Saturday, December 29, 2012

Anna's Bright Red Cast



Anna is a pretty amazing athlete.  She is naturally inclined to any sport, especially soccer, volleyball, swimming, tennis, etc.  Give her a ball, give her a team, and she'll perform...and really well.  She won the golden key award in high school for the most athletic girl.    She is so very coordinated that she catches on to all things kinesthetic quickly.  So, you can imagine her shock when her right foot just stopped functioning during a soccer game.  She ruptured her Achilles tendon.  She was incredulous.   She is now in a cast and will be for at least 8-12 weeks.  I must mark it here in the blog, because it's real news in our life.  I feel like I need to say "Anna does not get hurt!"  She even said this to the doctor at the hospital...."I've played sports my whole life and I have never been seriously injured.

Anna is the "active" mom.  The mom who initiates taking the kids out hiking, skiing, skating, swimming, sporting...I am just the tag along photographer, or the athletic wannabe.  And now, the tables have turned.  With winter here in it's full snowy glory, and snow sports pretty much a right of all Vermont citizens, I have been taking the boys out in the snow.  We've been sledding, sliding, digging, and today we went x-country skiing.  This cracks me up.  I will not move for myself, but for my kids I seem to be able to do anything.  Amazing, truly amazing.  All I can hope for is a speedy healing of Anna's Achilles.   Otherwise it's going to be a long and active 12 weeks of winter for me.   But wait...maybe that's a good thing!



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