Day 4

only Day 4?

I think the honeymoon period is over (I hate to even call it that) You know, when something hard comes your way and you have this energy and resolve to handle it and figure things out until maybe a week into it. Maybe its adrenaline or love or all of that, but initially when sickness or injury come you can mentally cope better than you do in a week or so (or 4 days as is my case). I woke up this morning just feeling not quite up to the challenge, and my back was really hurting. Fortunately, I have medicine to help with that and I didn't notice it the rest of the day. Jared stayed home with Ethan while I went to teach, then we packed Ethan up and went to Emory for his orthopedic visit. There we were in the parking lot, getting starfish out of the car, trying to open his wheelchair, grab his food and toys, and a blanket since it was going to snow. Then we went to the building and didn't find the handicapped ramp so Jared carried Ethan and I lifted the wheelchair up the stairs gracefully:) We met another starfish in the office, had great conversation with a starfish mom, and even got pictures of the 2 of them in their superhero costumes (soon to be posted on the blog- Ethan's first starfish friend). Ethan got x-rays, and drank the coke I let him have of mine (much to Jared's embarassment as the Doctor was surprised we let him drink coke; no shame on my part:) We've got enough to deal with, a little coke is the least of my concerns!

So the doctor told us 5 weeks...then we come back and if everything looks good he will get the cast off. Ethan screamed a lot today, I felt like screaming a lot, and I won't speak for Jared but it seemed like he was emotionally komotose around 11:30 am. We got home from Atlanta and watched Clifford the Big Red Dog and I fell asleep immediately (until a little hand started patting my head like, "mom, wake up! I need you to watch Clifford with me." And here we are now, just put Ethan to bed, and prob about to put ourselves to bed. There was a possibility of snow, which means possibly no school (i.e. teaching) tommorow. But its pretty dry here right now so I'm not convinced...

THANKFUL for... brownies we got for dinner. that's all i can think of right now... oh wait, Clifford because he was a big hit for Ethan tonight. I think I'm really sleepy right now so I will have more gratitude in my heart when I get some sleep...