Bad Blogger: Part 2.

Still more craziness? Yes, this weekend I am going to visit my friends and family back home! One of my sisters just got engaged Sunday night (yay!) and is moving to Tennessee next weekend. My other sister’s birthday is next week, so I am going home to celebrate a birthday and a going-away/engagement. Going home is always kind of an ordeal, only because of med school. Most of the time Kyle can’t go with me because of school. So, that leaves me either traveling alone with Max (our dog) or just plain old traveling alone. Also, when Kyle stays home I have to make sure he has stuff to eat and that the house is clean or he will spend all weekend cleaning instead of studying. But the worst part of leaving is that I don’t get to be with him! Our time together is so few and far between that it has really become precious to me and I hate being out-of-town. But, I miss my family and I get to see my best friend again, so maybe it’s kinda worth it. 🙂

Also, I have started babysitting during meetings for parents with kids with autism. There is a program in Texas called F.E.A.T. which stands for Families for Early Autism Treatment. They meet twice a month, every other week for about 2 hours and offer support for parents. It’s a great resource for parents, but I am lucky enough to get to babysit the kids with autism and their siblings which the parents meet. It’s a wonderful opportunity for me to make some connections – and make a little extra cash. But, it also means I’m away from the house two more nights a month; which doesn’t sound like a lot, but it can add up! A great thing that is coming out of this opportunity is that a lot of the parents want me to help them out over the summer and possibly be a caregiver to some of their children!!! That would be amazing!!!

I have some good news to leave you with… The other day I was talking to Kyle about how much I don’t want to sub next year, but I also heard that it’s really hard to get a teaching job if you’ve worked out of the district. (I had thought about getting another job, just for now, until I find a teaching job.) So, I was sharing my concerns with Kyle when he mentioned me just going back to school. I wanted to go back anyways for physical or occupational therapy, but was going to wait until Kyle got into residency. But, his thinking is, we lived off of student loans last semester while I was finishing up undergrad and we had more money (even if it wasn’t really ours) than we do now that I am subbing. (It’s not the best paying job) So, why wait? Sooooo, I am going to start looking into schools for physical therapy and will hopefully be working my way into one of them in the next year. I will probably have a year of pre-reqs before I can get into a PT school (I was an education major) but I will be able to work toward my graduate degree and will have WAY more opportunities opened up to me with a PT degree! I am super excited about this opportunity and I will be figuring out more about it soon!

have you ever had weeks like mine, when you realize that you’ve been so busy that your haven’t really seen your significant other? That’s the hardest part about being busy for me is not getting to spend real quality time with Kyle. Maybe I’m just really ready for med school to be out for the summer!!!  Thanks for hanging in there with me and I will hopefully be better about filling y’all in faster! 🙂 Also, any words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated right now 🙂

Bad Blogger.

So, I know I have been M.I.A. for a while now, but things around our house have been a little busy. I am realizing that the school year is (quickly) coming to a close and I still have no idea what I will be doing next year – not subbing, please God, not subbing. Also, Kyle gets finished with his first year of medical school in about 3 and 1/2 weeks! (YAY! YAY! YAY! *happy dance*!)

Besides the major things in our life, our everyday lives have been a little crazier. For example, last Thursday during dinner I looked at Kyle and said “I feel like I haven’t really seen you this week.” To which he replies, “Well, I’ll get to see you tomorrow after my test.” Then I say, “You have a test tomorrow?!?!?”  He says, “Yes, it’s the end of M.O.D.” Normally I know when his tests are; I also normally know things like when quizzes are, when he has written and clinical competencies, ya know, semi-important school things that would cause him to study more than other times. I have no idea how this slipped by me! That’s how crazy things have been for me. And, when I stop to think about what is keeping me so busy? Subbing. It’s keeping me busy and wearing me out every day. This is why I don’t want to sub next year.

Other things that have been stealing all my precious down time? Well, the normal stuff: cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry, etc. But also SAA – I have kinda talked about this group a little bit at the beginning of my blog and have been meaning to expand on it but haven’t had time yet. SAA stands for Student Advocacy Association. It is basically a group of med school spouses – mostly wives. We do things together while the students are busy. It keeps us (semi) sane during these crazy med school years. -Really I don’t know what I would do without this group! I definitely would not be handling our first year of marriage very well at all! – This group has become very important to me and I will tell you more about it in another blog. Well, I have become SAA’s new treasurer! Which comes with a lot of responsibilities, but I am super excited about serving! Part of these new responsibilities was helping out with a huge end of the semester formal to honor the fourth year spouses. Which was the first weekend in May. This event was so much fun! It was Red Carpet themed and we got to dress up and be glamorous for a few hours! It was amazing to hear the husbands brag on how great their wives have been through the whole journey through med school. I am so glad to see that there really is a light at the end of this really long tunnel.  Also, last weekend was our new board retreat, so we can get to know each other before jumping right into the craziness of planning the beginning of the “year” (read: the beginning of med school which starts in July). That was a blast! I got in some much-needed girl time, as well as, I got to get to know some really wonderful ladies! I can’t wait to start serving with them this next year! We are going to have a ton of fun!

Well, that’s only about half of the things that have been taking up my time… But I think this post is long (boring) enough, so I will fill you in on the rest of it in my next post. I guess these things are terrible –I really am excited for SAA stuff – but I am ready for Kyle to have a break. I think that will help with the feeling of craziness. If you have read this far then THANK YOU! I hope you enjoyed learning about why I was away for so long! 🙂 Until next time…

What have you been doing since I’ve been away? 🙂