To read our last holiday blog one would get the
impression that aside from the usual hustle and bustle of the season we
spent a care-free and relaxing Christmas vacation.
Not so.
After
graduation in May Zach hopes to spend a year or two doing a residency
to help him reach his goal of teaching pharmacy at a university
someday. This brave Man of the Family was in the throes of applications
all of Christmas break and beyond. These deceptively innocent
applications more or less consumed our lives these past couple of
months as he attended conferences, researched programs, endlessly
refined his CV, and wrote letter after letter of intent. Christmas Eve
saw him surrounded by pajama opening revelry with his laptop open on his
knee, discussing the finer points of action phrasing with his ever
patient mother.
There
have been many late nights and missed occasions dedicated to the
residency cause, and Zach and I have learned anew what it means to be a
supportive spouse. Luckily he had the tenacious aid of his mom,
grandma, and father-in-law to help when I couldn’t stand to review
another bullet point. Thank you!
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| Pharmacist in action |
I
am so happy and relieved to announce that due to the tremendous
determination and keester-working-offing of Zach, all the applications
are IN. Done. Finis. I am incredibly proud of my man. We find out in the next month or so where he will be
interviewing and then matching comes March 21. We’re excited and ready
for change as we learn whether or not we’ll be staying in Utah or
heading out into the great wide world!
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| New year, new beard. Jk, it only lasted one day. |
Eli
did his best to distract both mom and dad during this whole process
with his cuteness (and failing that, straight up whining). He wasn’t
always successful and clearly has some resentful feelings towards the
laptop that seemingly replaced him as his parents’ idol.
