newness

It's been awhile since I last updated, so here we are:

I'm officially almost done with my 4th week at my new job--I can't believe time has flown by like this! I love it so far, although I feel like I am definitely being challenged and still trying to wrap my head around learning everything. There is SO much to know here! But I definitely am loving being in a huge corporation as compared to a small business. Oddly enough, I feel more taken care of here, and like there is more room to breathe and more opportunity to grow. It's fantastic. I am extremely busy all the time now though, as a result, so that is why I have been writing less and less! I also have been hitting the gym hard to keep my energy levels up, and am even working with a personal trainer, who is great! I am exhausted after the gym, but after an hour I feel fabulous again and am already seeing results! I have also been perfecting another habit: getting up early to spend time with God. It's something I have never had the motivation to do before, but finally I decided I would just start committing to it, and so far it's going great. Nolan appreciates it too because it means there is already coffee for him by the time I wake him up for class. He is really hitting the books hard for his boards at the end of March, so I rarely see him home before 9:00. That last hour of the day and waking up with him are my two favourite parts of the day, and I cannot wait until he is done and has at least a little bit more time! He starts on the wards with his rotations in April!That is about all I have to update with us. Next week I start orientation for my volunteer work with Project Read and Bay Area Literacy. It is a program that has volunteer tutors teaching adults to read a few hours a week. Illiteracy is something I feel strongly about, and Nolan finally told me that if I care about something, I will ACT on it...and he is totally right. So, I'm going to! Milo is still kicking and wandering around the house, in case anyone is wondering. He gets into trouble almost daily and we recently decided we are going to try and toilet train him (almost as a joke), like in Meet the Parents! haha! My mom got us a kitty toilet training kit, so we're going to launch that sometime soon! Pictures to come :)
-A