Our Time To Dream

The medical student life isn't always easy. Randy is gone a lot, and I'm on my own a lot. It can be frustrating and stressful for both of us. And on the outside, it may look like I have an insensitive husband that puts his studies before his family.

But here's the reality: We have big dreams. Radiology isn't easy to get into, and Randy needs to study more than the average bear to keep up. There are also lots of hoops to jump through and ladders to climb to get to the next step....residency. At some point you need to pay the debt...do you want to work hard now, to get the sweet family lifestyle later? Or do you want to play now, and have to work long hours for the rest of your life?

So we relish the mini-moments we have as a family, and hang on tight through the rough spots. When Randy comes home each night, we sneak into the boys' bedrooms to give one last goodnight kiss to our sweet, sleeping babies. We make sure to have family prayer everyday and family night each week. We have dinner at a nicely set table each evening and share the funny things that happened to us that day. We muddle through the poopy diapers, the tantrums, and the colicky evenings, with silliness. We share our hopes, our worries, our accomplishments, our failures. We imagine what our house will be like, where we'll live, what vacations we'd like to take, the "things" we'd like to buy. We talk about our boys and the things we need to teach them. We give lots of loves and hugs an kisses.

Randy is teaching our boys to be real men, who'll work hard to provide for their families. We make lots of sacrifices now so that Randy will have a job that he loves, so that I can stay home with our kidlets, and so that our children will have a good life. This is our time to dream of the beautiful future ahead of us.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.