Our sweet Catherine, the beautiful ballerina, has been benched for the rest of the year. Turns out BOTH ankles are injured in the same way ~ weird huh, only one of mine could've managed that! The x-rays show there is a chip missing from the interior bone on both ankles. She is in a cast on the right foot and will wear that for 4 weeks. After the cast she has to wear a boot for several weeks as we watch and pray that the bone will grow back properly.

We are just watching the left ankle right now (couldn't very well cast em both!  she is having enough trouble getting around with just one, sweetie keeps kicking herself in the back of her left leg with the cast) Hopefully, now that she is not dancing both ankles will heal. Ya know no more 'grande-jetes' and 'pas de chats' or whatever else she did.... However she did tell me earlier tonight that the left ankle is bothering her like the right one was before she got her cast.

Meanwhile, she is having a great time getting all her friends to sign her cast and can't wait to go to dance to visit (and have them sign!)

So if you think of her, please remember her in your prayers. We are both pretty bummed about her not being in ballet anymore. Although, we are enjoying our free afternoons, she was dancing 3 days a week, and now at class time we are free ~ blessedly free! We are praying for the casting to work completely and for both ankle bones to grow back like they should ~ because if they don't she will be looking at surgery.

In other news, our Homeschool Co-op ends next week, which is always bittersweet. While we will miss meeting with our friends and going to such great classes each week, we will enjoy not having to rush out of the house right after lunch on Tuesday's.

 My week seems to be emptying of the rush it has been all school year. We were out of the house every afternoon for something or another, and now all but one of these activities has ended. Feels almost surreal. It really has been nice. I actually sat down and created a menu for the first time since about September! And I have been home to actually COOK - standard fare this year has been me standing in the kitchen with glazed eyes about 5 or 6ish wondering what I can throw together or worse, calling Andre' and asking him where he wants to eat!!!

I am beginning to feel like a HOMEschool mom again, and it is very sweet.