Caught red handed!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Cookie Monster
Last night after I put Kendall down for bed I came downstairs to find Ella sitting at the kitchen table inhaling a box of thin mints. That's my girl! In 48 hours she and I destroyed a box of tagalongs and a box of thin mints. We usually have a pretty strict limit on sweets - not that she pushes it that often because she's a great eater and would normally rather have fruits and veggies. But Girl Scout Cookies are different. Healthy? Nope. Deliciousness that only comes once a year? Absolutely! Ronnie's box of dulce de leche cookies has barely been touched. Weirdo. :)
Caught red handed!
Caught red handed!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
10K Down!
This morning I completed the 2nd leg of the Triple Crown – the 10K. The 10K is twice the distance of the 5K (obviously) that I ran in 2 weeks ago – so today’s race was 6.2 miles. Well, 6.27 to be exact. I always thought it was just 6.2 but found out yesterday while looking at the route online that an official 10K is 6.27. So there ya go.
This race is the one I knew I would have the most trouble setting my goal time. I had a pretty good idea of how fast I could do a 5K and ended up beating my goal by about 8 seconds, so I was pretty close there. I already have a good idea of goal times for the 10 miler and Mini, but I just wasn’t sure how fast I could do 6.27 miles. So I “unofficially” set my goal time for 51 minutes, meaning that I only told my goal to Ashley and Ronnie because I was pretty sure I couldn’t run it in an 8:12 pace and I didn’t want to have to admit defeat. I guess I should start pushing myself a little harder, because I ended up running it in 50:17, an 8:05 pace, and I was disappointed in myself at the end because I knew I could have gone faster, and definitely could have broken 50 minutes. I paced myself too slowly in the beginning and by the time I realized it, it was too late to make up for it. Oh well. Now I know for next year! I was still thrilled to have run it as fast as I did!
It was a beautiful morning for a race. The sun was shining and there was a slight breeze blowing. Can't get much better than that! It was a very scenic route and I found myself running through parts of Louisville that I’m not at all familiar with. The start and finish lines were several, several blocks away so after finding a great, free parking spot near the starting line we took advantage of the shuttle service and rode a yellow school bus back to the starting line. It worked out great and we were on the first bus back. And I can’t leave out my favorite part of the races…the free post-race food. Thank you, Panera Bread, for cinnamon crunch bagels. You truly make my race days.
I also need to throw a shout-out to my awesome mother who came up Friday after work and stayed until this afternoon so she could watch the girls this morning while I raced because Ronnie had to work today. You’re awesome, mom!!
Two weeks until the 10 miler! I ran 10 miles last week and it was pretty miserable, and I hear that the 10 miler is quite miserable since part of it is through the hilly Iroquois Park. My goal = 1 hr 25 minutes, an 8:30 pace. I’m just going to go on and throw it out there and make myself accountable!
God bless!
This race is the one I knew I would have the most trouble setting my goal time. I had a pretty good idea of how fast I could do a 5K and ended up beating my goal by about 8 seconds, so I was pretty close there. I already have a good idea of goal times for the 10 miler and Mini, but I just wasn’t sure how fast I could do 6.27 miles. So I “unofficially” set my goal time for 51 minutes, meaning that I only told my goal to Ashley and Ronnie because I was pretty sure I couldn’t run it in an 8:12 pace and I didn’t want to have to admit defeat. I guess I should start pushing myself a little harder, because I ended up running it in 50:17, an 8:05 pace, and I was disappointed in myself at the end because I knew I could have gone faster, and definitely could have broken 50 minutes. I paced myself too slowly in the beginning and by the time I realized it, it was too late to make up for it. Oh well. Now I know for next year! I was still thrilled to have run it as fast as I did!
It was a beautiful morning for a race. The sun was shining and there was a slight breeze blowing. Can't get much better than that! It was a very scenic route and I found myself running through parts of Louisville that I’m not at all familiar with. The start and finish lines were several, several blocks away so after finding a great, free parking spot near the starting line we took advantage of the shuttle service and rode a yellow school bus back to the starting line. It worked out great and we were on the first bus back. And I can’t leave out my favorite part of the races…the free post-race food. Thank you, Panera Bread, for cinnamon crunch bagels. You truly make my race days.
I also need to throw a shout-out to my awesome mother who came up Friday after work and stayed until this afternoon so she could watch the girls this morning while I raced because Ronnie had to work today. You’re awesome, mom!!
Two weeks until the 10 miler! I ran 10 miles last week and it was pretty miserable, and I hear that the 10 miler is quite miserable since part of it is through the hilly Iroquois Park. My goal = 1 hr 25 minutes, an 8:30 pace. I’m just going to go on and throw it out there and make myself accountable!
God bless!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Ronnie has a job!
I wanted to think of a more creative title for this post, but I thought I'd just make it short and sweet. It’s official, Ronnie has his first post-residency job! After completing the last month of his Emergency Medicine residency in June, 2011, he will then become the newest ER doctor at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana!
To answer the most popular question we have received, no, we are not moving to Indiana! The first time Ronnie drove from our house to the hospital it took only 15 minutes. Sweet! We plan to stay in our house until we have at least made a huge dent in Ronnie’s massive medical school loans. (And of course payment on those begin literally the day he is out of residency.) And then if we decided to buy a different house it will more than likely be around the same area we are in now. We really love the area of town we live in and it is very close to the places we most frequent (church, gym, friends' houses, Target, etc...I have to be within a few minutes of Target, hehe)
We were beginning to worry that maybe it wasn’t going to work out for us to stay in Louisville. Let me explain. Most of the hospitals in Louisville don’t hire their ER doctors, they are hired through groups who place doctors at hospitals (aka, pimp groups). There has been some shakeup in Louisville with these groups and the hospitals they cover, so getting involved with some of these groups and hospitals seemed like a dangerous move. In fact, Ronnie was having serious talks with Norton Suburban (where the girls were born!) and it looked like things were hopeful, then one of the groups lost a hospital, several veteran ER doctors lost their jobs, and Suburban hired one of those doctors. It looked like this was going to be a problem everywhere. Ronnie pursued and was pursued by other groups who were very interested in hiring him, but most of those would have required us to move, and none of those locations were very appealing for us or areas where we wanted to raise our girls. So we kept praying about it and he kept trying to make connections. The hospital where he moonlights in Corydon, Indiana wanted to hire him on full time and we were keeping that as a back-up plan. It is a fantastic, new hospital and he really enjoys working there and the people there, but it is 40 minutes from our house and not really a place where we would want to move. That was really its only downfall. He kept it as a very serious option. Then, when we thought that was going to be the only option, Ronnie got a phone call!
The ER doctors at Clark Memorial are not run by one of those groups I was talking about before, they have their own group hired on through the hospital. Many of these ER doctors are Ronnie’s attendings at U of L, who have helped train Ronnie and pay very close attention to his work in the hospital, so he was very honored that they wanted to bring him to their group. We later found out that it has been a few years since they have even hired a new doctor, and only had a position open because several of their doctors want to cut back their hours, so Ronnie was very flattered and grateful that they wanted to hire him. He took a couple of weeks to make up his mind. He was still weighing the pros and cons with Harrison County Hospital in Corydon. One night one of his attendings was working at Clark and he decided to go shadow just to see how things run at the hospital. After spending just a couple of hours there he knew it was where he was supposed to be.
Ronnie has literally been in school or training for 24 years. He graduated from high school in 1999. He completed four years in undergraduate school at Georgetown College and graduated in 2003 with his Bachelors. He took one year off before Medical School (that’s when I came into the picture!!), then spent four year in Medical School and graduated in 2008. He then began his Emergency Medicine residency which he will complete June, 2011. Time for a break!! He plans to take a few weeks off before starting his job, and hopefully we can have a little mini-vacation for just the two of us to celebrate. Woo hoo! Ronnie has worked so hard…I wish I could put into words how hard he has worked because unless you witnessed it or went through it yourself you truly can’t understand the blood, sweat and tears (literally – all three of those), plus a bazillion hours, that he has sacrificed to be where he is today. I am so proud of him and thrilled that he can finally start doing the work he knows God has called him to do!!
To answer the most popular question we have received, no, we are not moving to Indiana! The first time Ronnie drove from our house to the hospital it took only 15 minutes. Sweet! We plan to stay in our house until we have at least made a huge dent in Ronnie’s massive medical school loans. (And of course payment on those begin literally the day he is out of residency.) And then if we decided to buy a different house it will more than likely be around the same area we are in now. We really love the area of town we live in and it is very close to the places we most frequent (church, gym, friends' houses, Target, etc...I have to be within a few minutes of Target, hehe)
We were beginning to worry that maybe it wasn’t going to work out for us to stay in Louisville. Let me explain. Most of the hospitals in Louisville don’t hire their ER doctors, they are hired through groups who place doctors at hospitals (aka, pimp groups). There has been some shakeup in Louisville with these groups and the hospitals they cover, so getting involved with some of these groups and hospitals seemed like a dangerous move. In fact, Ronnie was having serious talks with Norton Suburban (where the girls were born!) and it looked like things were hopeful, then one of the groups lost a hospital, several veteran ER doctors lost their jobs, and Suburban hired one of those doctors. It looked like this was going to be a problem everywhere. Ronnie pursued and was pursued by other groups who were very interested in hiring him, but most of those would have required us to move, and none of those locations were very appealing for us or areas where we wanted to raise our girls. So we kept praying about it and he kept trying to make connections. The hospital where he moonlights in Corydon, Indiana wanted to hire him on full time and we were keeping that as a back-up plan. It is a fantastic, new hospital and he really enjoys working there and the people there, but it is 40 minutes from our house and not really a place where we would want to move. That was really its only downfall. He kept it as a very serious option. Then, when we thought that was going to be the only option, Ronnie got a phone call!
The ER doctors at Clark Memorial are not run by one of those groups I was talking about before, they have their own group hired on through the hospital. Many of these ER doctors are Ronnie’s attendings at U of L, who have helped train Ronnie and pay very close attention to his work in the hospital, so he was very honored that they wanted to bring him to their group. We later found out that it has been a few years since they have even hired a new doctor, and only had a position open because several of their doctors want to cut back their hours, so Ronnie was very flattered and grateful that they wanted to hire him. He took a couple of weeks to make up his mind. He was still weighing the pros and cons with Harrison County Hospital in Corydon. One night one of his attendings was working at Clark and he decided to go shadow just to see how things run at the hospital. After spending just a couple of hours there he knew it was where he was supposed to be.
Ronnie has literally been in school or training for 24 years. He graduated from high school in 1999. He completed four years in undergraduate school at Georgetown College and graduated in 2003 with his Bachelors. He took one year off before Medical School (that’s when I came into the picture!!), then spent four year in Medical School and graduated in 2008. He then began his Emergency Medicine residency which he will complete June, 2011. Time for a break!! He plans to take a few weeks off before starting his job, and hopefully we can have a little mini-vacation for just the two of us to celebrate. Woo hoo! Ronnie has worked so hard…I wish I could put into words how hard he has worked because unless you witnessed it or went through it yourself you truly can’t understand the blood, sweat and tears (literally – all three of those), plus a bazillion hours, that he has sacrificed to be where he is today. I am so proud of him and thrilled that he can finally start doing the work he knows God has called him to do!!
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