Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:15 pm.
Well, I got the boot-the “aircast” boot that is for the stress fracture that I’ve been walking around on for the past 2 weeks. This will be my view for the next 3 weeks and hopefully no more than that. It feels good to not have it hurting while I walk but my calves are already tight from the unusual stance I have to take.
I’m bummed that it’s broken but really grateful to know what’s wrong and that it’s fixable. I can’t run, bike, swim or play volleyball but fortunately can still do laundry, housework and take care of the kids-lucky me;)
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:15 pm. 2 comments
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:27 am.
Kelly was giving the boys a bath when he noticed the furnace wasn’t on-it was 64 degrees in the house and dropping. I watched the boys while he went down to check out the furnace, I was thinking about how we just had to get a new one last winter, there is no way it should be broken.
Kelly comes back up “Tobin, did you turn the furnace off?”
“Yes, but . . .” and a string of words that didn’t really make a lot of sense to us but I’m sure were some sort of explanation, then he threw Deb (our nanny) under the bus . . .
“Nona said I could play in there”
It was interesting to us that he knew exactly what we were talking about. He does stuff like this all the time, there doesn’t seem to be any deliberate disobedience just this unquenchable curiority. And, seriously, do they need to put an ON/OFF switch right at 3 year old eye level?
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:27 am. 1 comment
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:10 am.
The boys are both at the end of a cold-it has not been a bad one but we’ve been giving them this Zinc Elderberry stuff that has really appeared to help Tobin. It seems like the last couple colds Ez has had have turned into ear infections. So, I’ve been doing saline in their noses (which they love), massaging the area around their ears (I think I read that somewhere). I decided to have them blow kleenex balls across the kitchen floor through a straw (I’ve heard that ”blowing” is supposed to help keep drainage moving). Any other advice??
On your mark . . .
Go!
Ezra (the super competitive) won.
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 9:10 am. 1 comment
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 4:17 pm.
This entry is in response to a challenge , a challenge to look at things from a different perspective, see beauty where you least expect it, “shoot” from angles less familiar. You won’t believe how interesting and “cool” a laundrymat can look (check out that link!).
http://www.mycharmingkids.net/2010/01/lets-look-at-this-from-different-angle.html
Since my foot still hurts (yes, it seems to be better but not fixed-I see a podiatrist in my near future-I’ll take any recommendations!), I decided to try this at home with Marian. She has finally turned the corner on reading-where her desire (and stamina) has caught up with her ability.
This is the shot I most naturally take
but I love how this one shot with me on the floor sort of looks like I’m sort of “spying” on her
and this one is so totally Marian (like me, she can’t sit upright with feet on the floor)
and a few detail shots
So, I need some book advice, this one is a Magic Tree House book-I read it and I’m ok with the “magic” of getting to another time/place and this one seemed fine. Anyone familiar? She really liked it and read it in about an hour! I like the historical aspect of it but some of them looked to contain too much magical/fantasy/wizardry stuff. HELP:)
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 4:17 pm. 8 comments
