Life is busy

My big boy on the move!

Life is so busy! Ever since Wes started school a month ago, and I started back to work, I feel like we have lost so much contact with people. I am missing all the relationships that were growing with all my "mom" friends. I miss the stay at home Mom perks, for example: Coffee dates, play groups, sleeping in and snuggling with Cam, meal planning (I know I can still do this, but I haven't made it a priority), going on walks, lunch dates, blogging, Bible study with Wes, and taking never ending pictures of my sweet boy. I know I can still do most of these things if I prioritize my time a lot better, but I have less motivation lately. I am only working 4 days a week, yet I feel like I rarely have time at home. I know this is just a season in our life, and in 2 and a half years Wes will be completely done with school and I will never have to work again! It will be so wonderful for the first time in my life to not be the one who we rely on for income. I have been working since I was 15 and taking time off when Camden was born was the best 7 months of my life :) I have always known that this is how our life would be for a few years since Wes would be in school for a long time. I am so proud of him, and I wouldn't want him to be doing anything else! I am so thankful that he works so hard to do well in school. I guess as a wife of a med student you sometimes wish you could just fast forward a few years and get to the part when they actually start getting paid for all their endless hours of work.
This week has been especially hard because Wes had 3 exams, and he has another one on Monday. Typically they have 1 exam a week and sometimes a week off. This just happened to be a crazy week and we are both definitely feeling it. On top of the rough week, Camden has been throwing us for a loop also. He is learning so many new things that he wakes himself up like around 3:30 or 4 every morning attempting to crawl in his sleep. This is wearing me out! I get up with him and try to console him back to sleep, but nothing works. I end up feeding him and finally putting him back down. By the time I get back in bed, Wes gets up to get to school extra early to study. He spends the entire day at school, gets home around 6:30 and helps me get Cam ready for bed, then we eat dinner and chat a little bit, but by then I am very tired! I have been going to sleep about 9 or 9:30, and Wes stays up well past midnight studying his night away. So crazy!
Anyways, like I said, this is just a season, and I know we will make it through. I definitely appreciate my husband and I am so excited about our future together. I know that weeks like these are just baby steps to achieve our ultimate goal of him becoming a doctor. Thankfully after Monday he has a week or two of no exams, so that means I will get to see him more, spend more quality time together, and hopefully throw in a date night or two :)

On another note, I am excited for it to finally be the fall season, and I am hoping that we can plan some fun things to do as a family of three this year! Pumpkin patches, making yummy fall food, going to the park in the cooler weather, and dressing Camden up for his first Harvest Festival at church.
We are so blessed and I am so thankful for where we are in our lives. I hope this didn't sound like I was complaining, it was just what was on my heart today.

I will leave you with a few fun Cam pictures :)

Baby proofing is the new project in our house now that Camden is on the move!

I found him sleeping like this during his nap, I always slept like this when I was a baby!