On a Personal Note

Hello my online friends! My daughter is a little more than 9-months old now, and I thought I would share a recent picture. I have not been blogging as much lately (not for lack of desire or ideas, but for reasons I will explain here), and I know my posts have been less frequent and shorter than usual. So, I thought I would dedicate this post to giving you all a little update on what has been going on in my world.

I have lots of great ideas that I hope to share here soon, but for the past two months I have been dealing with a broken foot. This seems innocent enough, and one might think being confined to the couch would provide lots of time for blogging. But, it has actually been quite the opposite.

I broke my fifth metatarsal in January, and I have not been able to drive or carry my baby for the past two months. It was a simple accident - I tripped going down the stairs in our house and landed on my foot wrong. When it happened, my daughter could not even crawl yet and now she is cruising around trying to walk!

It was a surprisingly bad break and is taking a long time to heal. I had just returned to work from maternity leave and had to take another three weeks off. Then, I returned to work hoping that my foot was on the mend, but the doctor said I wasn't healing properly and scheduled surgery immediately. I took another two weeks off work and just returned to work for the third time.

I am still on crutches and have two 5-inch pins in my foot. My husband, family, and friends have been so helpful through it all. They have all prepared food, taken care of the baby, shuttled me to numerous doctor's appointments and x-rays, and provided lots of moral support. I have learned a lot from the whole situation, and I hope to share some of my insights here in the near future.

As a side note, for those of you who know my husband, he finally had ear surgery last week to fix his surfer's ear. Surfers here suffer from surfer's ear because bone forms over the ear canal to protect it from the cold water. He has been waiting for this surgery for over a year, and we finally received the approval which gave us 30 days to have the surgery. So, needless to say, it has been pretty interesting in our household lately.

In short, instead of blogging I have been spending my time crawling around after my daughter, tending to my broken foot, arranging care for myself and my husband, and trying to resume my duties at my "real" job. But, I'm not complaining because these have all been fulfilling in their own way. I believe these things happen for a reason, and for a dozen reasons I think this may have been a blessing in many ways.

I still have another 2-4 weeks before I will be allowed on my foot again, and even then I'll be in a boot for a while. Until I am able to return to a normal posting schedule, I hope you will continue to keep Just Plain Joy on your blogroll. I have also been blogging over at Central Coast Parent, so if you haven't checked it out I encourage you to visit! Thank you for being loyal readers!

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