Over worked and under paid

This is how Jared always feels (life of a resident) and how I have felt the last few days. The days have felt long as we haven't had much to do and Jared's been gone a lot. We are both ready for our month vacation! Jared has been working six days a week for several weeks now and most of his days off have been spent creating presentations for morning report and ground rounds. They make the residents give morning report on a specific topic to their fellow residents and medical students, and it was Jared's turn the other day.  Ground rounds is a bigger deal as that is given to the attendings on another topic for about 30 minutes. Not having him home on most weekends is a huge bummer. What would that be like? The rotations where he has weekends are so amazing. He can go to church with us, go explore LA or just stay home and play. It makes all the difference in the world. I have never seen someone fall asleep as fast as Jared does when he is on wards. He is asleep in seconds, no joke! It's quite amazing!

The boys and I have been doing what we can to keep busy, playing lots of london bridges, going to the park, the normal things like workbooks and puzzles. Ethan loves to help me whenever I'm doing something, so  yesterday as I vacuumed he followed with his pretend vacuum after me. We washed the car, vacuumed the interor, did all the laundry and spot treated the carpet. He was such a big help and loved it. Next week we will be super busy and fun since we are going down to Orange County to start our break. The Bedke's are moving to San Fran on Wednesday so we will drive down in the morning to see them, get my haircut, Evan's 3rd birthday party, lunch with Barbara, may go to the beach and whatever else our heart desires. I heart OC!