18 months of terror

Glynn and I had a very productive Midwest Dental Conference. We were able to take time and scout locations in Lee's Summit for our dental practice, meet with bankers, commercial real estate agents, supply companies, designers, etc. etc. etc.


It is THRILLING. And terrifying. I think that we will have a hard time sleeping for the next 18 months as the process evolves. We've both been in the comfort zone of the military for so long now that striking out on our own is scary. I know it seems funny that active duty service is a "comfort zone" what with the threat of deployment always hanging over our head, but we are one of the few people these days that have a steady job and paycheck. It doesn't matter if our patients show up or not, we still get paid.


For 18 more months.


Then we have to start caring.


We've been discussing practice name and logo, design concept, and location, location, location recently. We've absolutely settled on Lee's Summit to open up, but our exact location is still to be determined. It depends on what our real estate agent can find for us and what we want to be located by. We were also scoping out houses and found an area we really liked. I think it's called Lakewood. (You know Glynn, anything near the water, right?)


On another note, I got the kids school pictures this morning, and they are absolutely beautiful! (naturally) I cannot believe that they are 3 and 2 and this is the first real set of professional pictures we've ever had of them. There just wasn't opportunity in Japan to do such a thing. I am trying to figure out how to show them to you from the Lifetouch link but I can't figure it out. Oh well, I'll be sending them in the mail anyway. We got individual pictures as well as some with them together. Those kids are the cutest things EVER! I can't even begin to describe how great these pictures are, except that their school director told me they should both be models for the photography company.


Yes, I'm bragging. I have officially become that mom. I've been shoving them in people's faces all day. I don't care. I have to share their beauty with the world. It's my obligation.


6 days and counting down until my surgery! I will be so relieved to have this over and done with. I just have to keep the kids from jumping on me while I recover. That's where the grandmas come in. :) It's okay, because they will be so excited to see Grandma and Nana that I won't exist anyway. At least that's what I'm counting on.

Mom is coming up this Saturday to help me prepare. Freezing meals, cleaning house, etc. I hate hate HATE having a messy house so if we start off with it clean, it should be easier to maintain while I am out of commission. I may have to start making "please help me" lists for Megan too.
While we were out of town, she followed my to-do list very well so I think we'll start making it a habit now. Poor girl has no idea what's coming. :)


Well, I'm about out of deep thoughts for this morning and I really should get back to this report I have due at work. Deadlines, to me, are just more of a suggestion, really. But tell that to my boss. He doesn't quite see it that way. (I'm sure I won't either, in 18 more months. Ugh).

Off to bury my head in bureaucratic bullshit.....