A Place to Start

So.... all it takes is a place to start, a blank page, or in this case a computer and a keyboard. I've never been much of a creative writer, my focus has always been in the human biology science world. Its straight forward, it makes sense and its something that has always come easy to me. Writing on the other hand, has always been the daunting, but expected task that comes along with every part of life. But as this last year has trucked on, I have found myself drawing farther away from the science world and yearning for something different.

Before kids, I had it all lined up. Go to school, get my nursing license and that would be my life ticket. Roughly 4 years ago, I got an itch to do something different. Nursing was becoming stale for me and the constant feeling of being responsible for my patients every day health (that's not the way its supposed to be BTW), I took a leap of blinded faith and jumped into Healthcare Administration. Now, I work with a great group of Physicians who have always pushed me to try new things and explore the vast world of healthcare, so it wasn't out of the realm of possibility for me to step into that role, but I can't say the last 4 years have been easy. Its been challenging, frustrating, exciting all rolled into one. Some days are easier to get up and go to work than others, but at the end of the day it still brings me some level of fulfillment as well as puts a roof over our head and food on the table.

This year, things began to shift in my wants and needs for my life and my family's life. Work is hard and has been especially difficult this last year. My boys aren't little anymore and are becoming more and more involved in sports and friends. My husbands job is demanding and pulls him away from family a lot, which is hard. He tries his best to be there and do as much as possible, but long hours and high stress sometimes lends itself to just needing a quiet place to sit and not do. It's this shift in our lives that is at the center of the push to start. Start taking the time away from work to spend with my kids, they are only young once. Start reaching for the strings that will allow us to travel and see the world more. Start slowing down and not rushing from one thing to another. Start moving back to a work to live not live to work idea.

So here I am, starting that shift, finding a place to start this new adventure. I've never blogged before but hey, there is never a wrong time to start. Its time to live Beautifully Colorado!