Exam Day has Come and Gone

Yesterday was EXAM DAY. This is a both loved and hated day in this household. Chris, as an actuary, has to take nine major exams to get the final title of being a "real" actuary. Okay, I know there is an actual title but right now at 5:00am in the morning I can't remember what it is. Anyway, he has passed six out of the these nine beastly exams. There is no way to describe the amount of preparation, stress and pressure that Chris goes through twice a year for these exams. They mean SO much to his career both in terms of career advancement possibilities and financial advancement. But the studying is insane. He starts about five months prior to the exam, studies every day at lunch, gets some study hours built into his work day and then studies in the evenings when he gets home. Not to mention the studying that he does on the weekends. It is kind of like taking a full college semester course load and trying to learn all that information in five months without a professor or ever actually going to class.
So yesterday was the big day. He took test number nine (they don't really go in order; I know its weird). We won't find out until right around Christmas (literally getting the results on the 21st or 22nd of December!) if he passed or failed. The reason that I say the day is both loved and hated is because I am sure sitting for an exam that takes over five hours cannot be fun for Chris but when he is done and comes home we both know that there will be no studying for several weeks! He can come home from work and be DONE with work. We can make plans for the weekend and not have to consider when he will get time to study. I can once again count on him for help in the evenings with Sam's dinner, bath time and bedtime routines. These are all reasons to LOVE exam day or at least love once exam day is over.
Yesterday Chris came home feeling good. He felt good about the preparation that he had put into this one, good about how the exam went overall and good that it was once again over. He tried his hardest and there is nothing more that I can ask of him.

Now we just wait to see the results.

And this morning I thought everyone could use a good morning kiss... so here you go!