It is done. High school is officially over for my oldest child. This isn't going to be the tear-jerking, photo-heavy post you usually see around graduation time, because that isn't how Kayley's high school career ended. Believe me, there have been tears! And drama. But no pomp and circumstance. No cap and gown. No photo slideshow, sheet cake, or signatures in a guest book. And now that we're finally past all of it, I'm not sure who is …
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Broken Leg Complication: Blood Clots!
Alternate title: how my teenager spent the worst Christmas of her life. So, I mentioned that my 17-year-old broke HER right leg, just a couple of weeks after I broke MY leg, and how it just added another level of fuckery to our already upside-down world. She broke the same bone that I did, although her fracture was just a vertical, hairline crack along the back of her leg. She was in tremendous pain, and spent almost two weeks lying on the …
Kayley’s Bad Luck – mommy daughter matching broken legs!
So, y'all know I fell and broke my leg last month. Some of you may not know, however, that my teenager ALSO FELL AND BROKE HER LEG. Yeah. I don't know what the odds are of such an event happening twice in one family so close together - but I am a woman who had two sets of twins in the span of 17 months, so I shouldn't have been surprised, I suppose. Here's the story: Kayley was walking to the bus stop to pick up the littles after school last …
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