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We are now 2 weeks post cast and feeling good.  I look forward to a time when I won’t measure time in “weeks post cast”.  My son is trying to walk more each day.  He does pretty well holding my hand now.  He can also stand on his own, pull himself up on things, and scoot around the house on his bum.  He is also eating and sleeping more due to the increased exercise he has been getting.  Thank goodness!

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Since my sister in law (aka the only other stay at home mom I know) moved away, I have had a hard time finding women to gang out with.  I finally emailed a friend I haven’t seen in a while and invited her over for dinner.  After several emails, we settled on a day.  I shopped, cleaned, and readied myself for a well deserved time with a friend only to be let down, she had to work late.  It’s not that I don’t believe that she did, but I felt let down.  A little thing like a dinner with a friend means a lot when you don’t have contact with friends for weeks at a time.  Without my sister in law and our regular play dates to look forward to, this dinner meant something to me; it was something to look forward to.  Someone told me once that when you schedule something to make sure to follow through, and to be on time.  I try to follow that.  Excitement and anticipation can quickly turn to rejection and abandonment.  And that’s what I felt.

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Since my son’s cast has been off, he’s been crawling around a lot.  I got him a new tunnel and pop up play house to encourage more crawling, movement, and exercise.  We have a long tunnel and some square playhouses which he pokes his head out of like a little prairie dog.  He loves it.  I love that they fold away.

My husband is sneaky.  We discussed to idea of getting a new game system for a few weeks.  With a 2 year old and an infant in the house, not only do we not have time to play games, but I don’t want my kids to play games either.  We finally came to the conclusion that the Wii, with the sports type games, would be an acceptable compromise since the kids would have to be active to play.  So what does my husband do? He goes and buys a stupid PS3.  He has since tried to play it at any opportunity, staying up late to play.  I hate it.  We hardly have any time together anyways, with every moment devoted to work, the kids, or the house, and now I have to compete with these games, and my graphics aren’t as good.

I got my washer fixed, and while the repair guy was here, I had him look at my dryer too. It is a terrible dryer often taking 2-3 cycles to get a load dry. He opened up the back and took out all the built up lint on the inside of the dryer. Its amazing how much lint is not caught in the lint trap. It runs a lot better now only taking 1 cycle to dry the clothes (1 and a half for towels). I feel like I’m really saving money and energy now.

I’m a stay at home mom.  I can’t say that I get out much, although I’m trying.  The bigger problem I have is finding other adults to talk to, namely women.  Most of my friends are still single and work a lot.  The moms I know also work and are really busy.  When I do finally get some time without the kids, there is no one to hang out with.  I usually end up shopping or eating alone.  When my husband gets home from work he is barbarded with stories of the day, he is the only adult I see most days.

The cast is off.  After nearly 9 weeks my son (and I) have freedom again.  Moments after the cast was off I could sense a change in him.  I knew he felt lighter, happier, releaved.  That same day, he started moving, crawling and rolling around.  By that night, he was wanting to try to walk.  We spent the weekend in the bath, pool and sprinkler; all things that we couldn’t do with the cast.  It was great to see him so happy, back to his usual self.

When something like this happens to your child, an accident with no warning, there is something that happens.  The Blame Game.  Here’s how it works; I was the one home at the time, not my husband.  The rules of the game?  The parent at home apparently gets blamed.  Come to find out, my husband blames me and holds me responsible for my son’s broken leg.  He won’t say it flat out, but he alludes to it; saying that I need to make sure to supervise him better.  Ya, thanks for the tip.  I let it happen; it’s my fault.  As if I don’t feel guilty enough.