Happy Valentine's Day!

Early, I know, but the kids are celebrating today with classroom parties so it seems like today is the big day. They are both so excited. They took their little valentines and treats for their classes and were all jazzed up this morning. Maddie is dressed in her little red sweaterdress with leggings and sparkly shoes (red, of course) and a red sparkly hair bow. She looks adorable.

Brady? In sweats and his "Feed Me" t-shirt. At least it's red. Right? It seemed more appropriate for him. All Brady, all the time.



Glynn and I have collectively decided to not buy each other valentine's gifts this year, but to instead maybe enjoy a dinner out together if we can beg for a babysitter. We'll put the money from the gifts into our practice nest egg instead.

Speaking of the practice......we've got our business plan all together and tweaked until perfect. It's really great, Glynn did most of it but I got to put my spin on part of it too, and I have to say, we did a pretty spectacular job (but I give most credit to him). If THAT doesn't help get our practice loan, I don't know what will. Maybe sending them a box of puppies with little red bows around their necks? I give up guessing what banks want these days. No matter WHAT our fearless leader Obama says.

Let's see, what else? Oh, yes, Jodie's medical update:

After the nerve ablation last week, I initially had a decrease in pain for a few days, but now it's coming back, just a different type of pain than I had before. This time it's more sharp, stabby, and electric-shock-y type of pain. It hurts quite a bit, but it's a means to an end. It's simply the nerve in the process of dying and waving a little white flag, but it's putting up a fight to the very end, so this is normal. It could be 4 to 6 weeks of more pain as the nerve slowly dies, but the good news is that it eventually WILL. And I've been in pain for so long, that what's a few more weeks? It's wearing me out a bit and I'm a bit cranky with it, but it WILL be over soon. I have hope.

I've had a pretty busy week of patients that have been marathon cases, so I'm worn out today. I think I'll try to cut out early and get a bit of rest before I need to go get the kids. We'll see. If I can get through the mountain of paperwork that I've been skillfully avoiding this week (I'm nothing if not an EXCELLENT procrastinator), then all will end well as we go into this THREE DAY WEEKEND! On which we are hoping to re-visit the potty-training issue with Brady. He will go for us but doesn't want anything to do with pull-ups or big boy underwear. The dude likes his diapers! Guess they are a bit more insulating, and they do tend to cushion his (many) falls off the couch or whatever else he is superman-ing off of that particular moment.

{{{pause in blogging for patient treatment}}}


Whew! Let the marathons continue!!! Sheesh! Have these kids ever even SEEN a toothbrush? I'm exhausted!!!


Too tired to continue this post, must save hand strength for writing up epic novels worth of charts.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Please brush after eating all of that candy. :)