Sarah Who Wanders...

Life is going well. I have officially been working just 16-20 hours per week for the clinic, learning a lot in my new role in urology, filling in for my old role in pediatrics😏, will be training in dermatology, and so far battling through 15-25 hours per week of online "live" class, video lectures and study time. I like one class (advanced pathophysiology) and hate the other (research methods).I have made it to a handful of Matt's bball games, and Isaiah is practicing for his first ever piano recital! We leave for Spain this coming Thursday and will be away from kids, family and 4-legged children for 10 days as we explore Barcelona, Malaga, Montserrat (monastery not the island of same name), Granada, and then one night in Amsterdam on way back. I have had a BLAST planning this vacay and hope it is all I have dreamed of and a time to reconnect with my wonderful hubby who is, as always, my biggest fan and supporter of my dreams.  Last night we got to have a date night, a

Can't wait! I am officially in the trenches of term 1 out of 7 of nurse practitioner school. I have gone from excited to oh my God what did I sign up for throughout most days so far. I thought that nursing school was tough. I have said it before, the work was not always hard, but the sheer live, eat, breathe everythingness of it was exhausting. I have leveled up. I feel like I have learned more in the past few weeks than I did in all of nursing school though I am sure that is not an equal comparison at all, it is just how my muddled brain feels. The A LOT-ness of it is overwhelming. I am in the part-time, 2 1/2 year program as the full-time program actually has in writing in multiple places, no working during this program is recommended at all. So, in order to not totally ruin our finances, I am going slightly longer. I take 2-3 courses a semester for the first year, and then I go to an "immersion" weekend on campus in Boston which will be dreadful (clinical