Mid-winter break

The girls had Friday off school for conferences. We got those done in the morning, and spent the rest of the day at Target (clothes shopping), the dealership (oil change and lots of free hot cocoa), Barnes & Noble (two used books each), and McDonald's (thanks for the coupons, Grandma C!).

On Saturday morning, Katie had her last basketball game of the year. She had a rebound and a shot! G&G Christensen came up to watch the game, and we all celebrated at Sumo Sushi for lunch. The girls ate their weight in edamame, I think, because there were piles of shells everywhere!  Then we started our journey to Graytown, not knowing that there was a snow squall in downtown Detroit that caused many accidents and closed I-75 in two places!  It was a long, slow drive, but we made it.  We had chili for dinner, and watched MSU cruise to victory.

On Sunday, we went to church with G&G, then brunch at Blackberry Corners, then a visit at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.  It was way too cold and windy to go on a nature walk, but we saw a huge bald eagle's nest, and got to drive through the refuge, which is usually closed to cars.  We had to drive home Sunday night, because poor Chris had to go back to work today.

But the girls are still off school til Wed! Today we met our friends for lunch and for a play date at a gymnastics center all afternoon. My friend Shari works there, and told us about the open gym today.









The great thing about this gymnastics place is that it has open gym hours on Mon and Wed afternoons for homeschool kids! Katie's so excited to go back next week! Katie is at a sleepover tonight, enjoying time with her school friends. We'll get her back tomorrow morning, and find some new adventures together for our last day of mid-winter break!

PS - Update on Megan's finger - no real news.  We went to a hand specialist on Wed, at the advice of our pediatrician.  (The ER radiologist gave a conflicting report).  The hand specialist said it was likely fractured, but he wouldn't do anything but tape it anyways, so he didn't order any additional x-rays.  He checked movement of all tendons, etc and gave her the all-clear.  Meg's out of the splint and now is just "buddy-taped" with her middle finger.  She is sooo happy to have movement back!  Her finger and knuckles are still bruised and look terrible, 11 days later!  I saw three nurses today (friends) and they all said her finger must have been broken to be so bruised for this long.  We are lucky that Megan hasn't been in pain...such a tough kid!

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