Wow, so our first month of school has flown by! I really don't know what happened to it; it's all this blurry mess... I remember there being lots and lots of ortho doc visits in there.... and lots ot time spent on the soccer field... Can't remember much more than that...
So, update on Aidan first: He was able to get his cast off last Thursday. Hooray! I can't believe how quickly kids heal; it was just a month ago that he broke his arm, but after several more xrays (we won't go there about how much these are costing. Let's just say it would've bought us a really kick-ass foozball table.), the doctor determined that Aidan's arm had healed completely. Amazing! Must have been all the milk and vitamins I shoved down him during that month. Now, we have another month for Aidan to get range of motion back in his arm. For the first three days or so after getting the cast off, he really favored his left arm, but we reassured him (over and over again) that yes, he could use his right arm again and that he'd better start getting the strength back or else he was going to end up with physical therapy. Also, the doctor wants to make sure the growth plate is growing like it should be; I really don't want to think about the "what ifs" on if it isn't growing like it should... I heard a horror story from a mom last night, while sitting at the soccer field. She works in a doctor's office and this 15 yr-old patient had broken her arm and the doctor who set it didn't set it right and a muscle in her arm died and so the girl ended up having surgery to have some sort of spacers or extenders or whatever the mom called them put into her arm. Lovely... That's JUST what I needed to hear so I could fixate on the worst case scenarios till Aidan's appointment, which is 3 weeks away... I think he'll be okay, though. Little by little each day he's doing more and more with his right arm again. It's probably a great thing that he's taking drum lessons; I'm sure that's going to help build up those muscles again...
The second part of our busy, craziness is Alex's soccer. I've always encouraged the kids to play sports; especially because by nature, they are lazy slugs. These are the kids who you FORCE to go outside and God-forbid they not be able to play their beloved Wii/ playstation/ computer games every day. That would just be the end of the world, you know?! So, Alex's team this year has two practices a week and one to two games a weekend. That's fine; we expect it and are actually glad it's not the suck-ass schedule he had when playing baseball this past Spring. HOWEVER (there's always that), because there are only three teams in his age group, they are being forced to travel and play teams from neighboring towns. It's not that bad, really. The farthest we have to drive is a town that's 30 minutes from us and the games are at least later in the morning, so we aren't heading out before daybreak. But it's just that when you aren't prepared for this, when you thought that it was just going to mean he'd have games on the soccer field a mile from your house every Saturday, it sort of blows. So, Saturday is Alex's first away game; thankfully, I've skirted out of that one because I'd already commited to studying with a co-worker for the upcoming Asthma Educator Exam I'm taking next month...
Leading up to the third chapter to my Book of Craziness... My work requires me to get credentialed in Asthma Education; it doesn't sound like that big of a deal, right? Except that the test is a bear and there's only a 68% national pass rate. Still not that big of a deal, really... Except that part of your brain that is used for studying and retaining information needed for this sort of thing? Yeah, mine hasn't been accessed in oh, about 15 years. And that was pre-children... and pre-many, many martinis... So, trying to juggle studying with the massive piles of crap at work, and being my children's chauffer when not dealing with the massive piles of work hasn't left much time (or energy) for me to use towards tapping into that part of my grey matter... So THANK GOD Kathy, my co-worker is in the same boat. Hopefully we can pull our brains together and come up with one complete brain and get going on studying... My goal is to take this beast-of-an-exam and get it over with next month (while still driving my children all over creation for their miscelanious things)... as soon as work reemburses me for the test (all $300 of it) and I have the official "green light" from the Powers That Be that I can sign up for it...
So, yeah... That's how we've spent the first month... Oh, and did I mention Aidan's now a cub scout? So now we have all his Wolf cub scout meetings and activities every weekend to do (that's okay, though. I actually really like all the little things we're getting to do as a family)... I'm HOPING that soon (maybe in a month, or year, or 20 years) we'll have a less-full schedule again so we can finally get to go see friends in neighboring states who just moved (Ang, I'm talking about you). Or have friends from neighboring states, who just had twins (Tammy, I'm talking to you), come to our place for the weekend... Or just take a day and do NOTHING (what's that like? I can't even phathom that)... I'll try to continue keeping up (and maybe even post some pictures- that would be nice, huh?). It may be every month or two, but I'll try...
