HO2-- WEEK 38

One of the doughnuts we baked with the girls at youth group this week

This week...

-- T was in Kansas City studying all-day all-night for one of the licenses required by his new job. He's been a champ devoting so much time with his "nose in the book" like my sister would say. There isn't an official test date yet - but hopefully he will be done in the next couple weeks!

-- I was able to sneak over to Holdrege one evening after work for the Phelps County Development Corporation annual dinner - with featured speaker Tom Osborne! It was a short visit (of course I drove by the soon-to-be-ours home!) but it was a good evening of networking and getting to know a few of my future co-workers better (and good food!). I even happened to meet the Mayor!
-- for the first time in my medical career I caught one of those utterly miserable head colds from Peds clinic! It's almost a given that you'll fall ill with something while rotating with pediatrics (I have been seeing 30+ sick kids daily!) but this is the first time in 5? 6? pediatric rotations it's happened to me. I guess I'm not super-human! Thankfully the worst of it landed on a weekend so I only had to suffer through one call-night before a few days to just relax.

-- house update: not much new news to report this week! We completed a few less-glamorous things like signing up for homeowner's insurance.. nothing too exciting. Hopefully (*fingers crossed*) there won't be any more "exciting" news until we close March 1st!

xo,

Krista

HO2-- WEEK 37

This was almost some other owner's guest bathroom!

This week...

-- T continues to spend the majority of the day studying for his licenses for this new job. He's definitely sick of studying but is doing a great job sticking with it! He is hoping another strong week or two before he can take the exam and be done!
-- I started a new rotation working with the pediatricians in-town. I'm working with them in their clinic but it's definitely busy days due to cold/flu/norovirus season! Pediatrics was my first love so this will be an enjoyable month for me.
-- house update: we came very close to having to walk away from the house this week when the appraisal came in below our offer (like, tens-of-thousands below...). Unfortunately, being a small town, there were not the best recent comps (because the price-per-sq-foot of our home was already very reasonable!).   Thankfully, it worked out in our favor, because the seller accepted the appraised value in exchange for us paying their closing costs. It  will work out to be a savings for us over the life of the mortgage. Crisis adverted! (And for those that have asked, I promise we will post more pictures of the house once it's officially ours and I can take some better pictures..)

xo,
Krista