Fingers Crossed

A couple of important orders of business to kick off this post:

1. Happy birthday Sue!  Today is Sam's mom's birthday, and I hope she is having a great day even though we couldn't be there to celebrate with her.
2. Also, happy Spring forward!  I am not looking forward to the next few weeks of dark mornings of wanting nothing more to sleep in another hour or two.  Hopefully the longer days will be here soon and it won't be so depressing to get out of bed. 
3. Thank you to Carrie for a wonderfully relaxing and rejuvenating girls night out in Long Beach last night.  Our hotel room was perfect, the comedy club was a much needed barrel of laughs, and it was so great to get away from the med school/match insanity for a little bit.

Tomorrow Sam finds out if he successfully matched to a residency program.  If he doesn’t match outright, he’ll have the option of taking a year off to do additional research and away-rotations, or "scrambling” which means contacting any ortho programs with open spots to get himself accepted into their program.  Nether of these are particularly great options so I hope and pray, for the sake of our sanity, he makes it this year.  Whether you are a spiritual person or not, it wouldn't hurt to give a shout out to whatever higher power you believe in on Sam's behalf tonight.