Is it spring yet?

It has been a crazy week. Ceci had a stomach bug that was short-lived (but quite ferocious), on Monday. I picked her up mid-morning from daycare, and survived my first Ceci-getting-sick-in-the-car experience... it seemed a little like a rite of passage. Albeit, a very messy one, and one that I probably could have lived without, but a rite of passage nonetheless. She had to have been feeling absolutely awful that day, but she was so sweet. I knew that she was feeling crummy (aside from the obvious symptoms) when she crawled in my lap and sat there for an entire hour playing with a tic-tac box while we watched some crappy B-movies. She usually can't sit still for more than 5 seconds, so an hour was a little alarming.

I managed to slip on the hardwood stairs toward the tail end of last week while wearing extra slippery wool socks, and really did a number on myself. So, I have been all sorts of sore in the meantime. I figured I was fine, initially. On Monday, though, while Ceci was pretty sick herself, my left leg went from sore to excrutiating. So, we went to the ER and had it x-rayed that evening. Thankfully I didn't break or chip it, so that was good news. I had been thinking about how it felt distinctly like bone chips trying to work their way out of my lower leg all day, and having the x-ray done made me feel a lot better. My shin does look pretty impressive, though. ;-) As an aside, there's nothing like going to the ER covered in bruises with your husband and baby daughter, and explaining that I "fell down the stairs." I felt obligated to highlight my generally uncoordinated and klutzy nature to make it sound believeable! Oh well, I guess there's a lot to be said for still having some bounce left in my bone structure.