
Before & After
Scenes from the pit :) The scene before surgery. It's only a flesh wound. Actually we were yet again thankful the bone didn't break the skin. You can see just how close it was. She even had a blister form where the bone was pressing against the skin. That was a nice...

Sometimes Pain Precedes Relief
Tomorrow we (Go-To-Girl and I) head back to Children's Hospital and her terrific, yet somewhat conversationally challenged, orthopedic surgeon to have her pins removed. Okay, so I've done my darnedest to get that man talking. He was close the last time we saw him. He...

Truth & Consequences
I'm SO sorry this didn't post on Wednesday. Chalk it up to general flakiness :) So here's Wednesday's post on Friday: I just love (and really appreciate) when you guys send me articles that help us navigate our sometimes rocky adventure. MOAT mom Carrie sent this to...

Got X-Box?
I hope you get as big of a kick out of this as I did. Here's one family's attempt to stuff the X-Box push-back. Most of us with teenage boys can completely relate... okay, so feel the pain. To protect the overly sensitive (any middle schooler!), a certain gamer's name...

The Face Book Dilemma
Head-in-the-sand alert.... lest we be caught off-guard. Here's what's going on 100 times a day: Kids, erroneously think they're in some safe, parent-free zone at liberty to comment and post on Facebook, email, text,.... Ahhh... Facebook. Such a great and fun forum......