Peeping Tom

So today I attended a birth and the L&D room had a window which looked out on the Emergency Room parking lot - more specifically, where the ambulances unload their patients. Out of curiosity, I watched one ambulance unload its patient: a healthy-looking, well-dressed young man. At least, he looked healthy and well-dressed from the 4th floor.

He was covered with a sheet and as the EMTs were pushing his stretcher, he moved the sheet down. The EMT next to him snapped it back to its original position. The patient moved it down again. Without bothering to even glance at him, the EMT snapped it right back. This happened two more times before the patient finally gave up.

I have no clue what was actually happening, but from the 4th floor, it was hilarious!

Important Announcement!

Hi Everyone!

I have an important announcement which I posted here . Go check it out! :-D I'm about to become a certified doula (yippee!)

I also found out that I should hear from Newlife this weekend or next week. I'm so nervous/excited! I've been praying, "Lord, whatever Your will is, but please let it be my will in this instance!" This waiting process has definitely been a good growing process for my faith. But hey, no pain, no gain.

Ok, now I have to get back to my normal life...

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody! I can't believe it's 2012!

Last night, Nathan and I decided to stay up and watch the ball drop in Times Square. To pass the time, we watched a few movies. Around 11:15pm, the movies ended and we decided to see if we could find a TV station showing the festivities in Times Square. After searching through several channels, we found one but it was focusing on Lady Gaga, so we switched the channel. The next channel was reporters talking about what was going on in the square and interviewing people. We decided to stay on that channel since it was rather interesting. We figured that all channels would show the ball drop. We were wrong.

At midnight, instead of showing the ball drop, the station showed an obnoxious female reporter kissing a random police officer. Nathan and I were so furious! Needless to say, we turned the TV off. We were both very disappointed.

I thought it would be appropriate to give a quick overview of the notable stuff that happened in 2011 to our family:

• I turned 16 in January and got my license
• Joy Anna was born at home into Dad and my arms in early March
• Promise, Isaac, and Grace decided that chapter books are cool and interesting
• I got into a car accident...
• Nathan and I almost experienced a tornado, we could see where it was and it was close 
• I got to help photograph a wedding
• We went to the beach
• Nathan, Dad, and I went and watched Captain America in the middle of Hurricane Irene and the movie theater lost power just at the climax...
• Nathan and I finished our first year of Gileskirk (a very intensive history curriculum)
• Grandma Wight and Aunt Tara and Barbara came and visited
• Dad had the brilliant idea to pick Grace up and playfully shake her back and forth while she was shaking the milk. Do I need to detail how messy the kitchen was after that? We were cleaning spilt milk for a while and everyone had to pitch in...
• Nathan took Driver's Ed and got his permit
• Joshua became Dad's little buddy
• Nathan, Dad, and Isaac played a bunch of hockey!
• Our family made a bunch of movies (I think this year held the record for the most movies good enough to put on youtube.)
• I became a doula and have attended a grand total of 12 births!
• Rising Dawn Services was started
• This blog was started ;-D
• Nathan, Dad, and I read the Hunger Games series :-D
• Joy Anna learned to crawl
• I missed Promise's birthday because I was at a birth
• I applied to Newlife International School of Midwifery *scary*
• Nathan started animating a Lego movie of The Peleg Chronicles 
• The whole family went to a hockey game and all got Carolina Hurricanes' jerseys
• I got the DSLR I've been wanting!
• We beat our usual record of how often we've gone out to eat. We've eaten out quite a bit this year.

There's lots more, but it would take a while to detail it all. I'm really excited that it's 2012 since I, at least, will probably have a big year. In May (May 12, to be exact), I'll graduate high school. After that, I'll probably go to the Philippines and become a midwife (I just need to get accepted first). I'm so excited! I guess when I leave this summer, I'll have to give this blog to Nathan, since he'll be around to know what's going on in Wilson-dom, and I'll have to get another blog about my time in the Philippines. 

Anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!

39 Hours

Friday and Saturday, I was awake for 39 hours. No kidding. I woke up around 6:30am Friday and didn't go to bed until 9:30 Saturday night. I was at a birth all Friday night and when I got home, around 7:30am, I had to eat breakfast, shower, and go help serve food at a wedding. I lasted until 4:00, when I was positive I was going to pass out (I hadn't really eaten a meal in 24 hours, and hadn't slept in 30 hours), I took a break and sat in the car, waiting for Nathan to finish up. When he was done, I still felt dizzy, so he drove me home *scary* and I had to babysit... It felt like the day (ok, two days) would never end!

However, when I got ready for bed, I looked in the mirror for the first time in two days and thought, "Wow! I look great for being awake for 39 hours! I'm going to take a picture of myself and see if anyone can guess by looking how long I've been awake.

I don't know what I was thinking. I looked at the pictures today and I look tired... :-D Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of seeing them.

Yah, I'm totally dead in this one... :-D

Pressure...

...When your two doula clients, whose due dates are several weeks apart, are possibly in early labor at the same time...