Volleyball with a side of pain

We got up this morning and prepared for another fun-filled Saturday morning full of volleyball games for Emily.

Unfortunately, it didn't turn out that way.

She played her heart out through the first match, but they lost.

That's Sarah in the stripes, line judging.
Emily has on the long black shorts and tall white socks.

Then before the second match started, she and her teammates decided to explore. They found this set of steps that went up from the gym and they wanted to see what was at the top of them. It was the weight room. So they came back down the steps.

The Steps of Doom

And that's where the day went horribly wrong. Emily slipped or tripped or stumbled or something and went down the last 3-4 steps on her back. And if you look closely, you'll see that they're cement. No padding.

Long story short, Ex1 took her to the hospital, and I followed. The Dude took the boys and my van and went back to the house while we took care of her.

We honestly thought that she was fine. We figured that they'd do x-rays and say that nothing was broken and send her home - but we were ok with that because then we'd know that she was fine. After a lot of poking and prodding, a few hours, and several x-rays, it was determined that she did indeed end up with some minimal compression fractures in two of her vertebrae. The ER doctor feels that she won't need any sort of treatment or anything because they are minimal - but he wants her to take it easy for a few days and then follow up with our doctor on Monday.

So Ex1 gave me a ride back home since The Dude had taken my van, and Emily went and hung out with some friends to watch a movie (that had already been planned) for a few hours. She came home and crashed  on the couch pretty soon afterwards, and I'm just allowing her to sleep there tonight. If she's comfortable, I'm not going to make her move.

I swear, this week has it out for me for some reason. We had our drama from the other day and then this today - hopefully this is the end of it, because I'm exhausted and I need sleep.

Wednesday night randomness

It's been one of those days where I haven't done much, gotten much done, or thought about much of anything. I think after the chaos of yesterday, my brain just took a dump today.

Alex and Daniel are off school starting today for the rest of the week, so although I had to get Daniel back and forth to playschool, that was the only thing that I *had* to do today. And I enjoyed it. We did walk over to the grocery store at one point to pick up a few odds & ends, but other than that we didn't do much.

I did take a few pictures out in the flowerbed....

Oh and I did get Daniel's basketball inflated - he got it yesterday when we saw the 88 car. He was thrilled to have it, but unfortunately it got taken away soon after - my floor might look like a basketball court, but it's not. So after he bounced it inside the house one too many times, it got taken away and stashed.

The older 3 came back from their father's after school today, and there was the usual First Day Back At Mom's drama. It escalated, it got ugly, but then it subsided and finally, all is good again. Or at least it seems to be. For now.

Tomorrow, it's up bright and early (ugh) to get the older 3 to school by 7:30, and then Alex and Daniel and I can hang out for the day. Maybe I'll get them out to a park or something for a few hours and burn off some steam. I think Sarah's going to be doing something after school for a while - working the concession stand at a volleyball game or something - so we'll have to refigure how to get kid back and forth, but that's nothing new anymore.

Just when I think we have a plan, it changes.

Story of my life.