SOLD!!!

It is strange to wake up one morning and there is a SOLD sign in front of your house! We are very happy that our house has sold so quickly! We had a working contract exactly one week after they put up the FOR SALE sign! One week!!! Here we were worried that it may not sell and we would have to move to Chicago!

We are closing during the middle of December. Anyone want houseguests for 3 weeks?!?! Actually, we are going to move in with Hannah's grandfather for a few weeks until we move to Chicago after the holidays. The movers are going to take our stuff and store it until we are in Chicago. It is really happening! Please keep up in your thoughts as we venture on this journey. And think of me when I am freezing my butt off walking to school!!!

Friends

"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."

This post is dedicated to my dear friends from high school, good ol' Johnny O (John Overton Comprehensive High School). There are 10 of us who still keep in touch from time to time. We are spread out all across the USA even as far as California! Most of us are married, some have families, some have jobs while others are still full-time students. We are all different but share a common bond of friendship. We'll make new friends, move farther away, and drift apart but I'll always remember each and every one of you. I hope you girls know how much our friendship means to me.

Just as we are friends, I hope our kids will also be friends. My friends and fellow mommy.

Chicago, here we come!

Ok, so it is final and definite. We are moving to Chicago! Some of you are probably wondering, why we are moving so let me get you up to date. As you may know I am in medical school but for the last 3 years I have been doing research at St Jude Children's Research Hospital toward my PhD degree. When I finish with ALL my education, I hope to have both my MD and my PhD. Ultimately, I would like to be a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. I want to take care of patients and do research that will help my patients. Anyway, in May my PhD advisor was recruited to the University of Chicago to head up the Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (yes, my future career field). He wanted me to go to Chicago to finish my research and my medical school. After several L-O-N-G and agonizing months, everything has worked out to where I can go there to finish my research and then finish my 3rd and 4th years of medical school at one of the top medical schools in the US (13th to be exact).

So why go to Chicago? Well, for one it has been Tim's goal to get the heck out of Memphis as quickly as possible and NEVER to return. Secondly, how can I pass up the opportunity to go to a top notch medical school. I didn't get in Vandy but I sure can 't refuse the opportunity to finish my MD degree from the University of Chicago! Finally, I am getting support for the last 2 years of medical school, meaning my medical school is paid for! Yes, I won't have to pay for my last 2 years of medical school! How could I refuse that?! Lucky for me, I truly have the best husband who supports me 100% to make this move.

We will be in Chicago in the new year. A perfect time to move to the Windy City, no doubt. I am not looking forward to the winter at all! And everyone has warned me about that first winter! Any advice?