Counting Down!

A quick countdown of all the exciting things going on:
1/4 of the way done with my rotation
20 days until Seth visits
34 until Ashley visits
77 days until graduation
79 days until I move back in with Seth
112 days until our belated honeymoon cruise on the Disney Dream

It's all so amazing! I am unbelievable blessed. We have awesome families and supportive friends and family. I am also madly in love with pediatrics for occupational therapy-- it's so amazing. I had a patient with autism who I was able to make a connection with and close more circles-- it was awesome. I need to re-read a couple books to remember their techniques, including Floortime to review now that I've seen it in person, but I am just feeling so lucky to be in the position I'm in as a whole. I love, love, love working with children and their families and helping them to problem solve. I need to work on communicating with adults, and getting over my shyness, but I'm getting there. :-)

One of my California cousins just had a baby, and she's super cute! The other California cousin (on Seth's side) is getting married over Thanksgiving, so hopefully (as long as my schedule allows it) I'll be making my first West Coast trip, meeting the bebe, and maybe Disney? We'll see how much time there is! I look forward to meeting the husbands, too. :-)

Seth has been in Norfolk for a month now --  it's so strange not to have him here with me every day! Rosie is here with me, which is amazing and makes life so much better-- I'd be a wreck without Rosie here, because I can't handle living alone. I've never lived alone before without at least a dog, and I would hate it. I'm also a big old wussy-pants, and could not handle any weird noises at night without Rosie to protect me. :-) There's a reason I don't watch anything scary! (Like, ever.) I have a couple books I need to finish not because I don't love them, but because I got scared and can't handle reading them and walking outside at night alone!

So, basically, life is good and normal and Rosie and I are just spending a lot of time at the dog park. When it warms up again, I'll hopefully be able to ditch the hat and get a little blonder again before we move! I miss being blonder, although I need to restock on sunscreen as soon as it goes on sale. :-)

I am so, so, so excited about our belated honeymoon! We had to delay in large part because I had food allergies that made travel really difficult, and then I was in school, and we've dealt with the stress of unemployment twice now in the past 2 years. We were hoping to go to Ireland, but we're waiting until we have more time to really enjoy the country and explore! I've never cruised or been to the Bahamas before, so I am beyond excited. It's going to be so much fun! It'll be 4 days for just Seth and I to enjoy each other and reconnect and have just time for us-- no worries, no stress, just fun and love and attention. Plus, we're going over my birthday, and I mentioned to the travel agent that it's a belated honeymoon, so we're going to get surprises of some sort while on board!!! Next steps are getting the passports, visas, and plane tickets, but we'll take care of the passports at least while Seth is in town. :-)

Overall, life is just amazing. I can't believe how fast this rotation is going, and how much I seriously love it. I loved acute care, but my heart really is in pediatrics right now. I want to do PRN work on weekends with acute care to keep my skills in that field up, but, yeah. Pediatrics got me into this field for a reason, and this rotation has reminded me why God set me on this path to begin with. It's insane to me how much I look forward to work each day, even when I'm tired, because it really does fulfill me.

Seth started his new job on Wednesday and was able to slowly ease his way back into the workforce-- it's a great job thus far, and I think it's exactly where we were supposed to be right now. I'm so thankful to have our families to help us through as we live over 400 miles apart, since he's able to live rent-free with his parents. We're both ready for graduation and really being together again! I can't wait to see him and finish up with our Charleston tourism while he's in town, and just spend time as family! Rosie misses him terribly-- when we facetime, she can hear him and cocks her head in confusion as she listens to what he says, especially if she can see the screen. It's so cute!

I think that's all for now! Tomorrow is a shopping day for fabrics and clothes and Mother's Day cards, and then spending the rest of the weekend getting a little more studying done! I reviewed a little last weekend, and was thankful that I remembered more than I had expected to!

Cheers,
Cassi