A random topic I know but I have not been blogging in a while and I thought I needed to contribute something to keep everyone interested (or make sure that you never check again!).
- The peace that comes with celebrating someone's life when it ends rather than focusing on the loss - my great uncle died in the last couple of weeks and I have never seen a more united and loving bunch than the one he left here on earth. I attribute this to his strong Christian faith and that his family knows that they will see each other again in the presence of the Lord!
- Being able to say, "I have to praise the Lord in the bad times just as much as in the good." Same great uncle from the first point. He had a stroke some years ago during a heart surgery that I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about in the first place. It reminds me that God tells us that our life is not guaranteed to be easy - but we should praise Him anyway! And know that He has a plan and path in mind and that sometimes we have to be molded in fire rather than cool-swimming-pool-water-on-a-hot-day easy.
- Total 180: people who can blog EVERYDAY! I am subscribed to many different blogs now that I am addicted to Google Reader and these people have noteworthy thoughts or tips or what-have-you every.day. I don't know that I have them every week (I'm sure I do, just too tired to act on them :))
- How much my son picks up every day. He is now using phrases instead of just one word at a time. He watches Shrek a.lot. and will say "Run away!!" when the people run from Shrek etc. Too cute and too funny! He also helps me make waffles on Saturday mornings (a ritual he and I have adopted because we both love waffles and we are the team up on Sat mornings esp when Joey is on a night shift) - and he will give me updates on the "ready" light - RED means still heating up/not ready, and GREEN means ready. He will tell me what color it is and get excited when it turns green because it's WAFFLE time! He also wakes up on Saturday mornings (and some weekday mornings when he gets ahead of himself) saying "Faffles?" - that's not a type-o, it's phonetically how he says it.
- People who go to the grocery store every time they cook - I try to only go once a week and once every two weeks if it's feasible. I dislike going but will once weekly to get our rations of fresh fruits and vegetables to augment what I have already bought in the meal-plan.
- Teachers - plain and simple. I am now in a role of being a senior resident to juniors and helping teach them a foreign language - EMG. It's our nerve and muscle test that utilizes electrical stimulation over nerves and records them in a computer program. Well, it's a steep learning curve that I only went through last November (so I clearly remember NOT being able to do it) and it still stresses me out that my junior doesn't know what to do! My mother, many of my aunts, my mother-in-law, my grandmother and so-on are great examples of people in my lives who are teachers but somehow that gene skipped me. Thankfully it hit my husband so our kids will benefit from that! I actually asked one of my attendings this week how he was able to let me do so much with his patients when clearly he is better than I am - he didn't really have an answer other than he doesn't let every resident do as much as he lets me do (yeah, I'm just that good :P).
- People who can up and move to a foreign country. I am obsessed with House Hunters International and less about the vacation homes (which is fun to dream about) and more about the people who move to the Czech Republic and other places. I have a friend who just moved to Guam because she is an MD in the military....she's a braver person than I am! I have another who got married, had a baby, then relocated to Norway with her Norway-born new husband. Yeah, she's close to her husband's family and I'm sure that helps a little but her family is in ALABAMA (take a look at the map, it's not close). Our entire family stays a little on edge because we are all so spread out and we are all technically still in the south - just stretching from Richmond to Austin. I saw one HHI where the family was moving to Europe just so their kids would have a unique exposure to different countries and cultures....my kids will just have to be exposed in smaller doses. Thankfully my husband has the same itch to get back closer to family (largely in part, I'm sure, because I would be much happier closer to family!).
I'm sure there is so much more but these are the things I am thinking of this morning!
1 comment:
Love these "aha" moments! Well put.
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