Apparently, I took a little blog hiatus this past month! It was nothing planned or intentional - life has simply been very busy. My work has been especially demanding. Grammy was here for a visit around Easter. We've been working on stuff inside and outside the house. We've confirmed an elementary school for Rebecca. Just the everyday details of life!
I have been doing some private practice work in addition to my regular job. That has taken up several weekends of late, in doing the testing, and then there is the extra work of scoring and interpreting the tests, sifting through the volumes of medical records, and putting it all together to figure out what is going on with the client and what is likely to happen to them over the course of their life. One of my fellow neuropsychologists resigned, which makes for an increased workload for myself and our other colleague. I anticipate that it will be awhile before we hire a replacement, so that's difficult. Though my job is stressful and there seems to be no end to the work that needs to be done, I love my patients and their families. And I work with a great team of therapists, nurses, case managers, behavioral technicians, and other staff.
Ramy's office has been moving. He is just a couple of blocks away from his old office, but of course that comes with packing and moving and unpacking and relocating. I have pics from his mom's birthday party last month that I intend to post.
This weekend, we did a lot of yard work. We planted some new bushes and plants. Our herb garden is growing and doing well. Rebecca has a multitude of plants that she tends to, including a set of 6 little bedding plants she got this weekend and has planted, dug up, and replanted a few times. She also keeps close watch over our bird feeders.
Our church is embarking on an ambitious quest to complete a $6.1 million dollar building project for our ministry center and pay it off in 3 years. We're so happy to be part of a large, thriving parish that puts great importance in investing and nurturing our young people. Our youth attend World Youth Day wherever it is held every other year. They have groups and gatherings every afternoon and evening, regular retreats, and the youth come to church just to hang out and socialize. I figure that when it comes to the middle school and teen years, as much as we will want to still influence Rebecca, her peers will have as much or more influence. Whatever we can do to stack the deck in her favor to have good friends and the right kind of peer group will pay off for her in the long run.
Rebecca will be attending Chino Hills Christian School for kindergarten. We anticipate that she will stay there through elementary school, unless something unforseen comes up. After that, we'll probably look to St. Lucy's, which is a very academically rigorous Catholic high school that is a great college prep school. It seems so far away, and yet I know that the time will fly by! She is a very eager student. She looks forward to school, sharing time (e.g., show and tell), chapel, and whatever they are learning about. She finds particular subjects she is interested in also. For awhile, it was King Tut. At Easter, she watched a lot of shows on the History Channel and A&E about Jesus, and more recently it has been about The Titanic. She also likes watching Little House on the Prairie, which has become a nightly ritual here. Reading is also a new pastime. We were printing out reading pages so she could learn the different words that have the same endings (e.g., can, man, pan, tan; pot, hot, not, got). This has developed into a really good ability to sound out a lot of words.
I'm looking forward to getting to take some time off work in the coming months. At the end of May, Rebecca and I will be heading East to visit Grammy in Tennessee for about a week and a half. Then we are going to be going on vacation (location TBD!) at the end of July. Grammy will be here to visit in between.
We are all well and happy!
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