Hello All! Yes, I know it's been awhile since the last update, and lots of things have been happening. The girls are now 7 years old, can you believe it? We had a great Christmas, although we didn't get to celebrate in the new house. It wasn't quite finished before Christmas, so we had to have it at the old house. We have now moved in to the new house. We moved the second weekend in January and it was FREEZING cold outside. We managed to get moved in spite of the cold, and all our friends were on hand to help out. My parents are thrilled that we are right next door and the girls love being able to see Grammy and Grandpa all the time now. I love it too. My family has always been very close knit and it's fun being able to be so close to them. We just got back here from my parent's house. It's Easter Sunday and we spent the day over there with Dad's family doing the annual Cook Easter Egg Hunt. What fun! I'm so glad the weather was beautiful and everyone had a ball! Well, on to other news. 3 weeks ago I was sitting up at the girls' school in the pick up line waiting for the girls to be dismissed from school. I had my knitting with me and was knitting away when I looked up to see Emily and her teacher come around the side of the building from the playground and Emily was crying. The teacher told me Emily had fallen off the merry go round and hurt herself. I took Emily inside the building to look her over to see where she was hurt. We got in the bathroom and I lifted her shirt to check her over, but she wouldn't let me raise her right arm. Hmmm....that's not right, so I asked her where it hurt and she pointed out her right collarbone. Oh, boy, this was sounding more and more like the time her cousin Hannah broke her collar bone several years ago.
So I take her to see the Dr. at NSA and he checks her over and says he thinks her collarbone is broken, so then we go to the ER at Baptist Collierville to get X rayed. Sure enough, it's broken, so now she's in a harness that pulls her shoulders back. She now has about three more weeks to go before we get to take it off. She had a sling too, for about two weeks, then we didn't have to use it anymore. She can only take the harness off for baths. She's been a real trooper through the whole thing, and hasn't complained much at all. The harness is starting to annoy her now, and she keeps asking me how much longer she has to wear it. Oh. well, considering what the girls went through after their premature birth and 3 month stint in th NICU, I suppose this is just a minor hiccup in the grand scheme of things. Well, I guess I've said enough here, maybe even said a bit TOO much, (chuckle) Here's hoping you all have had a happy Easter. HE LIVES! Julie