When your spouse is in medical school, a funny thing happens.. you and your spouse start developing a whole bunch of Will-Not's.
We (and/or I) will not....
- not vaccinate our children
- play with fireworks: look, but don't touch
- weed-eat without eye protection
- go without religiously consuming folic acid and other prenatal vitamins within months of trying to conceive
- pick at zits on a particular vein line on our faces
- use a certain face cream ingredient anytime before or during pregnancy
- use q-tips in our ears
- smoke. ever.
- ever have an inkling of thought that it might be fun to get on the back of a motorcycle
- talk about cadaver dissection around dinner time
- go fishing without being paranoid of getting a hook stuck in our eyes; our family will probably be wearing goggles on fishing trips with some weird rule of watching each person cast one at a time
- not monitor our health and go to a doctor when our intuition tells us that we should
- ..... and that is just a few!!
And, in no way is this meant to be condescending to those who make these decisions-- these are just our opinions!
We're 9 weeks into this semester. It's been an adjustment, but it's good. We are so thankful to be where we are. We are also looking forward to a medical mission trip to Ethiopia in December. It will be so amazing to get clinic volunteer experience and have that entire trip together. As if I didn't already have a lot on my plate, I decided to start making necklaces to help raise money and I've already raised over $1,000! I'm in awe and so thankful. You can check them out at www.etsy.com/shop/sharehopeshop
On the good days, bad days and every day between... we are so truly blessed.
And it's fall.... and that makes us VERY HAPPY!!
On the good days, bad days and every day between... we are so truly blessed.
And it's fall.... and that makes us VERY HAPPY!!
Hahaha. I just started cracking up in the middle of SAMs club while reading this. Justin and I have had at least 50% of the above mentioned comments (most recently the zit one). Hope you're surviving! I'm not sure how they are on such little sleep. Justin said to me the other day "how can two people live in the same house but never see each other" so sad but true.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree-- there have been days we've had that same conversation about never seeing each other! We're surviving okay, we keep telling ourselves we worked so hard to get him to this point that we've just got to try and make the most of it. (And since we're a little bit older we remind ourselves how much our old "real" jobs sucked! Ha!) We just gotta keep our eyes on the Christmas break countdown!! :)
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