Neil, Kimberly and Addison: Updates

Neil starts a pretty adventurous day tomorrow! He will begin his rotations! He has been in PA school for a year and 3 months, where he has lectures upon lectures, pretend patients upon patients, tests after tests, hours and hours of studying, and now the "real" part begins! He is starting in family medicine and then working his way through eight rotations of different specialties. His least favorite that he is not looking forward to is OBGYN. His favorite falls in surgery, dermatology, pediatrics (for Addison) and cardiology. For him, he has the majority of his rotations here in Statesboro, so no more daily commuting to Savannah (especially with the rise in gas prices)! (If he was typing this...I'm sure there are fancy terms for all of the above). I relate it to student teaching, but at least I don't deal with life or death! What does this mean for me? Seeing as it's my post, we'll I'm not sure. I'm hoping more free time at night and on the weekends, but I won't hold my breath. He will be on call, if whatever doctor he works with is on call. Which means life may become more hectic for him (or me). What I'm worried about the most: I haven't spent a night by myself in a long time...maybe at college (I at least had roommates) or when I was home for the summer from college and mom and dad were on vacation (at least 5+ years ago). As my mom would say, "You have to put your big girl panties on and deal"! So, if Addison sleeps with me and all the lights are on...don't worry!

I was thinking about how I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel with Neil getting closer to finishing school. He might have normal work hours with less studying. He's been in school since we've been married, so we don't know any different. But I'm realizing that in a year he'll get a job and then he'll be extremely busy with getting settled in and depending on work hours, on call or not on call, life will still be busy, but different busy, just like now. Except he gets paid! It only took me 5 years to learn that we'll always be CRAZY busy and the light at the end of the tunnel is just a different busy, but it's our busy together that matters!!! I hope that made sense to you, it made perfect sense to me!

Other notes, Addison and the potty stressed mommy out to the point of putting the pull-ups in the closest and will try again over the summer. She started screaming and crying when I encouraged her to go potty. It became a dreaded potty scene of tears, dragging, and no success.

Also, I have had lots of people ask me if I curl Addison's hair. Because she has perfect ringlets and I obviously have straight as a board hair, but NO, I don't get up extra early to curly my 2 year olds hair or do I make her wear curlers to bed. She gets her curly hair from her dad. He keeps it cut really short to hide the curls! But, his mom and I have pictures to prove the curls!!! I get a kick out of people asking if I curl her hair though!?! I barely have enough time to get myself ready, her ready and out the door on time. Not to mention the mental picture of trying to get her still long enough to curl her hair...so, it's all natural. I worry about cutting her hair, because I would cry if her curls went away!