The big news (if you have not already heard) is that Caleb got a job! He will be working at Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria California. We will be (hopefully) moving to the Santa Ynez valley which is a 35 minute commute, but he will only have 15 shifts a month, no call, nothing more! So a commute is no biggie. My family lives there and in Santa Barbara, and the Goolds (our wonderful friends from Vermont) live there. Caleb is very excited about the Hospital. He had a few different interviews/tours there and really liked the other doctors and the style of their practice. With EM you typically work for a group that contracts out to the actual hospital. Sometimes they're big with tons of contracts around the country, sometimes smaller. Marion is a small private group that's just with the one hospital, which can be good and bad, but in this case it all looks very good. They are starting a family practice residency next year, who apparently will work closely with the ED, and they may eventually have some med students rotating through. Caleb loves a little teaching, but has never wanted to work at an actual academic center, so this will give him just enough of it. All around we are very excited. I am so proud of Caleb. He has worked so hard since his undergraduate years to get to this point. And while he was working on his schooling and training he managed to be a wonderful loving father and husband and some how always managed to provide for us so I could stay home with the kids. It has not been easy, but he has managed beautifully and I am so grateful for him and so glad that we have been on this journey as a family. The journey has been fun and we have learned a lot....But we are all ecstatic about being able to see daddy more, and not have to cram in quality family time when ever he is home for an hour or two.
Caleb surprised me, and scared me when he told me he was doubting doing a fellowship. It was another example of Heavenly Fathers guidance though. He decided in September that the fellowship was not feeling right anymore, but was still unsure. So we put some feelers out with jobs, just to see what was out there. He sent his CV to all the Hospitals around us, and then between Camarillo and San Luis Obispo, since we knew that is where we would ideally love to live. We figured we would do back up plans once we decided with the fellowship. With in a few days Marian got back to us, slowly we heard back from a few other places. Marian was his first interview, and Caleb loved it right away, and it was close enough to the Santa Ynez Valley, where we have always dreamed of living. It seemed a little too perfect to be true. So we interviewed at all the other hospitals that had spots and had gotten back to us, but nothing felt right. We went to the Temple, prayed and fasted about whether to go forward with the fellowship application process or do the job thing. We kept hoping we would hear back from a job before the fellowship deadline. We didn't...but felt that the job idea felt like what we were supposed to do. So we gambled and pulled the application, and have been waiting since November to hear if we really made the right choice. So we learned patience, and learned that we did make the right choice. So we are happy and relieved to know our next step and our looking forward to our next great adventure. We have loved living here and have felt completely blessed and guided through out Caleb's med school and training years. Every choice we made we have prayed and fasted about and have been so perfectly placed in the right program, house, neighborhood, and group of friends. We know that he has once again guided us, and so grateful and excited.
Caleb surprised me, and scared me when he told me he was doubting doing a fellowship. It was another example of Heavenly Fathers guidance though. He decided in September that the fellowship was not feeling right anymore, but was still unsure. So we put some feelers out with jobs, just to see what was out there. He sent his CV to all the Hospitals around us, and then between Camarillo and San Luis Obispo, since we knew that is where we would ideally love to live. We figured we would do back up plans once we decided with the fellowship. With in a few days Marian got back to us, slowly we heard back from a few other places. Marian was his first interview, and Caleb loved it right away, and it was close enough to the Santa Ynez Valley, where we have always dreamed of living. It seemed a little too perfect to be true. So we interviewed at all the other hospitals that had spots and had gotten back to us, but nothing felt right. We went to the Temple, prayed and fasted about whether to go forward with the fellowship application process or do the job thing. We kept hoping we would hear back from a job before the fellowship deadline. We didn't...but felt that the job idea felt like what we were supposed to do. So we gambled and pulled the application, and have been waiting since November to hear if we really made the right choice. So we learned patience, and learned that we did make the right choice. So we are happy and relieved to know our next step and our looking forward to our next great adventure. We have loved living here and have felt completely blessed and guided through out Caleb's med school and training years. Every choice we made we have prayed and fasted about and have been so perfectly placed in the right program, house, neighborhood, and group of friends. We know that he has once again guided us, and so grateful and excited.
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