, but it still has a high emphasis on nursing skills and I hope that I am really able to dive in and get good at my job.
That's a super quick, super brief catch-up on the last seven years.
Let's see how long it takes for me to write the next post.
A photo or two or four from our travels:
Omaha Beach in the morning. Memorial Day weekend 2017
The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. September 2016
Burg Eltz, Germany. April 2017
Paris. July 2017
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