Some things I've Learned

With Chris being in the line of work that he is, I have learned a few things over the last 10 years.

1. If you can avoid hospital visits in July--do it. July = new residents, medical students, etc.

2. Holidays are not always on there actual calendar day. For example, most Thanksgivings at our house have not been on a Thursday.

3. Pagers will be an ever present force in our life.

4. Student loans may or may not haunt us for the rest of our lives.

5. This will only take a minute does not actually mean 60 seconds.

6. Medical skills come in handy on vacation.

7. When you say, clinic closes at 5, that means you hopefully are home by 6:30-7 ish.

8. It is possible for me to wake up in the morning and have no idea that Chris has left and come back from the hospital. Occasionally more than once. It has become possible to sleep through anything.

9. Home call is a billion times better than in-house call.

10. Never have a baby in the winter--EVER! RSV is the worst. Kids with colds touching a newborn = not good.

Turns out we don't listen to everything we learned.

Baby #4 is scheduled to make an arrival December 31st.

I am always early.

Chris is working Christmas.

Fingers crossed that Santa makes it to our house this year.

And to all my grandparents who teased me over the weekend about having twins (and for good reason I am showing EARLY this time!), I heard the heartbeat and there is officially ONE baby.

I am breathing a major sigh of relief.

So here's to hitting the 12 week mark and hoping the nausea takes a leave of absence from me!