Wow! It has been almost 10 months since we were last here in blog-land?! You might be asking, “Where’d you guys go?” which is a totally fair question. As the title of our blog suggests we are both Docs (Alyssa-pediatric resident, Val-practicing dentist) and we are also both moms. When we started this blog we were both very busy, and life got a little ahead of both of us and the blog kind of fell to the bottom of the list. Alyssa had a very busy season in residency, and shortly after our last post Val found out she was expecting baby #2. But life is constantly evolving, baby Joseph has arrived, and we really missed blogging…so here we are. We can’t wait to share with you again! Here are a few photos from our time away!
Val:
The amazing professional pictures were done by the very TALENTED Sarah Parent of Sarah Parent Photography. Find her at Sarah Parent Photography
Alyssa:
Upcoming on the blog: Val talks about coming back to work after baby Joseph was born!
I am hiding in my bathtub. I snuck away from work a precious 1.5 hours early, I fed the baby, I passed her off to my visiting mom (thank you Jesus for grandmas), and I side-stepped my way directly into the tub.
You see, my friends, I am an alone-time person. As Val can testify, while I loved to sit on the couch in college and watch Sister Wives with a bottle of Oliver Moscato and my gal pals, I also really loved to shut my door and watch Netflix until the sun came up with zero interruptions. I am not an alone-time-on-my-commute-then-hang-out-all-night person. I am not an alone-time-for-ten-minutes-in-the-shower-before-bed person. I am a shut the door, everyone out, nobody touch me, nobody talk to me, I-need-some-serious-time-to-myself person. You know what doesn’t happen when you work 75 hours a week and have a child who is always home when you are? ^That. I have long needed this time sans-others to recharge, and it is juuuuust not happening these days. If I am not holding the baby at home, I am scrambling to catch up with my overflowing work-work and emails. If I am not at home, I am driving to work or working. Night out with friends? What is that? I can’t even think about it until I have five minutes to myself.
A particularly lovely pre-residency, pre-baby bath a la 2015
Today while I was driving from the hospital to a simulation session, pumping and eating while driving, and already 10 minutes late, I seriously considered pulling over, laying down in the grass, and just ignoring everyone for a few minutes. Then I realized that was crazy, and the bathtub >>> the grass. But – I had gone long enough running place to place and ignoring myself.
Have you read the book “Five Minutes Peace” by Jill Murphy? I haven’t since I was a kid, but I remember the story: Mrs. Large (an aptly named elephant) has three crazy kiddos who will not leave her alone. All she wants is Five Minutes Peace in the tub. I think about Mrs. Large a lot these days. I only have one kid, and I still can’t get Five Minutes Peace! I feel you, Mrs. Large. I am you! I am hiding in my bathtub, listening to the controlled chaos of the baby and the dog outside, and blatantly ignoring the uncontrolled chaos of my inbox.
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