I passed my board exam!

Hello ladies and gent's,

I am officially a Lactation Consultant! I found out this morning at work that I passed the IBLCE boards!

I am now just waiting to hear back from my boss that I have a PRN position at the hospital!!!

Now time to celebrate!

Rachel :)

Everything about fall

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have past by quickly...it helped being in the choir. Rabbi Holzman and I are back on for my conversion, and I will be going to the Mikvah (ritual bath) this November.

Life for me felt like I have been in limbo since I took the IBLCE exam, and finally it's all coming back together, we find out about our results in 10 days...October 28th!

I had my interview for a PRN Lactation Consultant position last Thursday, I have worked my butt off since I took this exam to really show my colleagues that I am made to be there. I have kept good relationships with my mentors, and I think all I really have to depend on to get this job is by passing my exam. I also got offered a position in Childbirth Education at Sibley to teach the prenatal breastfeeding class. Sunday I taught at the Ritz Carlton for our Childbirth Educ. Spa weekend. Loved it! And it was my first time teaching, this will be such a great little added extra to my week.

Amazing view from the 24th floor

yummy dessert bar

I would love to be able to afford to travel and stay in amazing places that offer food included :)

It was luxurious while it lasted

Anthropologie

Oh how I have a love/hate relationship with Anthropologie. I love their clothes but hate the hike in prices. Today I spent the day enjoying my day off and stopped by Anthro for some fall fashion.

I tried on a comfy long sleeve blue knit top, love it, price was $68, OMG is that crazy? I couldn't do it, even for how much I loved it!

I did end up spending $390 on 4 items, 4 items, you heard me yikes! I knew I would have to be return half of it tomorrow,  and I figured I'd let Mr. B do the choosing. I ended up keeping mustard skinny chinos, and a cream poncho sweater....LOVE them.

I can not wait till the air cools off a bit. I usually keep holding on to my last bit of warm weather, but this year I can't wait to feel the crisp coolness, but still be able to wear sandals, all I want is to wear long sleeves or mix in my new sweater.

Next summer I know I want to buy a pair of Salt Water sandals.

source: the hipster mom

I Love my Mom!

The best thing about being out of the "Roost" is my new best relationship with my Mom. She's fun, adventerous, full of wisdom and guidance. The best person to go to when feeling like you need some good advice on relationships and advice. With my newly married status, she has definatly come in handy to calm my nerves.

The best gift to life is having a mother daughter relationship, because you will always have a friend.

She recently gave me the best advice:

"Rachel whenever you feel sensitive over something, you will easily get defensive if Mr. B doesn't see where you are coming from. Men are different they are so unlike women when it comes to emotions. He's not your savior, just learn to approach things differently so he can understand your feelings without fighting."

This is the BEST.

I love you Mom.

I'm glad you and Dad are back in town from vacation!

Friday we went on a double date into Clarendon, VA. A fun town full of hip restaurants and bars, a few shops, bakeries. We decided to eat at Liberty Tavern, one our recent favorites, Mom and Dad loved the atmosphere second best to their food!

4 day weekend

Wednesday I spent most of the day cooking lunch to cater for a party to show how much we appreciated our fellow LC's hard work, and wish her a farewell going into her new job at a different hospital. I made a wonderful menu...

Thursday morning, I felt like horrible. The night before my throat was achy, my ears hurt, nose clogged. I bit my tongue and headed into the hospital any way. Then I burned my tongue on the hot mint tea I got to soothe my throat. I ended up going to employee health, did a rapid strep test (that took forever to find out the results of negative), and an approval of "You need to go home." It's so easy for them to say this, yes it was awkward seeing patients, but it's hard to get coverage mid August. When everyone is on vacation or ready for fall to begin and don't want to cover more shifts. I enjoy helping out and working more to cover the department when others are on vacation. Although I missed my well cooked meal, and coworkers that came to visit. I was happy to go back to bed. 

Today rolled through, this morning I went to the Doctor, even though I feel horrible, I still had to make dinner. I made a wonderful crock pot chicken, then used the bones after for bone broth.

I waited till Mr. B got home, which he surprisingly left work early at 2pm. But I was napping, we enjoyed a nice quiet dinner by candle light and played 2 games of 500 Rummy, then he got to watch his preseason Redskins game while I searched the internet. 

The most exciting thing that happened this week is that the RN told me I had lost 8lbs in 6 weeks. I hadn't done anything special, I'm getting back into my routine at the gym (taking the IBLCE exam has really knocked me off of my schedule). But now I'm motivated and really happy at this good news, and feeling good.

So instead of a two day weekend, even though I'm sick still, I've enjoyed my well needed rest.

I survived

July 25th, 2011 has been quite the eventful day.

First I took my IBLCE exam aka to be a Lactation Consultant! I was the hardest test I have ever taken. The morning session was made of 75 multiple choice questions, and the afternoon session was a 100 multiple choice questions related to 100 pictures. No one comes out of that room knowing how they did...and the worst part is you have to now wait until Oct. 28th to find out if you passed or not. Great.

Third my co-worker went into labor last night, so instead of taking the IBLCE exam with me she had a beautiful baby girl named Amelia! Congratulations to her and her happy husband! We are all thrilled to hear the good news.

Fourth my cousin Cara, had her baby girl today too! What a wonderful ending to a stressful day!

And now after a celebratoring dinner at Lebanaese Taverna, I am ready to plop on the couch in my PJ's (at 7pm) and watch a long awaited movie (I haven't watch TV/movie in weeks).

Now that I have all of this freedom, I'm looking forward to not studying, and getting crafty or enjoying writing to you...my audience whoever it is who may be reading.

Thanks,

Rachel!

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