25 weeks
It's a long, loooooong time to be away from home, to be absent from my kids' day to day lives, to miss out on school and social activities, to not sleep in my own bed for more than a night or two at a time. I have a week and a half left here (provided someone delivers before the end of next week!) and then this part is over! I wish I knew for sure what was coming next but I don't, everything is in limbo.
I need to apply for a restricted license, wrap up the paperwork for the IMPP so that my supervising midwife can identify what my restrictions may be (such as more IV's or suturing, more hospital births, inductions etc). Once that is done, I can apply for the job and then hopefully I'll know whether or not I'll be hired into one of the two temporary/term positions.
I looked at a couple of rental properties today and if/when I get hired we're going to rent something as soon as we can. If I'm working full time we need to be able to all be together as a family, or at the very least have the girls here with me some of the time, and we just can't do that here. As much as I would like to sign a lease to move in April, I sure can't do that until I have been hired and have an official start date. So, more limbo. And since I don't want to move the girls to a new school for the last 2 months of the school year, we'll have two residences for a while. Thinking about what we'll need to move here right away (dishes, furniture etc) and what we'll need to keep back home for them to continue to function and be comfortable......it's weird. It feels kind of like we're separating and dividing up our belongings, it's just an odd, icky feeling even though I know that it's only temporary.
Now, to do some domestics here and go through some paperwork to document my clinical numbers for the IMPP. It's been a long year - fretting about applying to the IMPP, preparing for the entrance OSCEs and exams in June, studying in the summer and preparing my family for my 6 month absence, doing 3 months in Toronto and then 3 months here......oooohhh, I'm ready for time to rest and recover before work begins.
I need to apply for a restricted license, wrap up the paperwork for the IMPP so that my supervising midwife can identify what my restrictions may be (such as more IV's or suturing, more hospital births, inductions etc). Once that is done, I can apply for the job and then hopefully I'll know whether or not I'll be hired into one of the two temporary/term positions.
I looked at a couple of rental properties today and if/when I get hired we're going to rent something as soon as we can. If I'm working full time we need to be able to all be together as a family, or at the very least have the girls here with me some of the time, and we just can't do that here. As much as I would like to sign a lease to move in April, I sure can't do that until I have been hired and have an official start date. So, more limbo. And since I don't want to move the girls to a new school for the last 2 months of the school year, we'll have two residences for a while. Thinking about what we'll need to move here right away (dishes, furniture etc) and what we'll need to keep back home for them to continue to function and be comfortable......it's weird. It feels kind of like we're separating and dividing up our belongings, it's just an odd, icky feeling even though I know that it's only temporary.
Now, to do some domestics here and go through some paperwork to document my clinical numbers for the IMPP. It's been a long year - fretting about applying to the IMPP, preparing for the entrance OSCEs and exams in June, studying in the summer and preparing my family for my 6 month absence, doing 3 months in Toronto and then 3 months here......oooohhh, I'm ready for time to rest and recover before work begins.