My mother was a little disappointed in my blog yesterday. Apparently she doesn't see my son's talent as clearly as his mother does. I will try to be funny today to make up for yesterday's post.

I have changed my hours at work starting this week. I had a meeting with my boss on Monday. She wanted me to come back and work full time. I had a few conditions, the main one was that I wanted to get off every day at 2:30 so I could be home with the kids. I am taking one class at school in the evening and two online classes instead of going to school two days a week. After she agreed to my new hours I said, "With that said, can I have tomorrow off to take Shannon to the doctor for her thumb?" She laughed and said "of course."

When I called the doctor that the ER gave me, they couldn't get her until next week. I called around and found a doctor that happened to be a hand specialist and his office was two blocks from Shannon's school. We got there today and they took more X-Rays. The X-ray machine was not quite as state of the art as what they had at the hospital. When the technician touched the foot pedal to lower the table, the pedal fell off. I thought to myself "this is not good." The doctor came in the room and said, "what did they tell you at the hospital?" We told him an he responded, "the x-ray came back negative for a fracture." I told him that the Er doctor told me that he had a hard time seeing it, but he blew it up on the computer screen and showed us, the fracture was right on the knuckle. The doctor took off her temporary cast, her thumb was still swollen and green. He said he just glanced at the X-ray and he wanted to take another look. He came back in and said , "the fracture is right next to the growth plate, it was hard to read, due to the X-Ray and the amount of swelling and bruising, I believe that it is indeed broken." He sent the nurse in to put on a cast and told us to come back in two weeks. I haven't mentioned this to Shannon but I think when I come back in two weeks her thumb might be on backwards. I 'm not too confident in this doctor, considering I practically had to put a red X on the X-ray to show him where it was broken. On a positive note, it was a quick visit, her appointment was at 10:30, I had her back at school by noon and that included a trip to McDonald's. How important is a thumb anyway? She has another one!!

I picked the kids up from school at 3:00 and hurried off to my school for my computer class that started tonight, the class is from 4:00 to 5:50. I got there and the halls were empty. I took out my schedule and noticed that I was a week early. What a dork I am. I did all that rushing around and I wasn't even supposed to be there. I came home and cooked dinner for my family. I actually got four of my kids to eat and I wasn't even serving macaroni and cheese tonight. Miracles really do happen.

My darling husband so eloquently pointed out that I left the jingle bells hanging on the front door when I took down the Christmas decorations. Now that he has finally put the Christmas tree away he feels it is safe to give me trouble about the jingle bells. The girls bathroom light is burned out again, I could wager a pretty safe bet that the jingle bells will be packed away before the lights are replaced in the bathroom. Not to mention the two poinsettia plants in my kitchen that I wanted to throw away Sunday when we were cleaning. He insisted that I leave them until Tuesday and he would get them out with the trash. Guess what is still in my kitchen??