"Get this taken care of before softball season!"

Hello to all of you co-frozen people (except for Doug & Jen in Arizona),

It was minus 8 this morning and no I didn't take this picture but it represents a Midwestern day today.

Here are the highlights from today:

1. We've enjoyed the Super Bowl talks today surrounding the Colts win! yeah!
2. School was cancelled today. Madison spent the night at B & P's. Pakka picked Quinn up this morning.
3. The kids and Beppe & Pakka came and had lunch with me at the hospital. That was fun. I think it's been about a year since I've actually sat in the hospital cafeteria. What a nice break for me.
4. Madison had her left wrist x-rayed again... check-up on Friday.
5. School is cancelled for tomorrow too (Midwestern wimps!).
6. Madison is spending another night at B & P's. Do we need to pay some rent?
7. Quinn is a homebody so he's cozy in his own bed tonight. He's going to play with Nate tomorrow and give B & P a break (my choice, not theirs).
8. Tonight I worked with my neighbor, Darlene, on planning the food for the parent-teacher conference meal next week. A little tricky since neither of us are going to be there but so many parents are willing to help... it's been easy to get another 20 people involved. We are good delegators! : )
9. Madison managed to slip "Dog Obedience Class" in to her busy evening with Karla and Katie. She went along for the sheer joy of it. : ) (with their dog)

I'm a little concerned about Madison's wrist. For your refresher... a year and a half ago (yes!) she fell off her scooter and sprained her left wrist. We had it x-rayed and she was in a splint for a few weeks and that was pretty much the end of the story. Well, very occasionally, or may be I should say, "rarely" she would comment about how it would still bother her sometimes. She was usually trying to do something like a hand-stand or something else kind of rough so I just dismissed it. As of lately, she's made more comments about it hurting in situations that shouldn't cause pain, like pushing up and out of bed with her left wrist on the bed to push. I thought we need to at least get it checked again (hypochondriac mother?). I took her to Dr. Wagner, an orthopod in Goshen who has a special pediatric interest. He found her left wrist to be weaker than the right, gave her PT exercises to do and ordered another x-ray with the hint of possibly an MRI. Well, she can't even do the exercises because they hurt too much. It's simple stuff like squeezing a ball... I had her try it tonight and she quit because it hurt too much. I gave her a 3# weight for her just to use with range of motion exercising of her wrist. I seriously thought she would laugh at these exercises but she actually quit and said she couldn't do them! OK, now I'm really the hypochondriac mother. She goes back on Friday. We'll see what he says. I'm praying that this is nothing but tendonitis or something simple. Here is Tony's concern after I told him about the latest attempt at wrist exercises..."Well, we have to get this taken care of before softball season!" Ha! Leave it to the dad/coach to worry about her catching hand! Anyway, sorry, that was kind of long.

I'll let'cha go. Good-night and stay warm.
Love to all, Leah