May 25, 2007

• It's over!!!!!!!

  Well, after weeks of no internet access since our modem decided it had blinked it's little green light for the last time and keeled over we are now, finally, back in business. Yay!!!! Much has happened and my head is spinning a bit. For starters, I GOT A's AND B's IN ALL MY CLASSES!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!! I am just totally amazed!!! I worked really hard those past few weeks and with the added help of Mom and Gracie with the kiddos and the house I was able to pretty much hyper focus and be ready for my finals. Todd became a hermit and found a hole to crawl into at the school and prepared for boards.

  Just before my finals we got Todd's grades from his last section of medical school classes and.... drum roll please..... HE PASSED EVERY SECTION OF MEDICAL SCHOOL!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo proud of him! It really is quite an accomplishment especially since he was competing with nearly all single people (or at least without children) who were able to devote a lot more to their studying than was possible for him with a wife, 5 children (one of which was born during the toughest section of his first year), two house payments, two cars, health issues and medical emergencies, family issues, marriage struggles, major decisions, and never enough money to keep it all going. I don't have any idea how he managed to pull it off but I respect him enormously for hanging in there and following God's leading in his career. It is one of the hardest education paths you can take as it requires amazing focus, careful organization, intense determination, and tremendous brain power even in the best of situations. With our craziness it is nearly impossible (and I only say "nearly" because we actually made it through! Last year I probably would have said it was impossible; just flat out impossible. But here we are on the other side and we made it... *shakes head* Totally a God thing.....).

  So Todd took his board exam yesterday.... the totally freaky, "everything-hinges-on-this-test" kind of massive exam that every med student dreads. We won't know if he passed it until the end of JULY but for now we are just enjoying the end of studying as we've known it and just trying to put our sanity back together. Last night our med school friends all came over to congratulate him on having it over and played games and watched a movie late into the night. I, however, am having one of the worse let-downs I've experienced in years. I could barely get out of bed today. I expected to be elated and want to party endlessly but all I want to do is sob. Yesterday was also the consultation about our little Tyler's behavior issues. I won't go into all that in this post as that is a whole 'nother long subject matter. I'll just say for now that I am reeling. I need to process all that but I'm feeling numb and completely conflicted in my emotions. Once I get it all sorted out I promise to fill you all in.

  So that's all for today. Lots of pics and more news to tell in the next post..... Thanks, Daisy, for my sweet birthday post!! I had all these cool ideas about how I was gonna introduce my count down to 30 but..... *sigh* Yours was more lovey and it brought tears to my eyes! You are an awesome best friend!!

  More to come.... TTFN!

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