This was my life, just a few years ago. It was a turning point, a moment to inspire change. I submitted this essay to Medical Economics, but it was not accepted. It still meant the world to me. In A Heartbeat January 2017 There is nothing quite like a health crisis to make you reassess …
Have you ever been burned out? Snapping at everyone around you, feeling like you are pulled in too many directions, less focus/drive/productivity, and drained in every facet of your life…I was there before I even finished residency. I was at this point, as I mentioned last week, where I felt like I needed to do …
Where are the keys to my happiness? Most days, it doesn’t feel like I have them; it’s like I have handed the keys over to my children, my husband, my family, my patients, my co-workers, etc. Some days, it feels like the keys to my happiness must have been thrown in a lake. There are …
Why relaunch a blog? This is my old blog, entitled Strawberry Buttercream, with a facelift and a new purpose. You’ll see many old posts, chronicling my struggles and frustrations through residency. In my first post in 2010, I wrote, “Here I will be posting about my own life and maybe one day I will figure …
I waited to post until today, because today, G is 8 months old. It’s like someone pressed a button to make life go so much faster than I feel like it went before. It’s apparently been 5 months that I have been back to work since I had him. It feels much shorter than that, …
This has been the week of natural and unnatural disasters!! Last Sunday, we started our second “Polar Vortex, which kicked off with a round of ice. After all that ice, I saw one of my friends in the ER after a roll-over car accident, where she was very, very lucky to be alive! Every single …
On Thursday morning, I had just been thinking how much I love getting baby G up in the mornings, because he is so sweet and smiley when we wake him. I climbed the stairs to wake him up. I opened the door, and he looked up at me, and let out the loudest, most bloodcurdling …
I don’t know how people do it. I don’t know how people with kids stay on top of, much less ahead of, all the cleaning, cooking, and clutter that every day life produces. Our weekends are spent with laundry and scrubbing; what little time will allow, anyway. I hate to worry so much about keeping …
Resolution 1: Trusting Myself by Trusting in God Read More »
Hey there! Long time no see! I cannot even believe how busy things have been these last few months. Beyond. Just beyond. One of my (many) New Year’s resolutions was to blog weekly….we’ll see how that goes 😉 2013 in review:Some highlights, for which I really have to praise Jesus, who has blessed me beyond …
All of the last bits of baby blues lifted the first week of July, and slowly I started to regain my old identity. By now, I’m completely myself again, and soooo happy to spend this time with my boy. I am realizing that in 3 short weeks, I have to return to work, and I …