Kids are keeping my busy

Happy Thursday everyone! Hope all is going well. I didn't mean to go MIA, but life has a way of doing that. I still need to do the last posts about my Disney chaperoning trip, but first I thought I'd hop on here and just do a general life update. 

The kids have been keeping me hopping!

The last month has been consumed with track for Jacob. He joined the middle school track team this year and that means daily practices and several meets. He has participated in the throwing events of shot put and discus. He also runs the 100-meter dash. He has improved his shot-put throws from 15 feet 11 inches in his first meet to 23 feet and 1/4 inches in his last meet yesterday. He also improved his discus throw from 43 feet 8 inches in his first meet to his personal record of 52 feet at the meet before last night. I am so proud of him for trying out a new sport and having a blast. He is planning on keeping up with practice over the summer and then participating in track and field again next year. The only bad part of his participating in track is that several of his meets are almost an hour away. He had 2 meets this past week and both were between 50 minutes and an hour away. I will go to everyone that I can, to support him! 

This last month has been consumed with CINDERELLA play practice and performance for Rebecca! She was in her high school musical production of Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella. She was in the ensemble and was also the understudy to Cinderella and the stepsisters. That involved a lot of daily practices, usually in the evening, and lots of late nights. The performances were last weekend, and the musical was so good. I ended up going to all 3 performances and am so proud of Rebecca and the rest of the cast for a great play! 

Ben has also been keeping me busy. He has had state testing at school and that has caused his anxiety to skyrocket. That means he is clingier and whinier and so I have needed to be available for more cuddles and hugs. We are also entering the last month of school for him, and he is anxious about moving to the Middle School next year. He has had some fun though, as his dad took him and Jacob to WWE Smackdown event in Columbus last week. Once he got over the pyrotechnics and the noise, he had fun.

 

As for me... well, I in between driving kids all over and supporting them, I have also had a few doctor's appointments. I finally had an MRI done on my knee and found out that I have a small tear in my meniscus, cartilage that is pulling away in 2 different places and the start of a stress fracture where my knee meets my tibia. Ugh. My orthopedic wants to do arthroscopic surgery with a recovery of 4-6 weeks. Thankfully, he said that I could wait until the end of May so that I wouldn't miss too much pay for work. I only have 2 sick days and 1 personal day left for this school year. I had a pre-surgery screening last week and am just waiting for them to call and give me a date. They said that they might need to get cardiology clearance due to my myocardial bridge. I am hoping to hear tomorrow or early next week with a date. Hopefully. 

Well, I should wrap this up and go flip laundry or do something else productive. I'm not going to promise that I will be posting every day, but I am going to try to post more often than I have been. Rebecca has been yelling at me to post more! LOL 

I hope everyone has a great rest of today and a good weekend coming up!