shaking my tambourine: what's up with the dad?

Sometimes our lives feel a little like they look in this picture:

And you know what? I'm ok with that.

But, since grown ups are people too, I don't want to forget about the second cutest member of our family. And as Adam recently had a pretty big milestone birthday (not 18) let's do a little post just for him. Mind you, he didn't ask me to write this post, he almost certainly won't read it, and there's a good chance I'm going to post an unflattering picture of him on here. Happy birthday baby!

So, we field a lot of questions about what Adam's daily schedule is like and...it's complicated. Let's start with the bad: on an inpatient rotation, like the one he's on right now (like...right now!) he works six 12-14 hour days a week. He also usually has a week of nights thrown in there and a couple of 24 hour shifts. He's currently (currently!) at the hospital, has been there since 7 this morning and will probably get home around 9 tomorrow morning. He most likely won't get any sleep tonight and will need to be back at the hospital at 6:30 pm tomorrow for a night shift. And his holiday schedule this year? We just don't talk about it.

On the flip side, he has four or five clinical rotations per year and he has a much more relaxed schedule those months. He works five or six 9 hour days a week. Breezy! He also has 3 weeks of vacation a year and we're looking forward to one of those in January. Not sure whether to lump this in the "good" or "bad" category but we're headed to Pocatello for 2 months this summer. More on that another time.

It's now pretty certain that Adam won't be pursuing any more training after residency which means that this time next year he'll start looking for jobs. He'd like a clinician job but may end up working as a hospitalist or in an urgent care until he finds something that is really the right fit. We're fairly sure we know where we want to move after residency but I won't put it on the www just yet seeing as how Adam doesn't have a job offer, we don't know where we would live (rent? buy?) and technically I've never been there before. So.

There's probably more to say but I've kind of run out of steam. The only thing left to do is post a bunch of pictures of Adam and Anders. I know why you're really here.