Tuesday, December 12, 2006
grandpa's voice
I just called my grandma in Iowa. She was not home but her answering machine picked up. My grandpa's voice is on the answering machine. My grandpa passed away 3 years ago in November. I haven't heard his voice in along time. I was suprised she had not changed the message. I'm glad she didn't.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Christmas comes too soon
I passed my CMA exam and am now a certified medical assistant.
I have worked for 5 months and really enjoy what I do.
I have learned to do IM injections, sort of fun but most scarey. I get sort of panicky when I have to do injections, but I am getting better at it.
We went to Liz and Ben's wedding, it was a very beautiful wedding. At the wedding we sat at the same table as Liz and Matt Carder. It was so GOOD to see them, we miss them so much, not just Matt as a pastor but Matt and Liz as our friends and as really good people, that make our church part of what it is.
The leaves are gone, the trees are mostly bare, and the plants our dead, despite all this our grass is still green! We have a nice carpet of green grass all around our house but that is mostly the only green thing.
Thanksgiving was good, but Thanksgiving break was even better, it was so nice to have a 4 day weekend and spend time with Ryan, set up our tree, talk a long time, stay up late, watch some movies, sleep in late, eat pancakes for breakfast and take walk in the almost 60 degree weather before the sunset.
I was so NOT in the mood for christmas when we started setting up the tree. Ryan had to get the tree out of the storage room by himself and I really didn't want to do all the setup because I didn't feel in the mood at all. We turned on Christmas music and decorated the tree together.
I feel alittle more excited for Christmas, but I still don't want it to come too soon or it will be over, I want to enjoy the getting ready, the fall into winter, shopping and Christmas music first.
Still its too soon,... its 28 days till Christmas..
I have worked for 5 months and really enjoy what I do.
I have learned to do IM injections, sort of fun but most scarey. I get sort of panicky when I have to do injections, but I am getting better at it.
We went to Liz and Ben's wedding, it was a very beautiful wedding. At the wedding we sat at the same table as Liz and Matt Carder. It was so GOOD to see them, we miss them so much, not just Matt as a pastor but Matt and Liz as our friends and as really good people, that make our church part of what it is.
The leaves are gone, the trees are mostly bare, and the plants our dead, despite all this our grass is still green! We have a nice carpet of green grass all around our house but that is mostly the only green thing.
Thanksgiving was good, but Thanksgiving break was even better, it was so nice to have a 4 day weekend and spend time with Ryan, set up our tree, talk a long time, stay up late, watch some movies, sleep in late, eat pancakes for breakfast and take walk in the almost 60 degree weather before the sunset.
I was so NOT in the mood for christmas when we started setting up the tree. Ryan had to get the tree out of the storage room by himself and I really didn't want to do all the setup because I didn't feel in the mood at all. We turned on Christmas music and decorated the tree together.
I feel alittle more excited for Christmas, but I still don't want it to come too soon or it will be over, I want to enjoy the getting ready, the fall into winter, shopping and Christmas music first.
Still its too soon,... its 28 days till Christmas..
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
summer into fall
Its been a few months since I last posted anything.
I have been working hard at my new job, trying to learn as much as I can, do my best, and show them I can do it ( and maybe prove to myself that I can do this) I feel like that I have adjusted much quicker than I first thought I would. My first two weeks on the job were SO overwhelming, stressful and frustrating. I couldn't remember alot things and felt like there was so much to learn and remember it would take me a year to just be comfortable. I still learn something new each day but already I feel comfortable with most things at work. I am usually assigned to and helping one of the nurse practitioners or the midwife everyday. I really like it, and the time usually goes fast. I feel like I haven't had near as much time to get things done at home since I started working but Ryan has helped out immensly. Not many husbands would do that. He will start dinner if he knows what we are having, pretty much he always does the laundry and we both cooperate to clean the house every now and then.
I have not found out if I have passed my certification exam yet. They said it would take 12 weeks before we'd know (which I think is a rediculous amount of time). I hope like crazy that I passed! I guess I'll know soon enough.
I have been taking note of the seasons and the changes during the summer. We finished landscaping around the house and I have enjoyed watching my flowers and plants come into bloom. The corn is tall and has brown tassles now, and I am noticing the corn stalks are turning brown. Small hints of fall are here. Its Aug 30th and summer is not officially over but there have been many small yellow leaves on the ground as well as hints of color on some of the bushes and trees. Its sad in a way yet exciting to see changes of each season. I feel like somehow I have been more aware of the different things in nature, enjoyed nature more this summer. The hints of green in the spring, the full green of the trees and grass in June and July and now the darker green/brown of the trees with hints of yellow on a few leaves here and there. The tassles of the corn, the earlier evenings, the smell of the crisp morning air. The black and white cows trying to push and shove for a space under the shade of a large tree, the old rusty windmill, smell in the woods after it rains. I LOVE noticing the sites, sounds and smells of nature. I only wish that I could soak up more of nature and enjoy all the time. But I guess thats what makes me savor it now is that I know it changes so quickly and I can't enjoy it all the time.
The evenings end way to soon when you work...you have supper, get ready for work the next day, maybe clean alittle, or watch some tv, then go to bed and before you know it you're starting all over. I dont know how people work full time and raise kids. Well... its off to get ready for work and start all over...
I have been working hard at my new job, trying to learn as much as I can, do my best, and show them I can do it ( and maybe prove to myself that I can do this) I feel like that I have adjusted much quicker than I first thought I would. My first two weeks on the job were SO overwhelming, stressful and frustrating. I couldn't remember alot things and felt like there was so much to learn and remember it would take me a year to just be comfortable. I still learn something new each day but already I feel comfortable with most things at work. I am usually assigned to and helping one of the nurse practitioners or the midwife everyday. I really like it, and the time usually goes fast. I feel like I haven't had near as much time to get things done at home since I started working but Ryan has helped out immensly. Not many husbands would do that. He will start dinner if he knows what we are having, pretty much he always does the laundry and we both cooperate to clean the house every now and then.
I have not found out if I have passed my certification exam yet. They said it would take 12 weeks before we'd know (which I think is a rediculous amount of time). I hope like crazy that I passed! I guess I'll know soon enough.
I have been taking note of the seasons and the changes during the summer. We finished landscaping around the house and I have enjoyed watching my flowers and plants come into bloom. The corn is tall and has brown tassles now, and I am noticing the corn stalks are turning brown. Small hints of fall are here. Its Aug 30th and summer is not officially over but there have been many small yellow leaves on the ground as well as hints of color on some of the bushes and trees. Its sad in a way yet exciting to see changes of each season. I feel like somehow I have been more aware of the different things in nature, enjoyed nature more this summer. The hints of green in the spring, the full green of the trees and grass in June and July and now the darker green/brown of the trees with hints of yellow on a few leaves here and there. The tassles of the corn, the earlier evenings, the smell of the crisp morning air. The black and white cows trying to push and shove for a space under the shade of a large tree, the old rusty windmill, smell in the woods after it rains. I LOVE noticing the sites, sounds and smells of nature. I only wish that I could soak up more of nature and enjoy all the time. But I guess thats what makes me savor it now is that I know it changes so quickly and I can't enjoy it all the time.
The evenings end way to soon when you work...you have supper, get ready for work the next day, maybe clean alittle, or watch some tv, then go to bed and before you know it you're starting all over. I dont know how people work full time and raise kids. Well... its off to get ready for work and start all over...
Sunday, June 18, 2006
new phase....
I have been meaning to post this for a while now.. I am entering a new phase in life. I have full time job now, that I am starting the 20th of this month. Its kind of scary because I will actually be doing what I have been studying to do for quite a while now. I will be a medical assistant at a women's clinic, an OB/GYN office. The people seem really nice and the office is really nice. I know I will do good, as always, and everyone keeps saying I will do fine, but its still scary to know its for real... hoping that I do things right, don't mess up and look stupid or look like I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want to look like I learned nothing in college. I am also studying to pass my CMA exam this coming Saturday. I will get a raise if I become certified, also I want to be certified, it seems silly to take the test and not pass after all I put into school. So it feels like alot of pressure.
I am also not sure I "want" to adjust to life as a full time worker!!! I am so used to the college scedule of classes and varied work times and being able to get up when I want (depending on the semester) that to me it seems so strict and rigid to get up EVERY morning at the same time and work till 5 or 6 every day. Sometimes I feel I am giving up alot, free afternoons, late mornings, etc. And maybe in a way I am but its not really that bad. During my externships it was tough at first but I got used to it, and this time because it is for real, its for real, but I also won't have to constantly be studying for a test or an assignment. The evenings and weekends will be mine, not schools. I will be SOOOO relieved once I take my CMA exam and pass. Its a 4 hour 300 question test over almost everything I have studied.
Tomorrow is my 2 year anniversary with Ryan. It doesn't seem like we've been married 2 years. In some ways, to me, it seems longer, while at the same time it seems like we were just getting married! So much has happened since then. I am glad I am married to such a wonderful man that loves me so much. I know he drives me crazy sometimes, but more than anything I would miss him so much if he was not in my life. My life has changed for the better with him in it. I feel like I have a partner in life, and no matter what happens, that as long as we have each things will be ok. All my life I longed for this person, that would understand me and that I could talk with and share my heart with, and in Ryan, I know completely that I have found that.
This year is sort of a year of change I think. As I start my new full-time job, Ryan and I will be both working. I have a new nephew, that is a big change for my sister, and my family :) My father is trying to work toward a new career. My mother and sister are working toward building a business of massage therapy. Hopefully, in the future, after working for a few years maybe Ryan and I can start a family of our own...
So... this is a new phase... of life...
I am also not sure I "want" to adjust to life as a full time worker!!! I am so used to the college scedule of classes and varied work times and being able to get up when I want (depending on the semester) that to me it seems so strict and rigid to get up EVERY morning at the same time and work till 5 or 6 every day. Sometimes I feel I am giving up alot, free afternoons, late mornings, etc. And maybe in a way I am but its not really that bad. During my externships it was tough at first but I got used to it, and this time because it is for real, its for real, but I also won't have to constantly be studying for a test or an assignment. The evenings and weekends will be mine, not schools. I will be SOOOO relieved once I take my CMA exam and pass. Its a 4 hour 300 question test over almost everything I have studied.
Tomorrow is my 2 year anniversary with Ryan. It doesn't seem like we've been married 2 years. In some ways, to me, it seems longer, while at the same time it seems like we were just getting married! So much has happened since then. I am glad I am married to such a wonderful man that loves me so much. I know he drives me crazy sometimes, but more than anything I would miss him so much if he was not in my life. My life has changed for the better with him in it. I feel like I have a partner in life, and no matter what happens, that as long as we have each things will be ok. All my life I longed for this person, that would understand me and that I could talk with and share my heart with, and in Ryan, I know completely that I have found that.
This year is sort of a year of change I think. As I start my new full-time job, Ryan and I will be both working. I have a new nephew, that is a big change for my sister, and my family :) My father is trying to work toward a new career. My mother and sister are working toward building a business of massage therapy. Hopefully, in the future, after working for a few years maybe Ryan and I can start a family of our own...
So... this is a new phase... of life...
Friday, May 12, 2006
happy graduation!!!
May 11, 2006 I graduated at Emen's Auditorium from Ivy Tech Community College.
Next to my wedding day it was probably was one of the most memorable days of my life. Since I was homeschooled I didn't really have the traditional graduation and dind't know what it was like to walk across the stage and be really nervous but excited at the same time.
It was a really neat experience, the gathering in the hall in alphabetical order and waiting for almost an hour with hundreds of other girls and guys in black caps and gowns, people complaining how their caps pinched their heads or where so loose they used 12 bobby pins to keep them in place, walking down the aisle to the stage and seeing my family smiling at me and looking very proud (I almost slowed the lined down waving to them!!), then sitting for L-O-N-G time waiting for my turn to walk across the stage, finally getting to the stairs of the stage and knowing my turn was next, with my heart pounding so hard..., then walking across the stage trying not to look at the thousands of people filling the auditorium, smiling for the photographer while I shook Dr Domiko's hand, shaking a line of important people's hands who congratulated me, then seeing my husband right after I got off stage and reaching out to touch his hand, then getting to sit back and feel releaved that I didn't have to be nervous anymore and realizing it all went WAY too fast, then walking out of the auditorium with hundreds of class mates only to realize that it was mass CAOS outside and it would be like finding a needle in a haystack to try and find anyone I knew... Standing on the cement ledge feeling lost looking for at least one member of my family, then finally finding my husband!!, then sitting for like 20 minutes in the parking garage waiting for traffic to move because we were at the top of the garage!!! yikes, then seeing my family at my house for concannons cake and icecream, opening gifts, playing my graduation piano for my family, telling them all goodbye at the end of the night, realizing that all the most important parts of the night went WAY too fast and the boring parts (like waiting for hundreds of other students to walk ) went way to SLOW, then going to bed holding my husbands hand and feeling happy...
So that was my graduation day.. I graduated with honors with an Associate in Applied Science degree as a Medical Assistant.
I know I couldn't have done it without my family's support, they have really been there for me throughout it all. I owe it to them and God.
Next to my wedding day it was probably was one of the most memorable days of my life. Since I was homeschooled I didn't really have the traditional graduation and dind't know what it was like to walk across the stage and be really nervous but excited at the same time.
It was a really neat experience, the gathering in the hall in alphabetical order and waiting for almost an hour with hundreds of other girls and guys in black caps and gowns, people complaining how their caps pinched their heads or where so loose they used 12 bobby pins to keep them in place, walking down the aisle to the stage and seeing my family smiling at me and looking very proud (I almost slowed the lined down waving to them!!), then sitting for L-O-N-G time waiting for my turn to walk across the stage, finally getting to the stairs of the stage and knowing my turn was next, with my heart pounding so hard..., then walking across the stage trying not to look at the thousands of people filling the auditorium, smiling for the photographer while I shook Dr Domiko's hand, shaking a line of important people's hands who congratulated me, then seeing my husband right after I got off stage and reaching out to touch his hand, then getting to sit back and feel releaved that I didn't have to be nervous anymore and realizing it all went WAY too fast, then walking out of the auditorium with hundreds of class mates only to realize that it was mass CAOS outside and it would be like finding a needle in a haystack to try and find anyone I knew... Standing on the cement ledge feeling lost looking for at least one member of my family, then finally finding my husband!!, then sitting for like 20 minutes in the parking garage waiting for traffic to move because we were at the top of the garage!!! yikes, then seeing my family at my house for concannons cake and icecream, opening gifts, playing my graduation piano for my family, telling them all goodbye at the end of the night, realizing that all the most important parts of the night went WAY too fast and the boring parts (like waiting for hundreds of other students to walk ) went way to SLOW, then going to bed holding my husbands hand and feeling happy...
So that was my graduation day.. I graduated with honors with an Associate in Applied Science degree as a Medical Assistant.
I know I couldn't have done it without my family's support, they have really been there for me throughout it all. I owe it to them and God.
Monday, May 01, 2006
a joyous day....
Thursday morning at 3:56 am a precious little boy was born. He has dark hair and his mommy's nose, and big feet. His name is Ethan Nathanael Josiah
He is my new nephew, which makes me Aunt Natalie! I am taking my job as Aunt very seriously. I know I want to be close to my nephew and be a big part of his life unlike alot of my aunts and uncles.
Grandpa and Grandma Henry (I can call them that now, even though they are my parents) are so proud, especially Grandpa I think... :)
Jessica and baby Ethan are doing great. Probably still a little tired, but doing well.
It seems spring has is fully here now and summer is starting to sneak in. I was really enjoying all the trees and blooms and now most of the flowering trees are almost done blooming. Our woods is FULL of green. You used to be able to see our house from the highway but not anymore.
I will post a picture of a beautiful pink flowering tree in our woods. Its stuck back among about 10 thorn trees on a hill. I have no idea what kind it is, but its beautiful.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
in the back woods.....
I decided to start a blog here because I feel like I can't completely share the blog I have on journal space. I want to be able to get to know other bloggers that go to my church and I thought this might be another way to do that. I have never really been that good at blogging, journaling etc. I tend to write down to much random stuff I do instead of things I am pondering or things that are actually interesting....
If you are wondinger what "brown house in the big woods" means, its sort of a spin off of a book title I read when I was younger, "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I always like those stories, and now finally I have my own house in the big woods. Only I can't exactly say "little house", it would have to be "Big house in the Big woods" and that just didn't have the same ring to it. So since my house is brown I decided to go with that.
We are trying to start up some landscaping. We have sooo many plans for our home and area that it seems like it will take forever. When you go up our long winding drive there is a small trickling stream on one side that will one day trickle over rocks and make little water falls. On the other side of the drive is a big hill that goes up to the house. We are clearing out the underbrush, dead trees and mess to make it look more inviting. Then around the house we want to landscape and build a deck. All of this is just dreams, but that is what my husband and I are spending our evenings and weekends planning right now since the weather is warm.
I LOVE spring! I have started noting each new little thing that appears during spring. I started this last year. I note the first day I see green in our woods. This is always on the small underbrush among the trees. About a week later, the tree leaves start budding. This year the green underbrush started coming out on April 1st, the day after our first really warm day. April 13th is when the leaf buds started emerging.
We have a few red buds mixed in our woods, precisely about 5 or 6. They add this purple touch to the emerging leaf colors.
Enough rambling.....
I hope this blog will be the start of something interesting....
If you are wondinger what "brown house in the big woods" means, its sort of a spin off of a book title I read when I was younger, "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I always like those stories, and now finally I have my own house in the big woods. Only I can't exactly say "little house", it would have to be "Big house in the Big woods" and that just didn't have the same ring to it. So since my house is brown I decided to go with that.
We are trying to start up some landscaping. We have sooo many plans for our home and area that it seems like it will take forever. When you go up our long winding drive there is a small trickling stream on one side that will one day trickle over rocks and make little water falls. On the other side of the drive is a big hill that goes up to the house. We are clearing out the underbrush, dead trees and mess to make it look more inviting. Then around the house we want to landscape and build a deck. All of this is just dreams, but that is what my husband and I are spending our evenings and weekends planning right now since the weather is warm.
I LOVE spring! I have started noting each new little thing that appears during spring. I started this last year. I note the first day I see green in our woods. This is always on the small underbrush among the trees. About a week later, the tree leaves start budding. This year the green underbrush started coming out on April 1st, the day after our first really warm day. April 13th is when the leaf buds started emerging.
We have a few red buds mixed in our woods, precisely about 5 or 6. They add this purple touch to the emerging leaf colors.
Enough rambling.....
I hope this blog will be the start of something interesting....
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