Winding down in AZ

I want to start by saying that where I was over the past three+ weeks is the first time in the history of our family that I have had the opportunity to stay with one of my children's family for this length of time, and when none of the time was a vacation for their family. I lived with them and watched their family dynamics day by day. This has been a great experience.

I know all of us live on hectic schedules and the Eurys in AZ are no exception. Their week days being at an astonishingly early hour. The baby in the family, Bella, who is almost 4 now, wakes first, somewhere around 5:30AM every day, as if she has an alarm clock that goes off at that time. From that point on, it is one mad dash after another but done very smoothly. Sofia, who just turned 12 while I was there, is the first to go to school. Usually Cris takes her to her school downtown leaving at 7:00 while Tag and the other two are still getting breakfast squared away. Then Alex has to be driven to school before 8am. Cris tries to be home by 10:30 in order to nap Bella for about an hour. Soon it will be time to pick up Sofia and Alex around 3 (although, sometimes Sofie gets a ride home).

My time of better than three weeks were filled with fun, reading to grandchildren, playing games with the family, waiting on Tag to get home from is extended work/class days. Grabbing a taped Oprah or two late in the evening after kids were in bed, and learning about a self-help healing therapy called Jin Sen Jutzu (Sp?) and all that goes with it.

This was coming to an uneventful close until early Saturday morning, May 10, as I was tying to quietly take Bella down to the kitchen to get her something to eat (it was 5 AM), I slipped on the stairs near the bottom of theI made m and broke my right ankle in 2 places. The rest of my stay was spent being waited on and helped with every move I made after I took a trip to an ER and got the bad news on an x-ray that I had fractures. They placed me in a splint and sent me on my way. I flew home Monday morning, the 12th, and have been in recovery mode since. I had surgery on my "breaks" with screws and plate on Monday May 19 to get me on the road to recovery faster. I also had JSJ to help with this healing process, thanks to Cris and her tireless devotion of teaching me what I needed to know in order to speed up the recovery.

It was a wonderful trip and time well spent. Yes, I would have loved to have left on a healthier note but it sure gave a challenge to my son and his wife taking care of me for those last two days. They were wonderful and I know they were relieved when I boarded that plane allowing them to get back to just their hectic schedule. Thanks, Guys!! Pics will come later...