I mentioned awhile back that we were deliberating over our residency program choices, and last weekend we finally hashed it all out and submitted our ranking!

So here it goes:

Nashville
Columbia, SC
Birmingham
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Charlottesville, VA
Augusta, GA
Dallas
Houston

You'll notice that this list is way different from the one before. The Chattanooga and Augusta programs were just not really good enough, so they went lower on the rankings. St. Louis and Charlottesville were much better programs than I gave them credit for, so up higher they went.

Stu feels that the Nashville program (at Vanderbilt) is very competitive and so he probably won't get in there, but we went ahead and ranked it first anyway. So, we may end up with our 2nd or 3rd choice, and we feel that both would be awesome.

Match Day is a little later than I realized--it's on March 19th this year. So it's still one month away before we find out where we'll be! Be praying that it all works out for the best! :-)

I honestly don't see how women can work full-time and take care of a baby. This is hard work. Maybe many working moms have a stronger desire to work and can organize a schedule way better than I can. I'm just not cut out for this. I can barely find the time to make dinner more than twice a week, let alone blog. (And my nights to cook are currently Saturday and Sunday.)

At least I'm having the time of my life being a mother. Remind me to post pictures sometime of my now 4-month-old and 12-and-a-half pound child. She's growing too fast. Blogging is still going to be light until I retire from the working world in May, but I will post our final residency programs decisions and such sometime in the next few days.