Happy Mother’s Day! Well, happy two days late mother’s day. Did you
do anything fun? I had my family and Hubby’s family over here including
Grandparents and everybody, so that all amounted to twenty-five people.
It was a big crowd but really fun.

Oh! Guess what. I’m playing on the church softball team this year. I’m
so excited! I played ball growing up a pretty fair bit and have wanted
to play on a team since Handsome Hubby and I got married (that’s eleven
years ago now). The first couple years it never quite worked out and
then I spent nine years in baby production mode, which isn’t
terrifically conducive to organized sports. This year I am neither
pregnant nor nursing so I get to go show off how horribly rusty I am on
the ball field. Hurray!

Our first practice was Saturday. I haven’t been that sore in years!
Finally today (three days later) I could kind of climb the stairs in
my house in less than five minutes. Every major muscle group with the
inexplicable exception of my calves was mad at me. So depressing. I’d
always heard that once you get over thirty you don’t quite rebound the
same as when you’re younger, but it was all those ancient thirty-three
year olds telling me that when I was twenty-one and what did all those
old farts know anyway? Apparently I have now joined the farty sorority.
Yay, me.

On the plus side, I fielded better than I was really expecting to
considering it’s been over fourteen years since I played ball more than
once every couple years (in the off-pregnant year at Family Camp). I
got to play shortstop, which I love; third base, which isn’t too bad;
pitch a bit, which my skills at seem to have rusted out entirely but
I’m hoping the coach will let me practice on so I can sort that back
out because I really enjoy doing it; and a bit of outfield.

Outfield is nice when you can catch the pop flies and get those big
guys who think they are semi-pro material out, but overall it entails
wayyyyyy to much running back and forth. I was so tired on Saturday
when I got home that I collapsed on the couch for an hour and a half
and when I woke back up, I got straight into the shower just to
de-atrophy my muscles. So pathetic. That’ll be the worst of it though.
I’ll be a bit sore after this coming Saturday’s practice and then
should be fine after that. Actually, I’m glad for the exercise and
mostly just delighted that I get to play.

Not too much else going on over here. Georgie (age 8 ) and Anika (age 5)
had a little bump on the trampoline last week involving Georgie landing
on Ani’s arm. She couldn’t rotate it when it first happened and I
thought she might have fractured it; but there was no bruising, she
recovered pretty quickly, and she could rotate it almost all the way by
the end of the day. She didn’t complain any more after that and has
been bouncing around playing and doing all her normal rowdy kid stuff
with no problem, so I didn’t think much more of it after the first
couple of days.

Last night when I put her to bed I was teasing her and had her arm up
by her head. She squawked “ouch” and told me that it hurt right in the
middle of her forearm and hadn’t really gotten all the way better from
last week. She was a bit paranoid
about going to the doctor’s even though I told her they would just be
taking a picture, not giving shots.

So I spent a good part of today emailing back and forth with the
doctor’s office trying to decide whether or not to take her in and get
it X-rayed. She’s complained about it exactly once in the last week and
it doesn’t seem to be bothering her under most normal circumstances,
but it’s weird that it is still bugging her at all.

The doctor said that contusions and bumps heal by about the seventh day, so if there is any pain
or problem left after ten days to bring her in and have them check it
out. It’s not quite been ten days yet, so I’m going to try to let Anika
forget about it and then check on her again at the end of the week and
see if it still is giving her trouble. I’m hoping it will be nothing,
but I’m a bit suspicious. Guess we’ll see.

Rachel

Written by Rachel Shubin ~ Fiendish friend for effusive fun!