My Thoughts From This Week

I haven't really talked about my kids a lot yet, but my oldest is 19 months and my little girl is 5 months. I just had to write and express my excitement that I am finally getting some sleep at night! My son goes to bed around 1830 or 1900. My daughter does now too! I only have to feed her once in the night around 0300 or 0400. It's simply wonderful. Her naps aren't all that great yet, but I'm cool with it if I can catch 4-5 hours in a row in the night. woo hoo.

On a side note, I've been totally busy trying to clean our house do laundry and pack for our family of 4. We leave tomorrow night for my parents house. Yet another plane ride. Yet another hope and prayer sent up that it will go smoothly and that there will be extra seats so the car seats can go on board. It makes things easier when the kids are in their seat instead of in my seat jumping up and down. Also, we'll be traveling with my husband, yay!

I always pack the skip hop double duo diaper bag the same every flight.

• enough diapers for both kids for half a day
• two travel wipes cases
• infant tylenol given 30 minutes before take off ;) don't want those ears hurting
• my bebe au lait hooter hider to feed the girl
• rice cakes for the boy to eat on take off and landing (keep the pressure equalized!)
• thomas the tank engine laptop for the boy
• crayons and a surprise book to color for the boy
• an extra outfit for the girl (i just know the blow out will happen on the flight)
• jackets for the boy and the girl
• my wallet
• chapstick
• cell phone
• digital camera
• empty sippy cup to fill on flight
• cell phone charger!
• soft rattly toy for the girl to play with
• a pen
• my planner
• diaper changing pad
• zip lock bag for the liquids

Tomorrow night I'll have help putting the kids to bed and get to see some close friends :) YAY!

It's been super hard the last couple months with Mark being gone SO much. He's been under lots of pressure. The last 3 weeks have been all testing from in house exams to mock boards. He is using his mock board scores instead of class rank when applying to residency. I'm so proud of him though for being able to help most nights with bath and bedtimes and making sure the kids and I know that he loves us. I'm excited to get step 1 over with and get started in on year 3. I think that things will change so much over the next couple years. I can't wait to watch Mark discover what part of medicine he loves and learn what he really wants to pursue for residency. So far he has thought orthopedic surgery. He's been working with ortho for a year and has presented research and loves scrubbing into surgeries. Waiting for his scores for the boards to come back is going to be anxiety ridden. We know that a score can make or break you for an ortho residency. Also our little man will turn 2 this year and the first year of our daughters life is nearly half way through. Soon we'll be seeing her crawl, walk and begin to talk! Tomorrow begins a resting period for me and a new chapter in this journey of medicine as a family.