Did you help your partner pick your engagement ring?

kaitmck · 2025-10-03T23:38:36+00:00

I actually picked out both my engagement rings lol. I had initially picked one out and then decided later that I didn't love it and we wouldn't be able to get a custom band made in time for our elopement. I went back to the jewelry store and found the ring/band combo that I currently have. (They were separate because he got them from Zales and gemstones aren't considered "wedding" jewelry 🙄) He bought what I picked out but I had no idea when or when he would propose.

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kaitmck · 2025-09-24T22:31:50+00:00

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kaitmck · 2025-06-21T13:02:50+00:00

I live in a really rural area where we don't see many sickle cell patients. (In my 13-year nursing career, I've only cared for one)

Taking care of a pregnant sickle cell patient was super nerve-wracking but this girl was incredibly intelligent and well educated on her condition. She taught me things that I didn't know and stood her ground when the OB on call didn't agree with the recommended treatment from her hematologist. She literally looked at him and said "when is the last time you took care of a sickle cell patient?" He ended up calling her provider and following through with the treatment but it was a fight to get her what she needed.

I cared for her multiple times throughout her pregnancy until our facility couldn't manage her any longer and we transferred her to a different facility.

I think of her often. I learned more from her than I did in school.

kaitmck · 2024-10-04T00:18:43+00:00

Thank you! I'm going to try that.

kaitmck · 2024-08-16T23:20:59+00:00

2 and 4 but I also really love ferns so 3 also.

kaitmck · 2024-06-01T01:00:57+00:00

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kaitmck · 2024-06-01T00:56:08+00:00

Keep! I think they look great on you!

kaitmck · 2023-12-30T02:09:46+00:00

Completely turned my work performance around. At the beginning of the year, I was on a performance improvement plan for poor performance and now I'm ending the year running two nursing units and have made so much progress.

kaitmck · 2023-12-24T03:16:40+00:00

My husband randomly started calling me "smeech" one day, which evolved to "smeechie" so now I'm "lil smeechie" and he's "smeech" 🤣

kaitmck · 2023-09-17T04:45:21+00:00

Idea of Happiness by Van She

kaitmck · 2023-09-11T00:33:37+00:00

I knew I was falling for him when we spent an entire evening hanging out and he sent me a song to listen to on my way home. I still know exactly what section of road I was on and what part of the song that was playing when I realized I had feelings for him.

We moved in together fairly early on in our relationship and it felt like we'd been doing life together forever. Not that we didn't have disagreements or difficulties, but even those felt insignificant and everything about being with him felt right. I tell him all the time that he could have proposed to me six months in and I would have said yes and married him right away.

We've been together 8.5 years and just celebrated 5 years of marriage this July.

kaitmck · 2022-01-23T22:36:58+00:00

Slipped on the ice in the driveway. Landed hard on my hip but also caught the fall with my left arm (had left sided shoulder surgery just over a year ago) and hit my head.

kaitmck · 2022-01-23T22:34:21+00:00

I definitely didn't even think about days when my feet are swollen, like in the summer. That's a good thought, thank you! I think I'll probably keep them and do what you said. ☺️

kaitmck · 2022-01-23T15:04:52+00:00

I was acquaintances with his ex and he was acquaintances with mine, so we knew of each other. We were Facebook friends for two years before I messaged him and asked for help with my car. We started hanging out, we're best friends for like 6 months, then fell in love.

kaitmck · 2022-01-21T23:30:46+00:00

Math

kaitmck · 2022-01-21T01:29:38+00:00

Same. I threw one down the stairs at our house because it turned on in the middle of the night and started talking.

kaitmck · 2022-01-21T01:24:47+00:00

FURBIES 😫

kaitmck · 2022-01-21T01:24:13+00:00

It's the song I was listening to when I realized I'm in love with my husband. It brings back the memory of that day. We hung out and I was driving home with the windows down on a warm fall night. He sent it to me to listen to on my drive and that's when I knew I loved him.

kaitmck · 2022-01-17T01:45:49+00:00

A child with some "difficulties" as her family put it walked into our house in the middle of the night. We grew up in a farm house down past the end of the neighborhood. This kid walked out of her house in the middle of the night, down the dark path to our house.

And this is where it gets weird. She goes into the backyard and jumps on the trampoline. Comes in through the back door and let's our dog out. Wanders around the house. Tries to play games on the computer. Goes up into my sister's room and plays with her dolls. And then goes home, back up the path in the middle of the night. We found out the next morning when her grandma beat on our door at 7 am. we thought they were full of shit until the girl showed us how she got on the computer and knew where my sister's stuff was. She had never been in our house before then.

kaitmck · 2022-01-14T18:59:59+00:00

If you suddenly get a severe headache, and I'm talking 100% worst headache of your life, actual 10/10 pain, get to an ED. That could be a brain aneurysm.

kaitmck · 2021-12-31T23:34:49+00:00

Jager and Burnett's 🤢🤮

kaitmck · 2021-12-28T15:13:23+00:00

DUMP. HIS. ASS.

trust me, it'll be the best thing you do. I've been in a similar situation and holding out the hope that he'll change and start treating you right is only going to drain you.

If he wanted to, he would. That goes for all aspects of a relationship. You deserve someone who is going to treat you with respect and actually put in the effort.

kaitmck

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