Keeping it REAL

So here we go 2013!

It's been awhile since I have posted on our blog. It's time that I get back to the basics and document our family "keeping it real".  Old draft posts for 2012 will be popping up as I get pictures added to them.

I changed the title to our family blog because I thought that saying is more fitting for our family. Everyday brings a new adventure and life lesson. Sometimes our adventure is happy, sad or just plain frustrating, so we are keeping it real. Promise that is the last time I will say that. Well maybe not, but for this post yes.

My 2013 goal is to Simplify! Simplify ME, Family, and Home! So throughout the months, I will update what I am working on and what I have accomplished or just plain threw out.

My last post was in 2011, I have quite a few draft posts for last year, but honestly 2012 was horrible and a blur. I was happy to have 2012 end, but the start of 2013 has come with it's challenges as well.

The year started with knee surgery for me. The day was a normal Friday and I was picking up Emmett at therapy. Whenever I pick Emmett up from school or therapy or any location, I usually squat down to greet him with a hug. Like I said, just a normal day, getting the updates from the therapists, got a big hug from Emmett, then I went to stand up. My knee popped and locked and down I went like a wounded elephant to the floor. I let out a scream, not loud, but apparently loud enough to catch the attention of the whole waiting room of parents picking up their special need children. Emmett freaked out. He didn't know how to process his mom on the floor not able to stand up or kneel.

Emmett's PT came over to assist me. I was able to move from the floor to the chair with excruciating amount of pain (worse than I have ever experienced). I couldn't straighten my leg, I couldn't put weight on my leg, and now I can't comfort my son who is freaking out. Emmett's freak out is running away. So he started to run around the therapy place and then outside to the parking lot. Scary!!! The normal thing is I could chase him, but normal was gone for today.

I got ahold of Scott and told him he needed to come get me & Emmett because I couldn't walk or drive. My husband in his fun loving way comforted me over the phone by saying, "You've fallen and you can't get up!" He picked me up and  took me to the doctor, where they tried to straighten and twist my leg for x-rays. Oh man, I have never cried and screamed so much (child birth was a walk on the beach compared to this pain). X-rays showed I didn't break anything, which I knew.

Picture this, Cindi standing on one leg with the other leg bent at a 90 degree angle. Every step I took with crutches gave a shooting pain. My Friday was ruined and the day was planned for finishing up the arrangements for Paige's birthday party happening at my house the next day. WHAT??!!!!

Luckily, my mom was coming to town for the party and would save the day! Paige was not having a postponement of her party (which at 8 is understandable). So I explained to her that her "Winter Luau" would probably be very low key since mom was couch bound. I took my pain pills and went off to bed. By 7:30 am Saturday morning when I woke, my house was turned into this low key "Winter Luau"! So the "over the top" gene clearly comes from my mom!