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Stolen Joy: A Pitfall of Comparison

Emily Vacek has not always bloomed where she was planted. But through the hard and life of endless transitions as a fellows wife, she has grown in wisdom. I just love how open Emily is with her story and how she puts words to the comparison struggle we all face at one...

Forgiven

Our local Side by Side chapter is reading through Messy Beautiful Friendship by Christine Hoover. Reading a book on female, adult friendship has been the perfect way to start off a new school year where we are cultivating new friendships and deepening others with...

Embracing The Loneliness of Medical Wife Life

Our guest post is has come at the perfect time for me personally. Tom is in his last month of rotations before four major board exams. Yes, FOUR! Loneliness is definitely felt during this time. Let me introduce you to Meredith, a pediatric nurse turned stay at home...

Ways I Survived Medical School and Residency as a Medical Spouse

Meet my friend and mentor Caroline Fausel, blogger of yummy clean food recipes at OliveYouWhole.com. We met through a mutual friend and our love for clean living inside and out. She is the wife to Chaz who completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation...

Renovation, Restoration, and Remodeling our First Home

After endless hours of house searching, we finally were under contract! I wrote a little bit about all our previous moves and why as a first-year medical student my husband and I decided to purchase rather than rent a home on my very first blog post A Happy Life of...

Love in the Midst: Reflections after a Horrible Car Accident

I received the worst phone call of my life, from my husband’s cell phone. “Where are you?” asked the voice of the attending doctor that Tom had just started working with that day. “I’m out walking the babies!” I cheerfully replied...