HAVE YOUR BOYS EVER SHOWN CURIOSITY ABOUT YOUR JOB?
WHAT’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?
Rapid Fire Questions Favorite date night… eat dinner, come back, and usually the kids will be in bed, and we’ll watch a movie. One word that best describes your family… loving. Favorite movie… Edward Scissorhands . Favorite food… Crawfish cakes, made by my husband. Hidden talent… painting. ried or concerned about that is if you care enough to wonder if you’re doing enough, you’re doing enough. You’re giving all the love that the babies need, and that’s evidence of it is that you care enough to wonder that question.
CAITLIN: My older son much more so than my younger son. He knows what Mommy does. Mommy operates on people. She does surgeries. Funnily enough, whenever we would ask him, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” He said, “I think I want to be a drama surgeon.” I was like, “Do you mean a trauma surgeon?” Whenever I am looking up things, he always wants to know what it is. What I usually tell my kids in terms of what I do is that I’m kind of like a plumber. Basically, anything that water moves through in your body, I can unblock or fix. So they know Mommy works on kidneys, and we’ve talked about what those are. We’ve always talked about it since they were really little. IF YOU HAD ONE FREE DAY COMPLETELY TO YOURSELF, HOW WOULD YOU SPEND IT? CAITLIN: If I had a free day to myself, I would read. I would maybe lay out by the pool, get a massage, and then maybe have a nice dinner and watch a movie in bed.
CAITLIN: I like playing video games. I don't know if that’s surprising or not, but some people might find that surprising. A lot of surgeons actually play video games, but I do enjoy video games.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR PROUDEST “MOM MOMENT” SO FAR?
CAITLIN: When my older son started school, I had another mom come and tell me that her daughter enjoyed playing with him, and that he was one of the only boys that she enjoyed playing with because he was kind. As a mom, you want great things for your kids, but most of all, we just want them to be good humans. Getting that feed- back was a really proud moment for me, to know that we’re doing something right.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR OTHER PARENTS?
CAITLIN: A lot of parents are like, Am I doing enough? Is this enough? What I always tell parents who seem wor-
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