Thoughts and Blessings

Hello Friends. I went to a site called www.daytrippingmom.com and found lots of awesome things to do for Spring break. We went to the La Brea Tar Pits, and today we went to the Muth Interpretive center in Newport Back Bay. It was incredibly fun, and had we not been seriously hungry, we would have stayed longer. It is a gem of a place.

Family news. Dave is still not quite working. Kati is still not quite working. However, things are going well.

I just found out that I got the Externship I have been gunning for at Talbert Medical, my very own clinic in Anaheim. I start sometime next week. There is also something at a police station, too. That sounds fun. (I really mean that)

Soon after all of this, I can apply for a job somewhere. It turns out that there are a lot of Mormon people in high places in Medicine.

My kids are going through a defiant phase. Today, I was with friends, and all 4 of them were just really negative, trash talking each other, one upping each other. I remember reading that when boys turn around 10 they have a large testosterone surge. One is almost 10, the others are 8 and 9. Is that true? I need to do some research.

Perhaps I am grumpy at home to them and they then are grumpy to each other. I hate the fighting and they fight all the time. Every moment of interaction is one boy trying to out-do the other. Every moment is one boy trying to scare or "get" the other. It is exhausting. I was an only child. I fought with my mom. Maybe I need to figure out how to be more of an ally to my individual boys.

I am inspired to write!

Hello family and friends. I watched with sadness as Houston was deluged last night, hoping our good friends, The Calders, would not have to be evacuated. I still don't know what happened to them, but at least because they blog, I had some idea that they are OK. Then I checked out the new addition to our extended family, Evyta & Erick's new baby, Evrick Jaden, and I was hooked on Blogspot. So this is how I will keep everyone up to date from now on.