Sunday Night Ramblings

Today I had the thought that I should update my blog. But, about what? Nothing really exciting has happened this week. A moment later I realized that some great things had happened! I had just taken them for granted. So here I am, 9 pm on Sunday night, remembering a great week.

First of all, Jonathan had his first residency interview this week. That is a big deal because it means that very soon Jonathan will have a paying job. This week he interviewed here in Phoenix but he has 12 more interviews all over the country. He will be interviewing for the next 3 months. We are going to cancel some of them, just because we don't have the money to fly him all over and pay for his car rental and hotel. But it is a relief to know that so many programs think he is a good applicant. Jonathan is going to do a MD residency, which means we will have to go through the match process (it's a complicated process that I'll explain later when I'm not tired) so we won't find out where we're going until March. But we do know that Jonathan graduates on May 15th, on his 30th birthday. We are going to have a big party this year!

And now Janie is a bona fide crawler. She can get anywhere fast. And it seemed like it happened over night. She had been teetering for a while and now she is fast and loving it. For some reason she wants to crawl through tight places, like between the chair and the desk and gets frustrated when it's hard. She loves to get to Sami's toys and for the most part Sami is a great sport. She is pretty good at sharing. When she's not so good at sharing, Janie starts growling. If a hear a low growl, I know trouble is about to start and I had better intervene before one or both are crying.

And lastly, I have been thinking a lot lately how blessed I am to have my two beautiful little girls. They are both miracle babies in my life, and I try not to take either one of them for granted. I think it's so cool that they are so different yet so alike. And they love each other so much. It's amazing to me how Heavenly Father gave me all of the maternal love and maternal instincts for Sami as soon as she was born. I remember when we were in NC right after she was born, while she was still in the hospital, that I had a dream about her and I wanted to go to the hospital right then and hold her. And then when I had Janie, I realized that I felt exactly the same about them both, it didn't matter a bit that Sami wasn't in my tummy for nine months. They are both my daughters, gift from a loving Heavenly Father. And from a loving birth mom and her family (who I will love and be grateful for every day of this life and the next life). My life wouldn't be complete without either one of my daughters. I hope Heavenly Father has more spirits waiting to come to our family, but if that isn't in His plan for us, I'll forever thank Him for the two beautiful spirits that I get to spend every day with now. I am so blessed.

And so I end my Sunday night ramblings with my favorite picture of Janie. Last week, my sweet friend Kristen took our family photos. She is in the editing process right now but she sent me this picture of Janie right away because she said it was too darling. I agree.