God bless America, land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her...
M.O.W. has gone to work. :( He has a trial that starts Monday (!) and the team has to work all weekend. Yeah, we love the judge that planned that.
Yesterday turned out to be a busy day and I didn't make the one trip that I wanted to the Dollar Store for fun stuff to play with today. We'll have to scrounge around the house and see how creative we can be. But what's a good substitute for squirt guns?
One of our errands yesterday was to the orthopedist to get a short, waterproof cast put on the Pipster. After the x-rays he was sternly lectured (in a nice way, by a very nice man!) about not using his broken arm, especially for things like, uh, climbing trees. It seems he had actually done more damage to his arm while in the cast, causing the bone to angulate, or bend, 20 degrees. He said that it will take 20 months for that to straighten out! After threatening him with surgery and keeping the long cast on for the rest of the summer, we were both near tears. Well, one of us was actually crying a little. Lots of promises to behave like his arm is broken bought us a short cast, but the casting dude had to put a lot of pressure on the arm to encourage it to grow the other way. That was not a happy time either.
Next stop was Costco where we soothed the pain with fireworks and chocolate calcium chews because the other half of the lecture was addressed to the issue of not getting enough calcium in his diet and his arm hadn't healed as much as it should have. I'm not into the whole milk-drinking thing and I think the stuff that passes for milk in the stores will cause more problems than it solves. I essentially just buy it for the cereal, which I think should be outlawed, too. So if he's going to drink all the milk the doc suggested, it will be Real Milk. And the stupid calcium chews, I found out later, are not the most bioavailable type of calcium. But the suckers sure taste good! They're "sugar-free" too, if you're on a diet. (Aren't we all?)
Anybody have any great plans for the 4th? We'll probably go down the street to a parking garage rooftop to view the city fireworks after we grill some awesome hamburgers filled with herb butter. Yum. Then we'll come home and light our fireworks in the cul-de-sac.
Yea! Sara has a blog. Very cool. It looks great. Are you still buying "real milk" at the farmer's market? Sorry to hear about the broken arm...it must be killing him to not be able to swim. We have had a CRAZY summer, but things are calming down now, maybe when the trial is over we can all get together and play -- if not then then maybe the kids and mommies can....
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