J and I are both going to school right now, in addition to our already massive workload. The biggest advantage to this is that the time is just flying by. But of course that’s a double edged sword…it seems the week is over even before it starts and we’re left wondering where the time has gone.
My classes are those classes left at the end of a degree program – you know, the ones you didn’t want to take so you postponed them as long as possible. For me these are mostly math and science related subjects which I absolutely loathe. J, on the other hand, is working on his clinicals and is doing rotations in various departments in our many local hospitals. In the last week, he’s witnessed 4 births (1 set of twins and 2 singletons, one of which was born heroin addicted) and today watched a 30 yr old woman die from cardiac arrest despite all of their best efforts to revive her. He also ran out of the house at midnight on Friday to take our 82 year old neighbor to the hospital for a suspected heart attack. Luckily it wasn’t her heart, so she’s now home and doing just fine.
What I’m getting at is that while we wait, J is doing important and meaningful things with his time, whereas I seem to be just counting the days until we go to China and doing useless things like dissecting fetal pigs. I’ve even given up on the shopping for Ava and have reverted to buying myself shoes (that I don’t really need but want anyway).
The room that will be her nursery has turned into storage once again and I doubt we’ll attempt to do anything with it until we have to prepare for our homestudy update in August. Since we won’t complete our adoption before the homestudy expires in September we have to do an update ($400) and our social worker has to come back out to see our house. This will be our motivation to get it done. Sad, huh?
But hey, the cat sure likes the $265 Cadillac of carseats we bought in our unrealistic expectation mode back in February. At least somebody is getting some use from it.
~A