Dad, RN

You like the title?? As I explained earlier, I'm not really anyone of those things yet. The truth is, they're more like goals. I have definitely started working on them. I'm 26 turing 27 in June. I just finished up my first semester of RN school with a strong B in N301 and two A's in both psychology and pharmacology. I also got to work on having children. We found out not very long ago that we have a bun in the oven.

We are both totally excited and a little on edge. About the same time we found out we were pregnant, my soon-to-be brother and law and his wife lost one of their twins and delivered a beautiful girl along with her sister who left us. It was extremely traumatic for everyone and I can't imagine the thoughts and feelings the two of them went through. I stayed close by and the situation really seemed to strengthen our bonds as family.

All of this has happened in my little tiny two week break between my first and second semester. We were going to try and use the break to make a little extra money by picking up extra shifts. I was going to work some more shifts on an ambulance for the city of Richmond and in the only level one trauma hospital in Richmond (do you pick up on the vagueness... I don't need any drama that comes from being too specific). We both work in the hospital on a brand new unit for the past few months and so far so good.

My fiancee and I will admit we weren't exactly trying not to have children but we definitely weren't opposed to it either. It may seem foolish to some to have a baby in the middle of both parents going through nursing school, yes the same school accepted us both, and only being able to work as PCP (see earlier post) 20hr/wk on yes, the same unit together. Foolish in the fact that we probably won't be able to afford anything and will have to make many sacrifices but also foolish in the fact that we will never have time apart. I used to subscribe to such nay saying. I once believed that there was such a thing as being too close. Until I met her. We have two unique souls heading parallel directions. We applied and could have ended up anywhere, but the same nurse manger interviewed us together and the same nursing school accepted us.
What do you think? Is there such thing as spending too much time together? Or is that something we are just told to think in our socially engineered culture? Besides, where is the quality time in all that we are doing anyway? We could literally be together 24/7, which we're definitely not, and still hardly see one another more than 3 hours a day for quality time.
I know no one reads this yet but I would be interested to hear some opinions...

2300-0700 at the hospital tonight... then dinner with my aunt and fam tomorrow evening where we break the good news...