One Month!

Without my realizing it, the one month mark has passed. I have officially survived the first month of this 18 month program, and I am really enjoying it! Like with any life-changing decision, I had my doubts about whether or not I was crazy to try to do this, but as of the one month mark, I am loving it! With the 24 hour shifts, the classes, the hours of laundry, the homework, the schedule of appointment after appointment, the faces showing up ringing the doorbell in the middle of the night, the bleaching, bleaching, and more bleaching...with all this, I've been seeing the hand of God in the heartbeat of every baby, in the glimmer of joy in the eyes of a mother who hears her baby's first cry, the breath of fresh air when stepping out to do laundry. I have the best job in the world. I get to be in the room the moment new life is born. I get to see women become mothers, and watch as love gives birth to life. I am privileged. I am blessed.