It's been a couple of months now, and after a pointed (and well deserved) nudge from Mark I am re-connecting to the blogosphere.
This summer certainly did go by quickly; it was lovely to see everyone again (especially Drew -- welcome back, now start your blog already, sheesh!). Of course communing with my niece and nephews was wonderful...I have seldom enjoyed such a smorgasbord of baby toes in my life, and I look forward to seeing more and more of them as time goes on! I just hope I won't have to wait too long to see the Foster childerns again...hopefully some time around the holidays, although with everyone living so far apart it's getting harder to handle the logistics (as I'm sure that Mickey and Margaret will agree). In any case, great times were had, many photographs were taken, much food was consumed. All as it should be!
In mid-August Matt and I had a little mini-vacation camping in the San Luis Valley / Sangre De Christos. It was the bees knees to get out of the city and into the crisp mountain air for a few days...we soaked in some natural hot springs, made campfire meals, visited the town of Crestone, and hiked up the Sand Dunes National Monument (I assure you it was NOT an easy hike, especially in Lady Loggers). I did get some photos during the trip but have been lazy about posting them...fear not, I will try to get some posted this very weekend. Many, MANY thanks to Mickey and Margaret for the use of their van and extensive camping gear; because of your generosity Matt and I truly camped in style!
Shortly after our return to Denver I had a minor spill on my scooter on a wet evening and shredded up the top of my right foot / ankle. Though I thought the injury was pretty superficial at the time, it turned out to be quite nasty in the long run -- extremely painful, ugly and in a bad spot in terms of being able to get around (and wouldn't school have to be starting up again on the following week!). Thanks to some pain meds, antibiotics from my primary care physician (and a good second opinion by Mark) I am now more or less healed up; there's a nasty scar and a scab but I'm getting around without crutches. Matt especially is to be commended for helping me out so much while I was off my feet; in fact, he even took off work to take (or more accurately, "carry") me to the doctor's office a day or two after the accident. A real troop!
Since then Matt and I have been thrown headlong back into the world of higher education. Matt in particular has it rough this time around as he's taking two advanced accounting / statistics classes online (which means a lot more homework), as well as one in-house class. I'm luckier this time around, as I'm taking one freshman and two sophomore level courses that have been lingering around unresolved in my curriculum matrix for some time. This of course means I have no excuse to not get straight A's this semester, so here's hoping I don't make a fool of myself later!
That's about all for now...sorry for the long absence (even if it hasn't been nearly as long as some other Fosters' last posts...you all know who you are!), but I hope to have some more photos posted soon.
Mark, I really should have taken up your suggestion of photographing my foot every day and putting the images together as an animation...man, that would have been GROSS! :-S
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Welcome back, Wendi. Your blogacious presence is both appreciated and needed in the Foster Blogosphere. Thank you for your comment on my blog today as well.
It was indeed quite the summer, and fall now encroaches, as noted both by your and Matt's re-matriculation in college, and by my own daughter's foray into kindergarten. As we walked into her kindergarten open house last night, the "elementary school smell" (a mixture of paint, erasers, kids, and a faint hint of mold) brought me back to Matt's and my days at Thorpe J Gordon Elementary.
There is even a crisp hint of autumn in the air up here in Worland tonight.
And as your foot recovers from the scooter spill, my ankle swells from a basketball blunder. I tweaked it good this morning, and I've been on crutches all day. A real bummer, as there is quite a bit I was hoping to do with my feet in the last few weeks of summer: golf, tennis, basketball, hiking. Driving a clutch is not cake-walk when you can't move your left ankle, either.
But I digress. Welcome back, and hopefully we can help get everyone's blogs back in action . . .
Hello there, Wendi! Glad to hear that you and Matt were able to have a little vacation...much deserved! Sorry about your foot. That sounds pretty nasty. I am amazed, though, at the body's ability to heal. Good luck with school - to both you and Matthew. Looking forward to more blogs... Oh, and has your niece been born yet? I would love to see pictures if she has! :)
Oh yes, I had nearly forgotten (although I don't know how)...my niece Hannah was born on August 9 at 9:26PM EST -- 7 lbs, 7 oz, 19" long. I'll be posting pics very soon!
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