Mom. Student. Wife. Doctor?

Being as I am still working on my prerequisites for Chiropractic school, I really don’t have the opportunity much to be around all the chiropractic people I so enjoy. When I was invited to accompany a friend of mine to a seminar in St. Louis, I was really excited at the prospect. I was a little leery about leaving the kids and my husband at home. My husband and I are kindred spirits and although he is not a Chiropractor, he shares my enthusiasm about chiropractic and my love of being around it. Because I am a student, I pay a minimal amount to attend the seminar, and since it is a philosophy seminar, I can bring my husband along, if I can find someone to leave the kids with. I have been reviewing it over and over again in my mind; however, I will not leave my kids in Oklahoma, while I am in St. Louis that is just not me. I want to go, but I don’t want to drag my husband along, and then make him watch the kids all weekend that just wouldn’t be fair. So, I finally decided to contact my friend, and she said that the seminar will have child care available right there in the hotel that we will be attending the seminar at. She said that her older daughter will be helping out with the child care there and that the cost for it is only $10.00 a day per child.

This is great! Now my husband and I can attend the seminar together this summer without worry. I know we will have a great time and chiropractic philosophy really keeps me focused on my goals and gets me really pumped up. This will be just what we need. I think I might add an extra day or two onto our trip so we can take in some of the sights in St. Louis, and also take the kids to the zoo there, which is absolutely free. All you have to do is pay for parking which I think is about $5 and that is it. I have also arranged for her daughter to watch the kids one night for us, so we can go downtown for a grown ups night out with my friend and her husband. There is a really great restaurant there that my friend has been dying to take me to. I found some really inexpensive accommodations nearby as the hotel that the seminar will be in is quite expensive. My friend Pat offered that I could stay with her while I am there, but I know that with the kids that will be a little much and since the seminar and child care are so cheap and we will drive to St. Louis, I will gladly pay for a hotel room for us all. It will be a real treat to get away and get really pumped up on a great philosophy weekend and squeeze in a little family time as well.