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It just takes time
It’s Friday morning here and the kids are giving me grief for not submitting my final Gisborne...

She’ll be right
I can’t believe it. Our year abroad in New Zealand has flown by, and now we’re getting ready to...

Grateful
Last October, I saw an older man in the Emergency Department who had collapsed while surfing due...

Hard to say goodbye
Friday is my last day of school in New Zealand and to be honest I’m not sure how I feel about it....

Different Priorities, Different Results
There were two interesting articles published in the United States that highlighted the important...

A taste of Asia
The Irwin’s have been a little lazy with blog lately (except maybe Mom), but I’m excited to tell...

Asia Rocks!
It’s been a long time since I’ve written because we’ve been running around with all our sports and...

The Little Man
Julien hasn’t gotten much ink here on our blog. He’s too young to write his own blogs (he’s 5,)...

Running a business from 8500 miles away
Ok friends, let’s talk business. Because to be honest, I’ve been mom’ing hard on this blog. But I...

A week in a campervan… well almost
We just got back from a trip to the South Island, and it was amazing. I think the thing that we...

A Global Perspective (on Doctoring)
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Sydney Australia and SMACC, one of the premier emergency and critical care conferences in the world now in its 7th and final iteration.

Sports, sports, and also … sports
Have you heard about the no homework policy in New Zealand? Crazy right? I think that I may have...

Deja Vu
Perhaps it is due to the change of seasons, or perhaps for reasons I don’t know, but one thing is...

Biscuit: a cookie, a tube, or both?
While we have all gone back to school, and I have started a new school which I really like, I’ve...

New School, Same me
It has been a couple of weeks since I started Year 9, and it has been quite the transition. I...

Accidents Will Happen
It's summer here, which means a bit of a respite from kids with respiratory illness and fever in...

Hobbies
When we first arrived, a very nice man asked me a question that stopped me in my tracks because I...

worried
As a strong, independent woman, I feel fearless. Bring it. For real. I dare you. As a mom, in the...

Sharing our secret
Happy New Year everyone from the land of the first light. We've had a busy summer, filled with...

Behavioral Changes
Understanding what it takes to change behavior fascinates me. Change is da** near impossible...

End of Summer
I had a lot of fun this Summer (in January :)) but I’m surprisingly ready to go back to school. I...

Vacation in Oz
Recently, my grandparents (Dad’s side) came to visit all the way from New York, and we went to...

Sydney For A Week
When I first arrived in Sydney this week I felt like I was slammed back into reality. It’s a major...

An Irwin Visit
It’s been about six months that we’ve been here and we have only had one visitor, which was...

After the Holidays
I worried a bit about the summer holidays, and the Christmas holiday leading up to summer. I’m...

A Polynesian Christmas
This Christmas was different then all of my others, because there were no stairs to creep down at...

Christmas… and Summer?
Happy Holidays! No matter what you celebrate, this month is a very special time of year. Everybody...

Outdoor Adventures!
One of the coolest things about NZ is that there is a lot of natural beauty and really cool places...

School’s Out for Summer
We are way behind in our blog writing – not just because the weather here is glorious and we’re...

Whāngai
One of my favorite axioms of emergency medicine, and medicine in general, is that patients come...

I ♡ Wellington!
Hi guys! Last weekend my mom and I went on a trip to Wellington. I have heaps to tell you about....

The Look
Many of you know how open I am about sharing whatever it is, whenever it is, in the hopes that we...

A NZ Halloween
Halloween was coming up and all of us were really excited. Even though Halloween isn’t that big of...

Getting over perfect
Over the last several years I have developed some pretty bad TMJ. My jaw clicks every time I open...

The Stoke
The term “stoke” is an enduring surf slang expression meaning excited, pleased, or thrilled. It’s...

Spring Break In NZ!
Hi guys! Spring Break is just about over and we have been traveling around NZ and doing...

Good Living
I’m there. It’s taken some time (as you know,) but I have adjusted and learned to really love...

Rational Care
I’ve wrapped up my second month of clinical shifts, including a string of nights, and wanted to...

Auckland Adventure Week!
So I realize that I haven’t been writing a lot of blogs recently, but that was mainly because life...

Whale of a time!
It has only been one week since we moved, and I already feel at home. My favorite part of the new...

Change is the easy part
We’re behind on our blogging, in part because it hasn’t seemed like the right time to share new...

Straws Suck
In the states, I never really thought about plastic. I never thought about how terribly bad it is....

The kindness of strangers
As Lucas mentioned, we recently returned from a week in Fiji. Absolutely one of the best family...

Our tropical vacation
I’m back from an amazing trip to the one and only Fiji, and it was pretty much the coolest place I...

Pōwhiri
For most of us in the states, new employee orientation is a day to forget... filling out HR forms,...

Unpacking
We're really starting to unpack here - both literally and figuratively, as one hopes to do on a...

Out of the way
I am a morning person. But to be clear, I am a morning person because I enjoy having that time to...