{Let the FUN begin}

Ryan started night float on Sunday night and will be working nights for the next 6 weeks. It is usually a 3 month long rotation but Ryan's class opted to split it into two 6-week blocks to manage it a little better. It is a really FUN (read hard) rotation, or so I hear!! Anyway, the kids aren't usually up when Daddy leaves for work, hardly anyone would want to be up that early. So when it came time for Dad to leave for work Sunday night the kids were kinda funny about it. Meysa I think told him that she loved him like honestly 15 times and reassured him that she would see him the next night. I asked Ryan if he was planning on being gone for awhile and he said NO but you would think it with the way the kids were acting. They followed him to the door and gave more hugs and kisses and then stood at the window until his car was no longer in sight. As I sat watching this happen, I couldn't help but think I need a picture. I want to remember in 15 years what my kids were like when we were at this point in our lives. Daddy leaving, the kids sappy and clingy. I know it won't always be the same and even though there are hard things about Ryan being in residency and gone a lot, as a whole it has been a wonderful experience for our family. I feel like I "watch" my life a lot these days conscience that it won't always be so simple. My kids will get older and other FUN stages will be upon our family. I am really thankful for the power of pictures. They can freeze time for a second and allow us to remember the small things that we tend to forget. Boy I sound all sentimental. Maybe because I turned another year older today. Tell me 31 will be FUN ok?!!