::my office::

Ok, so this isn't always my office, but often. And don't I have the cutest little coworker?

::hi::

We're still alive, just super busy in the office. Turns out most of the income at the office from last week got all messed up between our accounts and the previous dentist's, so I've been trying to unravel the mess. Hopefully this week will turn out better.

I finally got a new cell phone--Kris and I have been toughing it out with our old original iphones--they're great phones, but after three years they were both starting to fritz out, mine worse than his. You might have noticed if we've ever talked on the phone. For about the last 6 months the phone has randomly hung up, put people on hold and mute and conferenced called others in during calls. It wasn't super professional.
So I finally got to upgrade to the iphone 4 and it's nice. I really like it so far, except I don't have a case and I'm totally worried I'm going to drop it on our brick floor with a big smash.

But the point is that it has a great camera in it--with a ZOOM! Who knew? And so far the photos I've taken look pretty amazing for a phone.

The one at the top of this post of Max in his karate outfit eating a popsicle under the tree in the garden which is in the midst of a serious weeding is courtesy of New Phone. Straight out of the phone in fact. Looks pretty good, doesn't it? I like it a lot so far.

::this week::

This week was our first official week of work in the office and boy has it been crazy!
Our practice loan actually funded without any problems on monday, that was amazing and probably the least stressful thing that happened all week.
Kris's mom was here monday and tuesday and helped us so so much. She hung out with Max so he wouldn't have to spend all day with us at the office (for at least a couple of days) and she helped me with the housework. Without her here I probably wouldn't have survived the week.

We've got a lot of good patients coming into the office and everybody seems really excited to meet Kris. The staff has been great to work with so far and they're being patient with our learning curve. It's definitely really odd to suddenly be in charge of employees. At least they all pretty much know what they're expected to do and we just have to step in and tweak a few things.

Our biggest problem this week has been that one of the insurances that the office takes is SO slow and they haven't approved Kris as a provider yet. The other main insurance company took about two days to get it done. So far we're looking at two weeks plus with these guys and they can't even tell us if they've received the paperwork we faxed them at the beginning of the week. It's super frustrating because Kris can't see those patients, and there are definitely a good amount of them. We're just going to keep on bugging them. Kris and I have each been calling them at least once a day, and we're hoping they'll get so tired of us that they will just approve him so we will leave them alone.

I didn't have any time to take any fun pictures this week, nor did we have any exciting adventures besides Max's little bout with some sort of a stomach bug this morning. We did work a lot, I had a dr's appt out here, which is great because I was worried I was never going to find a doctor.

All in all it's been a good week, though I hope next week is a lot less stressful. It'll probably help that next week I won't have to speak in church or sub for the sunbeams...(like I have to do this week.)

Here's a picture of Kris and I on our first official work day. You can see Max in the corner there enjoying his breakfast, loving that he gets to hang out with Grandma all day.
Thanks for coming out Kathy and saving at least a part of my sanity!!!

(I look a little scared in this picture, maybe I was. Kris looks cute though.)

.::Wow::.

Check out what Kris just sent me. He's at his first day of work at his own hospital today. (I'm obviously a little behind on the NY posts, there are a couple more to come.)








Looks like he's for real now. Crazy, huh?