New Addition

Great news Folks. We have a new member of our family to announce. Her name is Rosa, she's a 9 week old kitten. She looks just like Boofy, but in miniature. They weren't really planning to get another kitten but on of the MA's in Abby's office had some kitties move into her barn and they decided to keep this one so it didn't have to go to the shelter. It's been a great decision so far.

Except that she's still on quarantine because technically she was a stray and they want to make sure she's healthy and doesn't have any diseases that could infect Boofy or me.

I'll write more and give you more pictures as I can.

Catching up

Hmmm. I don't know what to say it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything. I'll do a quick re-cap of the last 8 months- ugh.

November- Abby's travling slowed down and things returned to a little more normal.

Around Thanksgiving time we moved up to Nana Frances and Papa Dave's house while Abby was working at the clinic in Kingfield. It was a great time because she got to work with the great people from Kingfield and have lunch with Grammie, Grandpa and Nana everyday. This lasted until Christmas time.

In January, we moved back to Carmel- phew that was a nice return to normal. Then I had to go back to Nana & Papa's house for 3 weeks while Abby & Ethan went with Papa Jim to Big Sky Montana to go skiing- I wish I could have gone because I heard there was a little puppy out there- I love puppies.

February was pretty normal.

March started normal until Abby left for 3 weeks. She went on this life-saving-trip- and left ME HERE! Ugh. Anyway- she was in Nicaragua for 1 week and El Salvador for 2 more weeks. I stayed home with Daddy & Boofy. She finally came back in the beginning of April. April was pretty normal- except Abby worked at night (in the ER) and was sick during the day. I felt bad for her, but she survived.

That brings us to May- which was great. Abby stayed home most days- hooray. She peeled all the blasted pink flowers off the walls and in 3 days time she and Grandma Julie painted every horizontal and vertical surface in the whole house. I can't believe how hard they worked- well past 8 every day. It's a much nicer place now- no more flowers and no more pink.

The last of May Abby & Ethan went to Arizona. Technically, Ethan went for a work conference in Scottsdale. But they went out earlier- and left me with Nana & Papa, who left me with Andrea & Bill. They went to Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, and Sedona before going to the conference. Apparently, it was a great trip- but I wouldn't know because I DIDN'T get to GO!

This brings us to June. The first week of June we stayed at Little Sebago- I love camp! Abby's friends Gretchen and Denis stayed with us for a couple days- they have a little human too, Pedie who's very cute. Abby had dub graduation stuff to do before the big day on Saturday June 6.

After that we came back up home. There were two really relaxing weeks before the madness began again. This week Abby started learning lots of things she needs to know for residency.

She is specializing in Family Practice at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor Maine. So far, she really likes the other 8 interns (first year residents). She has one more week of orientation- mostly learning about the clinic. Then the next week - the first full week in July- she'll be starting real doctoring and patient care. Her first rotations are Opthalmology and Orthopedic surgery, followed by Obstetrics.