a little windy

Sean's been working at his pediatric clinic for nearly three months now. It's a great place with wonderful coworkers. They've been very helpful with any of his questions and have been careful to make sure he feels comfortable in his new position. He has weekends and Thursday morning off and is only on call (which is just by phone, no going into the hospital) once a week or so. It's almost a night and day difference from his time as a resident. We have dinner together most of the time! We can go on adventures! It's not a surprise when he can actually join me for some outing!


It's not a complete cakewalk, though. He does usually have to bring some work home to finish. And he has his boards to take (WHICH HE'S TAKING RIGHT NOW) so he's been studying in much of his free time. While we've started paying off some of our debts, we've had a bunch of pricey issues come up. It feels like we're purging money, bleh. The kids have done well with the transitioning but have definitely upped their tantrum game. It hasn't been super easy to make friends (dang introversion). Still though, these are just footnotes to the goodness of being out of residency.


We went on a bike ride to the park, recently, that seemed to mimic our life experience at the moment. In a broad view, whee! We're going to the park! It's so much fun! But as we were going it became very windy and cold, then even a little rainy. So we donned our coats and played anyway, maybe cutting our time at the playground a bit shorter. The weather may not be perfect but we're having fun anyway.


It's important to remember that sunshine and warmth will always return.


And in the meantime, we can just put on a jacket and a smile.