Christmas with the Ericksons

Erickson's came for Christmas this year.  It was so much fun to have them here.  We ate lots of food, had lots of fun.  The kids went ice skating, played in the snow, lots of late nights, and movies.  Megan's shoulder is doing pretty good.  I slept down stairs with her the first few nights.  We slept down in the basement with her.  Char finally said "you have 5 extra beds in this house and I am sleeping on a futon mattress" DUH!! so then I got brave and slept in my own bed.  Oh how nice it was to be in my own bed :)  We shall see how it all goes on Wednesday when she goes back to school, and I got back to work.  Hopefully we can get it together and have her ready when her ride comes.  Sweet neighbor boys are going to take her to school for a while.  I don't want her driving into that mad house with one hand. 

Christmas came early for Meg....

 This is so much fun ~ in the waiting room

 cheese ~ good thing I had to be here at 8:30

 oh this hurts so bad

 bye see you in a few hours

 lah lah land

 get me out of here, I just want to go home

About a year ago Megan hurt her shoulder in practice.  She complained and complained.  We went to Doctor after Doctor, sports medicine doctor, physical therapy.  We tried to ignore it, thinking she was being a bit of a baby.  A few months ago she woke up at 2:30 am crying because her shoulder hurt.  That is when I received "mother of the year" award.  She wouldn't be waking up at 2:30 just for the heck of it.  We made an appointment to get a MRI.  They had to use a needle to inject the dye to see what was going on.  It showed a torn labrum.  Her shoulder in loose genetically any way.  We met with the surgeon and the MRI was worse than we had thought.  So needless to say we opted for surgery.  Had we taken care of the problem a year ago, therapy may have solved the problem.  But since we said buck up she played with it and it got worse.  So she will miss high school ball completely and possibly some of summer ball.  Poor baby.  She wanted her legs shaved so I got to shave her legs, can't say I have ever shaved anyone else's legs.  She has to sleep on the recliner down stairs, so we have had sleepover since Thursday down in the basement.  For the most part she is doing well.  Drugs are great.  We have tried to go longer between pills.  Getting dressed is the worst, she can not move her shoulder at all.  Hopefully she will be able to enjoy Christmas.

recent activites

 Sunday activity ~ building an upside down snowman, with the help from the neighbor.  I think it is pretty clever and cute.

 me and my cute girls ~ that I love so much

 Ice Skating with Santa.  Santa doesn't ice skate so not sure why its called that ~ but it is still fun. 

 cozy shoes

Just realized I never posted dance pictures of Megan.  Also this is the only picture of just here in her dress. "mother of the year" right here. 

It has been a while since my last post.  Lots going on at our house.  Haven't felt like updating much.  But I see the light at the end of the tunnel and we are hanging in there.   We have great neighbors and friends.  We are blessed :)  this last sentence is for my sweet frined Maryann.  She wanted to make the family blog :)