Saturday...........

I am trying to be so much better about communicating. It seems I can always make an excuse for not getting around to this. Mark and the girls went to a neighbors house to swim. Such a blessing, a pool to use but nothing to maintain. We are going to a cookout to see an old friend this afternoon. Mark has been working for days to finish his newsletter. His experiences are much more exciting than mine at this point, but I have so much going on too. Some days wishing I would just take a breath and do nothing for a while, but I just don't seem to be able to do that.It has been a crazy 2 months. Lots of lessons learned. Realizing just how those things that can feel so bad, can be just what God has to move our lives in a new direction. I was really blessed when I lost my job back in march to get a job within a week. The Lord gave me this opportunity to be at a job that is very low stress and has the hours worked around so that I have had some time to pursue what I really want to do and be. I am also doing a few hours here and there seeing some alzheimer patients. I picked up some of the patients from my previous job because the facility asked me to see them because I had a good system with them. So I am excited to be back there now.

In the meantime, I have been meeting with a doc in town about making arrangements to have my own practice within his group. It is just what I was praying for thoughout this season in my life. My heart is truly for people to have affordable and personal healthcare. So many people here in East Texas either do not have insurance or they have high deductibles ($1000-$5000) So that it is cheaper to pay for a discounted cash visit.

I have found that my passion is for hormone therapy and good primary care. Over the past few years I have grown a practice to help people loose weight. Who would have thought that what I would need to help myself would be to help others. It is my favorite thing that I do with my patients. It really ministers into my own life. I have the opportunity to have my own practice under his roof. It is great and weird to have this doc be so supportive yet, not getting my business and encouraging me to control my own practice. It is certainly what I wanted, but now that I have it I dont know what to do with the control. But I am figuring it out. It is exciting that I have just enough side work to make ends meet while I get up and running. I actually had my first office day of clinic and ended up with no patients, which is weird because I really thought I would have appointments quickly. It was a little last minute when I was able to let people know I would be in clinic again, but I was just a little scared.

Mark is so busy with all of his work from this last trip to Liberia. He is trying to communicate more of this experience, with a little pushing.

So here we go, it is summer, Jessie is going into high school. Cailin is going into 6th grade and going to play the tuba:) I am now Zana Elliott enterprises!!!!! And Mark is dreaming of Africa day and night!!!!!!! hmmmm, dont know what the future holds....but it is a great journey.