A broken foot

There is never a convenient time to break a bone, but I have to say, this month, this year, seems particularly inconvenient for Roy to trip and break a bone.  He fell on his way into the garage on Tuesday morning.  There were some shoes in the way, and Roy felt there was enough light that he didn't need to turn on the one in the garage, so he didn't see the shoes.  Now he is unable to put any weight on his foot for at least a month.  In two weeks  the Doctor will decide if it will heal without surgery or not.  I am praying for the moisture this winter to be rain, not snow in the valleys so I don't have to clear walks myself.  I can't read these x-rays very well, but I'll put them in here anyway.

At least we were able to get through Monday evening before this happened.  We had a "street" party at my house on Monday.  This was started by my neighbor, but it was more convenient to have it at my house--we invite just our street and the circle connected to our street, for an evening where everyone brings appetizers, and we do a little sub for Santa.  It's supposed to be in lieu of neighbor gifts, and it sort of works, but there are still a lot of people in the ward that do neighbor gifts that aren't connected to my street.  I don't love doing this party, because most of my friends in the ward don't live on my street, so I can't even invite them.  I found out last year that though people love to come to the party, no one else wants to host it.   Anyway, I offered to do it one last time--the neighbor that started it always does the invitation and handles the sub for Santa details.  It's pretty easy because we just give everything to the bishop and let him distribute it.

Luckily, that was the only holiday party we had scheduled for the week because I came down with a bad cold on Tuesday that was worse on Wednesday, and finally eased up around now. (Monday morning).  Caitlyn caught it on Friday, and Jennie says she may be coming down with it.  Isn't that always the case in December--the month you really want everyone to be healthy.

We are looking forward to Elise and Andy coming on the 17th.  Sara's not looking forward to surgery on her sinuses on the 16th.  Nick is taking two weeks off (originally to spend time with Andy and Elise, but now to take care of Sara).

I was able to spend a little time with my sweet grandchildren this week.  Ori and Effie came over Wednesday for a couple of hours.  I made play dough for Ori and she loved it.  She played with it almost the whole time.  Effie was really sweet and happy and took a little nap.  Adrienne made dinner for us Thursday night to show her love for her dad (with his broken foot), but she didn't bring the boys in.  And Jieun made lunch/dinner for us Saturday for the same reason.  I told her it would be much appreciated, but that their family should stay and eat with us, which they did and we loved it.

We are so blessed to have such a loving family--everyone has been so willing to help us out at this time.

I hope this letter doesn't sound negative.  We know and are very aware that we have lots of blessings. We have been enjoying this Christmas season a lot.  Roy and I have been watching lots of Christmas shows in the evening and getting into the holidays spirit.

At church our Bishop's wife asked me if Roy wanted them to bring the sacrament to him.  I said, "He's at church in the YSA ward."  Roy got up early and went to all his meetings.  Nothing can slow him down--well, not very much anyway.  He is a little slower with that cumbersome walking tool he has.