Five on Friday!

1.) Quick update on previous ramblin: Church is AWESOME! I'm so glad we went back! We are getting into the swing of it, and the kids are enjoying it as well. Noah has made a friend, and that is the huge part of it all. He looks forward to Sunday's and enjoys having a companion to run around with. Huge step!!
I'm looking forward to enjoying a meal and discussion time with a small group this weekend. Cinco De Mayo themed so I am going to make Horchata cupcakes.... But I'll save the rest of the deets for my other blog. :)

2.) So just over two weeks ago I took a lovely basket of clothes that the AMAZING Chief laundered and folded to be put away in the girls room. As I took a stack of pants to be placed in the bottom drawer of the dresser I pivoted and squatted and...... CRUNCH.... My knee felt like I got shanked!!! I hobbled around the rest of the night, then decided when it felt worse that I needed to ice and elevate. I was hoping it would be like when you sorta turn your foot and it hurts but the next day you all better. Yeah right. I went our medical group and had to see the New guy. He wanted to play it safe and said, wear a brace if you want, ice it, stay off of it and if it gets worse or doesn't get better by the end of the weekend come back. And that is exactly what I did because it didn't get better. Well.... it would then it would get worse. There were moments where I could not even move the joint. So I got to see my doctor, who I just adored until he decided to do a certain little test on my knee and about kicked him before jumping off the table. He referred me to get an MRI. I bet him it was just sprained, he said, "double or nothing you tore your meniscus!" Told you I adored him, he's great! So on Wednesday I got my MRI done and they gave me the films!! Silly people... I came home and held them up in my kitchen window while comparing to MRI images from YouTube and Google Images. I could see the meniscal tear clear as day.

I was so proud of myself. I got the call from the doctors office yesterday to let me know that yes, indeed there are tears in the meniscus, as well as a bone bruise, and tendonitis. After a quick lesson I could easily find the bone bruising. Now I am ready to open my own practice. ha ha ha!!

3.) The Chief and Jake ran the flying pig 5K with the Vogel girls, Sasquatch and Cousin Cookie. They had a blast and I had a blast cheering them on.



Here is Major Mom and D.I. Mom



GO BEARCATS!!!



So I got sidetracked. The Chief then ran the Cincinnati Flying Pig half Marathon the next day. Yes, 13.1 miles of downtown terrain. He did fabulous and came in at 2 hours 5 minutes. We then linked up with Laurel to cheer Tim on as he ran the full 26.2 Marathon. It was so much fun, and it is easy to see why the Flying Pig is consistently voted the Most fun marathon in the country!

4.) School is dragging along. I took a big test today in my world religion class on Buddhism. I looked at and wondered, "When did we talk about this!?" What grade do I need to just pass the class? I know, I know. That's not be.

5.) Looking forward to a fun weekend filled with great friends, great food and hopefully a little joy for this mother.