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The First Two Weeks

Ok all, it seems like the first two weeks of Spensers grad school flew by for me, but when I asked Spenser, he said “I feel like I’ve been in school forever already” So… it’s going completely opposite of what I was anticipating. I think it helps that I’ve met a lot of new people […]

Second Term Recap – Written by Spenser

“It feels a lot like our cat trapped between the radiator and wall I assume” – Amanda Term 2/9 done! First term of clincals complete. How hard was the second term compared to what you thought? The school work was less stressful then the 2nd term, however adding on clinical work to the school work […]

A week into the new decade

Well December got away from me and I haven’t posted an update since… November. So, obviously a lot has occurred since then. We hosted Friendsgiving with our new friends in Philadelphia.The next day we went to an Eagles vs. Seahawks game at the Eagles stadium with our Eagle friends. To say we were not welcome […]

No excuses November

Well since we are already half into this month, I can properly say I’m BEHIND in writing. These goals take ALOT of time. Update on Spenser: the tests are getting more difficult and he is getting more frustrated with the content on the exams. One particular teacher was called out for trick questions, and he […]

A little Behind…

Ok wow. It’s been a while again since I’ve been on here and written an update. Unfortunately the month of September was a nightmare for me at work. The governments fiscal year end is September 30, so I’ve been putting in massive amounts of overtime to make sure everything was good for the year. What […]

First week – Second term

Spenser has officially started the fall semester. He’s began going to clinicals at Einstein and comes home saying “I love my new job”. I politely remind him that it’s not a job, since we are paying for him to go work there, but nonetheless his future is promising and he seems very happy about his […]

First Term Recap – written by Spenser

How hard was the first term compared to what you thought? I expected the first term to be difficult in regards to theory. There were some pieces of theory that took some time to wrap my head around, but the most difficult part was simply the amount of material we were given to study in […]

33 months – 5 goals

Well everyone we have one week to go for Spenser’s first term to be over. Next week is finals week for him and to say he is stressed is a total understatement. I haven’t written in a while since we’ve been pretty much just settling into the routine. I try my hardest to do small […]

Quick Update

I have a second job now. I applied to Morris Arboretum and I’m so excited to say I’ll be working with them part time starting in July. It’s such a beautiful outdoor space and I can’t wait to share fun stories with you all. Also the small significant others group for together for brunch. It […]

First Trip To Philly – Family Visit

Well readers, Saturday my brothers (adopted two years ago) took their very first plane ride to come visit us in Philadelphia. The whole fam arrived in Philadelphia, I picked them up from the airport. As soon as we got the bags in their rooms Frank started in on things that needed fixing in our house. […]

First tests, a visitor, and a red Subaru crosstrek

Hey everyone. It’s been a crazy week. Spenser has his first two exams/tests this week and he’s been studying nonstop for them. Being a SRNA’s spouse is harder than I thought. We started the week Monday going to a UPENN CRNA mixer, at a PHS pop up beer garden, where we were able to meet […]

Easter Island… I mean weekend

Well as you remember I have Fridays off, so I woke up Friday morning groomed the baby, bathed him, set up kitty for the weekend and then headed to Connecticut. Tried to give him a Mohawk We used Waze, for once didn’t evade tolls, and it estimated 3.5 hours. No such luck almost 5.5 hours […]

New job check-in: I love it!

I’ve been regularly teleworking and commuting to NJ for 3 weeks now and I couldn’t be more grateful. I work 4 – 10 hour shifts, I have Fridays off. I work from 6am to 4:30pm so my commute in the AM is 22 minutes and in the evening it doubles to 45 minutes, a little […]

Kitchen Remodel

Well here we are April 16th. I thought I would have been able to blog a completed project a while ago, but here we are. My in-laws came to visit mid February and took down our wall. They ordered us new cabinets, counters, flooring and appliances. Almost two months later it’s ALMOST done. Before – […]

This isn’t Kansas

I woke up to a both our phones buzzing. I grabbed mine and looked to see a typical Apple alert. I figured it was an amber alert and I knew I wasn’t going to see any cars or kids while I was sleeping so I put it down. I laid there for a minute and […]