Milestones

Aiden lost his first tooth this week. He's so proud. He's also starting kindergarten in a week. Milestones. Seems like yesterday when... Parents, you know what I mean. One day you're bathing them in the baby bathtub, and the next they're off to college and having children of their own. Well, okay, so we're not there yet, but I know how fast we'll get there.

It's funny how we wish away so much of our lives and then wish for it back. For example, "I wish Rich was finished with school," or "it'll be nice when the baby sleeps through the night". While all that may be true, I miss my kids already. I'll just have to enjoy them while I can.

First Day of Internal Medicine

Today is Rich's first day of rotations. Specifically, he has the first six weeks of Internal Medicine. He is also on call today, which means he won't be home until tomorrow afternoon. Crazy! A classmate of his who was on this rotation the last six weeks said she didn't even know where the call rooms were because there was no time to sleep...30 hrs straight.

The Results Are In...

Today was a red letter day. I woke up this morning able to finally see out of my left eye. Of course my site kinds comes and goes a little as my eyes get tired and dried out throughout the day, but today was the first day I was finally able to see clearly out of my left eye since I got LASIK. I would venture at this point to say that if my eye site is as good as it was when I woke up this morning, I'm glad I did it.

The bigger news is that Rich got his test scores for Step 1 of the Boards this morning. He got the score he dreamed of getting, but was afraid to hope for, and tested above the mean for accepted radiation oncologists. He got a 241. So, once again, all of your faith and prayers have helped him achieve another success. A big THANK YOU from us! Congratulations Rich!!!!!!! I'm really proud of you.

Hymas Family Reunion 2010

Clark and Katie, Rich's brother and SIL, planned a family reunion at Katie's grandparents' cabin. Then, they moved to Missouri (see the post about Clark and Katie's farewell). Amazingly, they flew back for the reunion and went and bought all the food. Talk about troopers!

The reunion was so much fun. We got to get out of the city and into the beautiful outdoors. And enjoyed some good cooking and our wonderful family. We all took turns preparing a meal and just enjoyed hanging out. Madalyne, our SIL, even did glitter toes for the girls.

Thanks Clark and Kaite!!!!