Thornton Mom

Annelise and I commiserated together.  We both have boots just on different feet.  The kids were cute getting stuff for each of us because we were proped up on the couch.  Mom was sweet and took on all the responsibility of taking care of us.  One day Annelise's foot started hurting so bad she could not walk.  It didn't make any sense.  She has continued to be in excruciating pain without knowing what the problem was.  How blessed I feel to know what is wrong and to know that it will have an end. Yesterday Annelise finally got her answer.  She has CRPS ( Complex regional pain syndrome) which means that her body thinks her foot should be in pain and sends signals to the foot to be in pain.  It will never go away but she will start physical therapy and pain management therapy to learn how to deal with it and to hopefully put it in remission.  Poor dear!!  Book of Mormon, Helaman 11:37-38 ...

My birthday was last week.  It was a memorable birthday, I have never had a broken bone on my birthday before.  We woke up and cleaned the Lake House and then drove home.  Dad T. drove my car and Mom T. drove his.  We stopped at Wendy's for lunch and then were back on the road again.  About 20 min. away from Wendy's I realized I had left my purse at Wendy's.  With the crutches in my hands I had forgotten to grab my purse.  We raced back, said lots of prayers, and were blessed that someone turned my purse in and nothing was harmed.  What a great blessing!!  What a great birthday present. John Derek made me this cute flag out of legos as well as a sign that read "Happy Birthday" out of legos.  Derek brought me home an orchid, my mother and grandmother got me a beautiful church outfit, Mom and Dad T gave me a beautiful scarf, and I bought myself feather dusters.  I told my children they were magic and they didn't believe me.  ...

 We had our July 4th swim meet.  The kids got to put patriotic tattoos all over themselves.  They thought it was awesome.  Only after a few races we had a huge storm blow in and the meet was cancled.  When I told our coach that our family would not be there the next day because we were out of town she was not happy.  My family leaving takes 4 of her swimmers.  It was one time that I felt like having a big family really does make a good difference. Our next meet I missed as I have my broken foot.  My sweet sister in law and mother in law took them to the meet.  Derek was out of town.  It was very sweet of them. Angela has taken such good care of me.  She got the kids to the meet, invited the girls for a sleep over with Amber before she left on her mission.  Will brought JD home from the meet.  Then at 12:30 in the morning I got a call from Elizabeth and Maddison was throwing up.  Will cleaned her up and got h...

Wednesday began Summer Track out!!  Elizabeth went off to girls camp and me and the kids went up to the Lake House.  Thursday we went swimming in the lake.  I thought it was great because Michael could swim by himself with his new floaty and Samantha was taking such good care of him that I didn't have to get in the water.  But after several please to get in the water and my desire to exercise for the day I decided to jump in.  While pushing off with my right foot I heard a snap and felt pain in my foot then landed in the water.  I poped up saying "ouch" as calmly as I could.  But my kids knew something was wrong.  They tried to help me and finally I got out of the water. To make a long story short Dad T. took me to the ER and I had broken my 2nd Metatarsal bone, the bone above my 2nd toe.  So here I sit with people waiting on me hand and foot, taking care of my children and being awesome.  Michael has adopted Uncle Heath and Aunt S...