Carpet, carpet, carpet. The other day Jeff ripped out the carpet in the upstairs bedrooms. Yes it was gross and stained... what I call mystery stains... they are very bad, especially when you come home from work with a mystery stain... just think about it! Anyways the carpet is gone but now I need something else to go there which is why I had to go carpet shopping today. I know very little about the carpet world and am afraid I"ll get hosed. I found one that I like but need the Jeff approval before I buy and I suppose the bank account approval as well. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully we do it soon so that we can move into afinished room and start on our bedroom! I'm tired of sleeping in a lilac purple with yellow wallpaper room. What are people thinking sometimes?!?!

ON a different and rather grosser note.... I saw the biggest poop ever today! My job is ridiculous.

Hey all, I know ... I've been a pathetic blogger lately. But honestly nothing really exciting has happened. The last week has been fairly boring and has been filled with work, work, work. I'm doing a crazy amount of nights (which are nothing but boring and my patients keep me on my toes!!) but nights leave me drained and I don't feel like doing much else other than sleep. I've been staying at my parents to save on gas and because I don't trust myself driving after no sleep. So I've been missing Jeff like crazy especially since he's been at camp councelling for the week. I'm amazed that I miss him like I do and he's pretty much all I think about. He truely is my best friend and I miss being able to tell him everything about my day and what I'm thinking and feeling. Man I miss him!! Anyways the house renos are underway and going very slowly because there is rarely anyone around to do them!! But to be honest I love painting and fixing up the house and look foward to doing it and bringing out "the handyman" in me.

Being in Pincher has been great so far. God has really blessed us in so many ways and has confirmed our move numerous times to us. It can be a little lonely but I think that once I"m working out there and are just around more we'll get to know a few more people. Also please pray for my job situation. my temporary position in Lethbridge end September 2 and I have already applied to the Pincher Creek Hospital. Pray that the online application system actually works for once and my application gets to the right people and that God will provide a job for me!

Also for anyone who doesn't know yet... Jeff and I are now uncle and aunt. Jeff's brother Nick and his wife Denea had a little boy, Liam and we LLOOVVEEE him so much. ( I was going to post pics but my computer is stupid). They are all amazing and wonderful and Jeff's other brother Ryan and his wife Amanda are expecting in January so more little guys are to come... super exciting.

Have a good one.

We are officially moved. On Tuesday we moved all of our stuff into our new home. I hadn't seen our lovely orange beast for over a month and couldn't really remember what it looked like but I still love it as much as when we first saw it. We are finding more and more quirks wih the house and are prioritizing the renos that will need to be done but in all the house in old, beautiful and has lots of character. No cookie cutter house for us!! I've already spent a few ours in the yard with all the flowers trying to figure out what they are and how to care for them. There are also lots of weeds to be taken care of but I'm enjoying it so much. Hopefully I'll develop a bit of a green thumb. Other than that I've been working nights and Janessa graduated, she was so gorgeous.

The house is packed...mostly... I can't find anything, everythings a mess and were're moving in 3 days.Let the fun begin!!

So things are moving along pretty well. Jeff and I found out today that all the conditions on the sale of our house are removed so other than a signature for the lawyer our house is sold!! so now I'll just have to start packing but we have some time as the possession date in July 1... meaning I'll probably procrastinate until very close to then.

We also found a house that was listed privately in Pincher Creek and gave the family a call. They were just in the process of finding a realitor but hadn't put the house on the market yet. We made a mad dash to Pincher, looked at the house and already love it. It is very old and has LOTS of character. There are also many thing to fix on the 100+ year old house but it's all mainly cosmetic and will make for lots of fun summer projects for Jeff and I. The main hilarity of this home is that the owners have recently painted the exteriour.... orange....bright A and W orange. Oh and the trim is dark blue with some red and yellow accents. It's quite a sight and no one will miss finding it. So we'll hopefully put on offer on today and find out soon if we can call it our own. Again please pray that God sorts out our housing situation and thank you to all who already have been. I wish I could post a picture of it but if we buy it... don't worry I will.

Other than that I'm busy with work and Jeff starts June 3rd as well as taking a class from Briercrest and of course we are busy with soccer!! I hope it doesn't rain tonight.

The Scoop

So Jeff and I have had an eventful past week or so. I finally decided to just apply on the medical floors so that at least I would have a job. In the mean time, the first baptist church in Pincher Creek offered Jeff a youth pastor position. After much praying and thinking Jeff accepted the offer. Therefore we need to move to pincher Creek. I've decided to keep my temporary position (which ends in September) and maybe apply casual in Pincher Creek. So I will be making good sized commutes each day or maybe staying in town when I have 5 night stretches to work. Please, please pray for us in this crazy time. We need to sell our house and find somewhere to live in Pincher. You wouldn't think it but Pincher Creek has a hot realestate market which is about as expensive as Lethbridge and very few houses. I mean right now there are two houses on the market that are in our price range. I don't think I will be able to be choosy about what sort of house we buy! But God has already answered many prayers about how this is all going to work out. Even though some of the answers are not ideal they have all been blessing and I'm learning to trust God with every move we make. He has been faithful and won't let us down now!

I'm alive

Sorry that posts have been so few and far between. To be honest there is just not a lot going on right now. Jeff is still waiting about youth pastor positions. we are really no closer to knowing where we are supposed to be than the last time I posted... which was almost a month ago! We are remaining patient and relying on God to direct us and provide for us. It is trying at times but God continues to provide for our every need. I have been hired on the medical floors of the hospital as a graduate nurse and begin orientation on Wednesday! It is exciting to finally be making money but it's scary to have so much responsibility. I pray each day that God gives me the knowledge and clarity of mind to make the right decisions for my patients. Other than that we are just hanging out in lethbridge, having fun and waiting. Jeff has also had an array of jobs over the past month including.... selling vacuums... I mean "cleaning systems", making boxes ( that was short lived) and presently deliverying anything and everything you can image. This last one has an added perk. Each time I enter our lovely car I think that there is a nice pizza in the backseat. I love pizza smell!! I think the past month as been a humbling experience for both of us but as long as our bills keep on getting paid I don't think I should complain.

Well, I'm officially done my clinical rotation in the ICU but will have to wait till May 1st to be a grad nurse. But in the meantime I can enjoy my grad photos! Yes it is a little stereotypical but I love it. I wish we still had caps and the whole bit to tell the world where I graduated from! Nowadays everyone looks the same in their scrubs from nurses to surgeons to housekeeping to unit clerks. Caps identified nurses and I sort of wish I actually had one! Still no word on what I'm doing with my life but I'll be working a little bit here. I was on 4C today and boy do I miss ICU. Medical floors are crazy and I never feel like I was a great nurse at the end of the day. A little disheartening. But at least right now I can still learn, have lots of experienced RN's around me and hopefully this will be a little more time to prepare me before I'm in charge of a full patient assignment. Jeff has been wonderful lately. Now that he's unemployed for a bit he's been cooking, cleaning, buying groceries, etc. I tease him about being a stay at home dad!! But he really would be good at it!

I had a lovely day today finishing up another stretch of a little work and a little clinical. I feel so uplifted today that even though I only have one week left of clinical and then I'm on my own a few of the doctors today paid me VERY nice compliments.... and doctors are not too quick to compliment a student so I feel quite good at the moment. I'm really nervous about being an actual nurse as being a student is a nice safety net and I feel really comfortable in this role. But even though I"ll be done I still don't have a job. Please pray for Jeff and I as we await news of a new job for Jeff. Pray for patience and also for me as I can't really apply for jobs until I know where we are moving. This is giving me a lot of anxiety as I'm a week away from finishing practicum and a month and one week away from being able to work as a grad nurse. I'm really frustrated and just wish I knew where to apply. I'm sure that life will work out but hey, I'm a type A personality that likes to have my life organized and planned out and living day by day drives me nuts!! What I would give for a personality change right now!

Oh life, why must you torture me?

What a day yesterday was. I've just worked 6 12 hour night shifts and I got 4 hours of sleep this morning to go to the eye doctor. And yes I need glasses... again... . Right now I could cry at everything and anything. I suddenly become extremely emotional with no sleep and I feel crazy. Then Jeff gets screwed over by the dentist and I cried... actually I bawled. Oh well life has just been a little rough lately and I'm tired of it. I don't understand why God always seems to tell Jeff and I to wait. And then on top of it He seems to throw us curve balls. I would just like some answers sometimes so that we could carry on with life and be content. Maybe that's why he tells me to wait all the time and just be content with the waiting. Anyways this doesn't make sense.

The day did look up as I took a nice nap to clear my mind and try to feel normal again. I awoke with a kiss and my wonderful husband bringing me supper in bed! Yes supper in bed... it was delightful... everyone should try it! And then to top it off we took a stroll to 7-11 for a candy run. My man sure does know the way to my heart! Finally we returned home to watch Prison Break which is always fantastic while curling up with my honey on the couch. I guess the moral of the story is that life is always better with my husband by my side even if the rest of our life isn't going as planned.

Exciting News

So just in case people didn't know Jeff and I are going to be an uncle and aunt!! Yes, we are very excited that Jeff's brother Nick and his wife Denea are expecting in July! We've been waiting far too long to spoil a niece or nephew and can't wait to teach them naughty things that will make their parents mad!! It will be great.

Sleep

It's reading week... sleeping in feels so good!

No time for play.

Hey all,

Though I should actually update you all with the happenings of our lives! It has been a while. So I am finally in the ICU and loving it. Each day is a new adventure and I have learnt so much. Who would have thought that after 8 shifts in the ICU I would know so much about medications, cardiac rhythms, trachs, ventilators, CPR, doctor- nurse relationships and have met so many cool people. I origionally thought I would hate doing 12 hour shifts and at first the learning curve was so huge that by hr10 my brain was about to explode and at 3 pm I was so tired (that's usually when I go home and take a nap when I work 8 hours). But now I'm coming around and really enjoy it. Usually you only work 3 days a week then have a few off and it's nice. But my preceptor picked up a few so I've worked 10 shifts in 2 weeks. That comes to about 60 hours of work a week, which is tons period but then put high stress into the mix and it's a little too much. I guess I could handle it if i was getting paid for this but I'm paying to work insane hours. How does that work??!! Anyways I really do love it and could see myself in this area in the future.

Needless to say my house remains a mess as I'm never home ( I might as well live at the hospital) and Jeff is busy getting ready for job interviews. But in 3 more days I start reading week. Jeff and I will be gone for part of it but the rest will involve me doing homework, cleaning, baking, doing more homework and figuring out how to become a nurse in BC, job interviews and also working shifts for my real job that I get paid for!! It will be busy but I'm thankful for the bit of time I will have to accomplish things!

Jeff and I finally got to have a date night and saw Blood Diamond. Wow, what an eye opener. I kind of feel guilty for wearing my wedding rings! good show, go see it!

Bad Wife

I've been noticing how many people are talking about thier wifely duties and how busy it gets. Yes, this is true...if you actually do the cooking and the cleaning and the laundry. I have come to realize that I'm a bad wife. Full time school work and cleaning do not go together. Since we have moved in our house (almost 2 years ago) I have neglected many household chores. My mother would be ashamed of me as I do not spend my entire saturday cleaning bathrooms, dusting, washing floors, doing the dishes, vacuuming or doing the laundry as she taught me to do. I invite company over so I actually clean my bathrooms. Mostly I'm so exhausted from going to class, doing daily assignments and writing papers that any little bit of time that I have left in the day are devoted to curling up on the couch with Jeff to relax.
Honestly, i haven't bought groceries in about two weeks and have been surviving off a few odds and ends that I froze over the summer! I know, I'm a pathetic wife but I suppose that's all I can be for now. 4 more days of class and then 10 weeks of clinical till I graduate!!

Christmas time

Merry Christmas everyone! I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone already and I guess so has the new year! Jeff and I had a great Christmas and finally had a little bit of time to relax and have some fun!

Here is our Christmas tree! Yes it is real and yes I have lots of pine needles on my floor. I greatly debated getting a fake tree... They are just so much more full and actually are shaped properly. But Jeff would not hear of it. My family has always gone to the mountains and chopped down our own Christmas tree and Jeff said that we must continue the tradition and so we did. I don't think that we did all that bad considering that we spent an hour pushing the truck up a hill after it got stuck on shear ice! What an experience. I love my tree, with all the miss matched ornaments and the not quite proper shape with a few gaps here and there! Each ornament has special meaning to me and was given to Jeff or I by someone very special in our lives!

No Christmas is complete without taking advantage of the snow and going for a good ole tobogan ride! Jeff and I took a few of the youth out to the suger bowl for a good time!

My crazy siblings. Instead of gifts the Moermans put their money towards a few "Living Gifts" at Ten Thousand Villages or through World Vision and we took a trip to Calgary for some good food, a movie and ZOOLIGHTS!!

Here we are at the zoo! It was cold but absolutely beautiful... there were millions of lights.

They even had an ice sculptor... can you guess what he is making?

Janessa and I out in the cold at the zoo!

My mom and dad are awesome... and yes my dad is pretty much wearing a beaver on his head! Beaver...Beaver!

Well this is getting pretty long so I'll catch everyone up on New Years later! We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!

ICU

So I just found out where my final placement is going to be... ICU in Lethbridge! I super freaking out but at the same time so excited. Part of me wanted this experience and the other part of my just wanted general medicine or surgery to gain good organizational skills but this experience will allow me to nurse in critical situations that I would never be able to experience otherwise. I'm sure that I will learn so much and get my butt whipped into shape. I'll be studying my brains out so that I'm somewhat prepared for what I'm about to see and do. Wow! This will be one wild ride!

My last paper ... of this semester.

I have a love hate relationship with this time of the year. I love getting ready for Christmas, preparing for our yearly Christmas tree hunt, playing my christmas music and decorating the house. I hate this time of year because the semester is winding down and I'm trying to get my last assignments finished. I have one paper left and it is causing me excruciating pain trying to finish it. I have to create incentives for myself to get even the slightest bit done. I'm close, have to just edit but frankly my paper sucks. I've never written a good paper and honestly I didn't go into nursing to write papers but alas I must in order to get my degree.
On a brighter note I've taken today off work to spend the evening with Jeff.I've been working evenings at the hospital the last three evenings and it leaves no time for us to spend together. Plus I just couldn't bring myself to pick up a shift tonight. The last ones were CRAZY. Its so frustrating to know what kind of care you want to provide to patients but you know that it is just physically impossible. I would have to clone myself three times in order to do so. Despite the insanely fast pace and the frustrations that come along I do enjoy my job and the people I work with. I get to work with some amazing nurses and until you've been a nurse you have no idea what they do and how hard they work. I love being a nurse!

Christmas Treats

Thanks Auntie Emily for the early Christmas treats!! I was very excited and it made it feel a lot more like Christmas with the snow and everything! I know your reading this even though you never comment so I just thought you know I appreciate it!

Love Bethany

PS Your my favorite. And if my other aunts are reading this you have some ground to make up if you want to be my favorite!

Stroopies

So today was the old ICHS bazaar. I'm just a little nostalgic and just had to go. I guess I remember being there all day, playing games, eating dutch food (YUM) watching movies and hanging out with your friends from school. Well Janessa and I went and I realized it isn't all that much fun. We quickly walked past all the tables and didn't buy anything. I did have to have a bit of lunch with stompot and sausage and croquettes (they are to die for!). And of course we had to stop by the "dutch" store for chocolate sprinkles and stroopies ( you know those dutch cookies with the syrup inside). It's funny because I can go to the store and buy these anytime but I just don't because you only buy them at the school bazaar. So our trip took us a whole 45 minutes and there was no one from my graduating class there. I guess they are just too cool for school and I'm a loser still wanting to have so much fun at the bazaar. We JJ and I did have lots of fun anyways and ate too many stroopies!

Grandpa

So my grandpa's surgery went as well as could be expected. Thank you to everyone who was praying! He was only in ICU for about 24 hours post-op and is now on the regular surgical floor. His pain is well controlled and he sat up in the chair today. It's hard because he can't eat or drink anything until they know if the reconnection of the esophagus to the stomach has begun to heal properly. So he has a long way to go but God has been good.