1st Exam and an Intentional Meeting.

Well my 1st exam was done yesterday. Fairly certain I got 6 out of 30 wrong, but with a point from collaborative testing I should have 25/30. Giving me an 83% Now before celebrating, an 83% in the nursing program is a C+. You read that right. C freaking PLUS. Not a B or a B- but a C+. Translation: you minimally passed! Congrats! UGH. Next time I will be hitting the books harder than ever and planning on getting at least a B.

As for intentional meeting? Godly intervention might be a better term for it.

After class I sat in the nursing lab talking to a woman in her final semester of nursing school. She warned us that the teacher I have signed up for my next class has the highest fail rate (gulp) and that that class is the hardest one she thought the whole nursing program (double gulp). But she told me we can do it.

She made it through that class with that teacher in spite of the fact that she delivered her daughter by c-section midway through the semester. See she had endured infertility and all of the crazy treatments for 10 years, along with three miscarriages around 2 and a half months. Before she got her acceptance letter they tried one more injectible cycle with IUI. BFN. She got her acceptance letter, submitted paperwork, and guess what? Unmedicated cycle...BFP. She essentially told me not to give up, to continue pursuing tests and treatments if we can afford it (sadly, we cannot at this point in time...).

BUT I did get some other good news, I am only going to be going to school 3x a week instead of 4 for the last half of the semester. Meaning I can pick up one additional day probably! woohoo! Which will definitely help the budget.

Also, I got to thinking about money. And I think that my ultimate goal is to do an IUI cycle before 2012 is done. Probably June or July is my goal as of now. Depending on how quick we get things paid off and use the snow ball affect (from Dave Ramsey!) to pay off bigger debts (not super concerned with car, house payment, or student loans, but it will be AMAZING when all of that debt is G.O.N.E.)

For example: (showing our crazy bills here...don't judge!) We will have JBR paid off in February. That is $50 a month. With taxes/refund check for school we plan on paying: small loan completely paid off - $45/month. other people that will not affect into savings, and 1,000 or so on bigger loan, leaving 1,100 to pay off (115/month) Plus one of my student loans should be deferred soon and that is $85. So if we snow ball what we already paid off (or won't be paying on) that is 180 additional towards the bigger loan. Making it 295. almost 300 dollars, meaning it would be paid off in 4 months or less! Which would mean April. Which would give us a couple months to pay towards things in my best friends wedding, then savings time for an IUI cycle. So hypothetically August we could do an IUI cycle. Which would be AMAZING. After one IUI cycle we need to work on paying off our car loan. Which is 200 a month, if we are able to pay $500 a month holy Moses will I be a happy woman!

2012 if it isn't the year of healthy pregnancy it WILL be the year of bettering our finances. And hopefully our house (we need new windows and a new doors for heating purposes). AND I am going to be more intentional with our tithing. We will not slack this year, because after all if it wasn't for God I would have NOTHING that I currently have: a loving husband, an inviting comfortable home, amazing sisters, a great immediate family, opportunity in the nursing program, and crazy (in a good way!) friends. I truly am blessed.