married to a dr. -edited to not be so scroogy

Many of you will understand this.....you may be married to a dr. also or some other kind of hard working man!

So about two weeks ago dave said, "I didn't formally request any days off during the holidays because I have some great surgeries scheduled on T/W (21/22) and T/W (28/29) but other than that I will have a lot of days off."

So, fast forward to last night (Sunday) when I said, "so are you going to be around tomorrow (Mon the 20th)." Dave looked at me like I was from another planet and replied, "I have to work."

Realizing he had sort of told me he would be home he said, "Don't worry, in the next two weeks I'll have AT LEAST 7 days off......well, maybe 6."

Denise: "You do realize those days only count if your pager is off and we don't have to drive two cars every where?"

Dave: "Okay, at least 5 days then."

I am grateful that he is not the guy covering Christmas so there is a good chance he'll be home that day. Thank you to the intern who is in house on call and the one Jewish guy in the program who graciously offered to be backup!

I am also glad Dave likes his job. I know he feels bad to miss family stuff but he really loves to operate.

Also, the holidays are fun even when dave is working b/c we have family that comes to town which is a special treat for us.

1st Tooth!

Calvin LOST his first tooth today!

( I would add a picture but the camera is not working again. I guess it was just a temporary fix.)

He lost one tooth on the bottom.

dave fixed the camera

It wasn't really that broken...just had been messed w/ a bit.

Here are a few pics from the last few weeks.

Chorus (sorry for the blurry pic. it's the only one i've got but at least you can see how many kids there are)!



Calvin and Lex loved seeing Santa at our ward Christmas party. Calvin wants the New Super Mario Bros Wii. Lex doesn't really know what Christmas is about yet so hasn't asked for anything.




I took the kids to see the Nutckracker ballet (with a home school group for $5/ticket which is awesome!). .They all really liked it. Lex kept talking about the big mouse that was scary.

favorites

I love Andrea Bocelli. He has been a favorite for years.

watch this version of him singing The Lord's Prayer with the Mormon Tabernacle Chior. If you cannot spare 4 minutes, then at least watch the last 2 minutes.

Here is the URL incase the link didn't work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEplqV0scyo

My kids' favorite is his version of Santa Claus is coming to town. I love hearing his great accent as he sings this playful song.

link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYu5PocI4nk

highs and lows

The chorus concert was amazing. A definite high for the semester of hard work. The parent volunteers who did the set decoration went above and beyond. The kids really loved to shine and turned up their game for showtime.

One funny thing that happened during the concert was that in one of our songs we had a surprise visit from Santa. In one of the songs we have about 90 seconds of nothing in the middle of the song (up on the housetop type song) and it is a perfect time to have Santa come dancing through. We didn't tell the kids he was going to be there. They were so excited and so surprised. Except for one child who started crying and ran off stage to her mom! That would be clare. She is terrified of Santa. It was a good friend of ours so she recovered herself quickly and went right back on stage to finish the concert as soon as Santa was gone.

Everything else was not amazing.

Here is a little conversation w/ lex to give you an idea of some of our lows.

lex: "momma, take my picture!"

mom: "sorry, i can't, the camera is broken."

lex: "That ok momma, you can use the phone."

Mom: "sorry lex, the phone is broken too."

lex: "oh, that is sad"

mom: "yes it is."


Camera broke Thursday morning during chorus rehearsal while Calvin was playing with it and I was busy conducting. I do not know excactly what he did.

Phone broke last Thursday morning during chorus practice. Calvin was being SOOOO out of control that I called Dan and he came to pick up Calvin for me so that I could rehearse. While wrestling w/ Calvin to get into the car I didn't realize that my phone dropped out of my pocket. I was in the drop off zone where parents can swing through to drop off their kids before school. My phone got run over about 100 times as all the parents dropped off their kids in the morning for school...I found it about an hour after I lost it and it was very beat up.

So, no pictures for the week including the kids seeing Santa, the chorus concert or sweet Calvin who I thought about selling this week. more than once.

If you need to talk to me call home or email.

why did the attending borrow the keys?

To get into the office which he had locked himself out of. Dave has about 5 keys on his key ring that are for different rooms in the hospital and aren't really his private spaces. It wasn't a big deal for the attending go borrow the keys (except for him forgetting to return them)!

Our chorus concert is this week so it is a busy week for me! The kids are all SUPER excited which is really fun. Hopefully all goes well and I'll have some time to catch up on the blog later in the week!

dave's keys -- lost and then found

This is just too funny (to me) to pass up recording here so I won't forget it!

So, Wed. night Dave lost his keys. They disappeared while he was operating. This in an of itself is kind of strange since he keeps them in the OR with him and it is not like there is a lot of foot traffic in the OR. So, either somebody who was there with him took them, or they got accidentaly thrown away in the OR clean up. Either scenario is somewhat mind boggling and unlikely. But something happened since his keys were not there when he finished his case.

The case finished around 9pm and Dave spent the next couple of hours looking for his keys and calling around to the different lost and found locations trying to find them. At around midnight Dave called Dan (my brother who lives with us) to come down to the hospital and bring him a spare set of keys. This is one of those situations where it is SUPER handy having an extra adult in the house, and a night owl at that. I would have probably told Dave to find a call room to sleep in if he tried to get me to come down to the hospital at midnight! Anyway, the spare key to Daves car has been MIA for a few months now so as it turned out there really wasn't an extra set of keys and Dave was stuck. So, Dan went and picked up
Dave and brought him home to bed. (although he didn't sleep very well wondering what happened to his keys and worrying about the safety of his car. I was worried too!)

At 6am Dave woke up as he should have been leaving for work and texted a few individuals who would need to know he wouldn't be in to work right away.

Then he started trying to figure out how he would get himself a new key and wondered how long it would take to get one. ... he was waiting for the MAZDA dealership to open at 7am.

Then Dave's attending called.

Apparently this attending had borrowed Dave's keys while he was operating and then forgot to return them!!!! Dave was happy to know these keys were safe and sound! This attending felt TERRIBLE about the run around he put Dave through the night before and offerend to come pick Dave up (but would have missed a case to do so, so it wasn't really an option)! Anyway, Dave ended up asking Dan to drive him back to the hospital b/c I wasn't availible to take him 'til after chorus and he didn't want to wait that long.