My husband, My hero

Rick's been working in the Emergency Room for about 3 weeks now and I just can't tell you how proud I am of him. When he comes home telling me the things that he saw or did during the day, I sit in amazement. I've always been 1000 miles away from him while he does this kind of thing. Sometimes I look at him and just say, "Really? YOU did that?" It's hard for me to picture my husband starting an IV in the head of an infant. Or removing debris from the charred skin of a burn victim. But he does it everyday... and he's good at it. The hospital seems VERY happy to have him. They've offered him a position doing shift work and he took it. He's been voluntarily working 10 and 11 hour days, 5 days a week. This way he'll work 12 hour shifts, and have days off during the week. It doesn't change anything as far as the Army is concerned. They can still pull him out at the drop of a hat. But at least he's happy where he's at for now. My prayer is that somehow he'd be allowed to go Voluntary Active Duty and hold his position in the ER here - either until he deploys, or just skipping deployment all together. We're just waiting for God to reveal to us what He's going to do. But him holding this position in the ER would definitely be the prayer of my heart. Today was his first 12 hour shift. He'll get home after 7pm tonight. But he's off Fri-Sat-Sun and I can't wait! I haven't seen much of him lately.

I'm hoping this weekend to figure out how to post pictures to this blog and I'll share some pictures that I took of the kids at the Pumpkin Patch last week.

We're all doing ok. Joey's got a runny nose and my lupus is bothering me today - but I think it's just the cold weather. One day it's warm and the next day it's freezing. Orders for Hawaii sound better and better!!