I'm sure you've heard of the Chines Calendar. The year of the monkey,dog,pig,dragon etc. Well, I've deemed that this year is the year of adventure. There are so many things tentatively scheduled for this year that I feel like I should just kiss my year goodbye.
School started back a couple weeks ago. And so far the EMT program isn't too bad. It's actually kinda fun and most of it has been a review except for one or two chapters. Tuesday is our first exam and I'm a little nervous about it. In this program you have to get at LEAST an 80% or it's considered a fail and you're only allowed three fails before you're kicked out of the program.
Not long before school started my family got the news that Jake is going to need his pulmonary valve changed out sooner than later. It's looking like March or April will be when D-day is. In a little less than three weeks my parents have an appointment with the surgeon and they are supposed to be ready to talk solid dates at the meeting. Ugghh.. None of us saw this surgery coming on us so soon! We knew that it was coming, just not in the next three months! Every time we take the child into the Cardiologist he says, "Oh, he's good. See me in six more months for another check up!" This last check up the cardiologist decided that he wanted an MRI and from the MRI together with a echo he decided to present Jake's case to a group of cardiologists in town. They all agreed that talking to the surgeon would be a good idea and then the surgeon decided yeah, it's time. This was all a month long process for my family. I'm thinking that sitting, waiting and thinking is a very lethal combination.
My blog background has been changed for two reasons. #1. I stole my other background and used it on my blog dedicated to mission work. And #2. I thought hearts were fitting seeing that Jake is going in for open heart surgery. The Valentine background isn't because I'm in love or have a hot date for Valentines. It's because a heart is a very big part of my families life right now.
You know what my hot date is for Singles-Awareness-Day?!?!?! I'm planning on dressing up and taking myself out to a chick flick that comes out right before Valentines! I'm actually really looking forward to this. So much so that I've had this planned for about a month! When I shared my planes with a friend of mine, she kind of gave me that "Oh, poor dear" look. And I assured her that this valentines was going to be much better than last years. Last year I babysat two little boys for eight hours!
The other day we found out that the heart surgeon only does surgery on Tuesdays and Thursdays which are the days I have class. But the real blessing is that the first day of class my instructor told us that if you have "shit come up" just let him know and he will do all he can to work around it. :)
May 6Th will be my last day for class. I'm hoping to and praying about going on a mission trip to Ghana in the end of May. We shall see what comes of that. I really would love to go. For about five or six years now I've felt like God is calling me to work in Africa as a missionary and a nurse. The reason I want to be a nurse isn't so that I can help start clinics and things. I don't have a lot of interest in doing that. My hope is to go out into the villages and draw people to me because of the medical services I can provide but build relationships with them and point them to Christ. But we shall see where God has a place for me in the end.
And then in Fall I start NURSING SCHOOL!
*Blows big kiss and waves* BYE 2010! lol
I'm really excited to see how God will use this year in my life. Last year God told me to sit still (that was really really hard!) and learn to let Him be the source of my contentment and peace. Now this year seems to be a whole new box of chocolate and I'm not sure what I'll learn in the end. But I'm looking forward to this new adventure with my God.
