our news

As all (or many) of you know, Sean plans to go to anesthesia school. There are requirments that he must meet in order to begin anesthesia school. One is that he must have at least a year of experience in an ICU and it is most preferred that it be in a bigger hospital with a decent sized ICU. He's applied for ICU jobs since the day he finished nursing school. He quickly realized that he would likely need acute care experience before any hospital would hire him into their ICU, so he accepted his current job in Clinton. He still would apply for any ICU job he would see posted at any of the Quad City hospitals, but never heard anything. That is until October...he got a call from Trinity in Rock Island about his application for an ICU position. He was asked to come in for an interview. It went well, but he wasn't offered the job and kept getting asked to come in for another interview and another and another. About 4 or 5 (I lost count) interviews later, he got a call yesterday and he was offered the job!!!

This job is going to change so much in our lives. Not only will Sean no longer have to commute to work (his new commute is 15 minutes), but he will be able to start applying to anesthesia school in the upcoming months. He has been working 7pm to 7am for just under a year and in his new position, he'll be alternating months. One month he'll work 7pm to 7am and then the next he'll be working 7am to 7pm. This is HUGE because that night shift all the time was really getting to him. It'll be nice for him to get a breat every other month from those hours. :) Lastly, this job has more financial benefit for us as well. He is SO EXCITED about all that is to come with this job...we both are!

So that's our big news. Nope, we're not pregnant or adopting again (yet!) like some of you thought we might be, but we are so unbelievable excited and grateful about where our life as a family is going right now.