Caleb is taking the Step One of the Medical boards on February 20, so he has been studying like mad. I must say he is an amazing husband and father and I absolutely adore him. No matter how busy he is or stressed he is he always takes time out to be with us, and do all his church duties. He is really good at keeping his priorities straight, even when I know he is stressed with school. With the board studying he leaves in the morning and comes home around 5:30, plays with Joshua, and eats dinner with us. By seven he is back at the books until about midnight. This is nightly Joshua and daddy time.
I really appreciate and am proud of his diligence, and am grateful that he takes his role of providing for us so seriously. That said, honestly I have been getting a little bored of the boards. Even for my hour or two a day I get him, his head is wandering through micro biology and pathology. (By the way I have declared my hour of dinner time with Caleb a phone free time, so if we don't answer we will call you back, but our time together is short and sacred. You all can wait.)
I have been finding ways to entertain myself. I have my daily routine of waking up and bundling Joshua up in the jogger and going for a run. Since my surgery I have not been able to run, compounding my boredom for these last two weeks. Instead I have been taking long gentle walks in the frigid Vermont air. It gives me meditation time and fresh air for the day, which without I would go mad. To break my boredom I went out on a limb and invited all the med student wives and their kids over for lunch. Now for those of you who know me best you know this was really going out of my comfort zone. I have always been a bit of... well you could say a loner (Caleb says introvert-ish). I am perfectly content running, gardening, cleaning, reading, doing whatever all day with little to no social interaction beyond my family. I love to work, be outside and basically always be doing something. The problem is that before medical school I always had lots of family around to interact with all day. My family has always been my friends (I still talk to my sister everyday around 12). So being here by myself I have noticed that I actually do need more social interaction than previously assumed. I think Heavenly Father moved me here to Vermont, with long lonely winters, a social husband, and none of my normal society anywhere nearby so that I could learn to step out of my bubble and rely on others more. Anyway I had a wonderful time at lunch and am very grateful for all the wonderful friends that I have nearby, who know exactly what is like to live through medical school. I am also very grateful for free long distance calling :).
Besides hosting lunches, I have been playing with Joshua. He is very entertaining. This is one of his favorite toys.
Today he is eight months old. Since he has started to crawl he has really taken off; he is non-stop movement and noise. He is extremely sociable, loves to snuggle, and to play with me or Caleb, but not so much by himself. Part of that is being the first, but I have consciously tried since he was little to let him play on his own, but he never wanted to. He would much rather sit with me and see what I am doing and interact with me than play with toys. So he keeps me busy, he really has a great little personality, and is very smiley and funny. I spend half my day crawling around playing peek a boo with him around the furniture. I really could not imagine are more fulfilling and wonderful job as mothering. Not that it is not hard; I remember thinking that my mission was the most physically, emotionally and spiritually draining, yet fulfilling work in the world. I stand corrected. Mothering beats it a hundred times over. Anyway, Joshua has decided to go all out in getting his teeth. All four of his top front teeth have been cutting through at once this week. He has taken it really well, but defiantly has been uncomfortable and not able to sleep. Hence, I am a little loopy this weekend.
Every month around his month birthday I do a little photo shoot with Joshua. One day I am going to get a "real" SLR camera, with manual focus, interchangeable lenses and all that fun stuff. Of course, by that time we also might have a TV that is not purple and green, a perfectly functioning car, a dishwasher where the hoses don't explode off every time we run it, a computer that has a functioning hard drive... and all the other little non-necessities of life. I can always dream, right? :) Anyway, these are a few of my favorite pictures from the latest photo shoot, although they are getting harder to take as he becomes more mobile.
Grandmas, write up your orders :)
Today he is eight months old. Since he has started to crawl he has really taken off; he is non-stop movement and noise. He is extremely sociable, loves to snuggle, and to play with me or Caleb, but not so much by himself. Part of that is being the first, but I have consciously tried since he was little to let him play on his own, but he never wanted to. He would much rather sit with me and see what I am doing and interact with me than play with toys. So he keeps me busy, he really has a great little personality, and is very smiley and funny. I spend half my day crawling around playing peek a boo with him around the furniture. I really could not imagine are more fulfilling and wonderful job as mothering. Not that it is not hard; I remember thinking that my mission was the most physically, emotionally and spiritually draining, yet fulfilling work in the world. I stand corrected. Mothering beats it a hundred times over. Anyway, Joshua has decided to go all out in getting his teeth. All four of his top front teeth have been cutting through at once this week. He has taken it really well, but defiantly has been uncomfortable and not able to sleep. Hence, I am a little loopy this weekend.
Every month around his month birthday I do a little photo shoot with Joshua. One day I am going to get a "real" SLR camera, with manual focus, interchangeable lenses and all that fun stuff. Of course, by that time we also might have a TV that is not purple and green, a perfectly functioning car, a dishwasher where the hoses don't explode off every time we run it, a computer that has a functioning hard drive... and all the other little non-necessities of life. I can always dream, right? :) Anyway, these are a few of my favorite pictures from the latest photo shoot, although they are getting harder to take as he becomes more mobile.
Grandmas, write up your orders :)
2 comments:
You are quite the photographer!!! Those pictures you took of Joshua are adorable! Thanks so much for doing lunch. That was so much fun and so yummy. We are just under 2 weeks until boards are over... I'm with you, I can't wait for it to be over.
So sorry about the exploding dishwasher - but we warned you as did the Parker's us (hahaha!) Someday we can all have beautiful working dishwashers. Thanks again for lunch! If you ever want to be sociable doing all your labor intensive activities, please call me - all of yours are my favorites too - aside from scrapbooking, I'm a lost cause!!
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