I've been to several midwifery/birthy conferences over the years and each time I've been identified as a student midwife, and a distance-educated student at that.  There's always been a hint (or a blast!) of disrespect and dismissal when people learned that I was a distance education midwifery student.  This weekend I'm attending a student ( Read more... )

Today is my graduation day.  As I type this, my school is hosting their annual Graduation gala in Salt Lake City and one of my good friends is there, texting me.  She burst into tears when they announced my name, as did the former president of the school (who had a baby at the same time Abby was born).  I know they are proud of me but it seems so ( Read more... )

It's Sunday; I would normally be doing some scrapbooking while the laundry tumbles around in the machines, but my basement is still a total wreck, my scrapbook stuff inaccessible, and the laundry is all caught up.

Jack is back to work today so I can't finish the few things that need to be done in the basement.  It takes two of us to move my desk ( Read more... )