The Seven of Us

I am ready for a vacation!!  Have been for  month! Today 5 of my anatomy students, all seniors, dropped my class.  They were my favorite 5, too.  It stinks.  I know that it's not personal--they all have other classes they want to try that are opposite anat--bu tit stinks.  Really a bummer for next semester. I am SO. glad. it's almost Christmas!!  

All week long: padres here, cooking, cleaning painting.  House warm, neat, and cozy when I get home. Work getting done on the new house.  Treated to Pizza Hut.  Soon it will end. NO fun! Really, I feel extremely blessed.  I am grateful for the parents I have. They love me. THey watch over us.  They pray for us. They are interested in us.  They have spent many, many weeks and months here and they have developed a great relationship with their grandkids.  My kids all love them and look forward to having them around.  When my parents come to visit, they come to work.  I don't know that they've ever come expecting a vacation. (Which is good.  I doubt they've ever had one while viiting us! Sure, our lives were a little more relaxed when we were able to just sit back and watch the kids play all day.   But even then, they had to deal with less-than-ideal accommodations in our busy home.  Their bed was on the couch and break...