After physical therapy on Christmas Eve morning I made the trip to my parent's house in Novi. I arrived around 1:00 and didn't have a lot of time to hang out before we headed over to my Aunt's for Christmas Eve. My cousin's daughter Kassie wore me out playing catch with her ball. She's only four years old and has one heck of an arm. I'm predicting a softball player. It was a lot of fun, great food and was great to spend some time with my family. After dinner we exchanged presents. Opening presents is always much more exciting when there are little kids around. Kassie had a stack of presents and it was fun to watch her tear open the paper and show everyone what she got. It was really funny when she was opening her gifts and would come to a box that was clothes, she would kind of look at and think, what is this? Then toss it aside and on to the next one. Needless to say she was not a fan of clothes. We headed home and I ended up watching a movie with my mom (well she slept on the couch while I watched it) It was called "Cider House Rules." It was a really good movie and I recommend it to anyone that hasn't seen it.
Christmas Day I slept in a little bit and woke up to pancakes and eggs. I timed that just right, I wish I could wake up to that every day. My parents and I exchanged presents. I think we all made out really well. My dad ended up buying himself a 16' Kayak for Christmas. Pretty nice. I had been looking at Kayaks for a little while and reading up on them in magazines at Barnes & Nobles, now I have a little pressure to get one of my own. It would be fun to head out with my dad. And with Lake Michigan only 35 minutes away, that would be a blast to take it out when there are some good waves. My mom spent the day in the kitchen cooking my favorite meal; turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc… This is my absolute favorite and was as good as usual. She invited my grandma and Aunt over for dinner. I don't get to see them all that often so I'm really glad they came over and it was great to see them again. I even didn't mind that they ate some of my mom's famous stuffing J I did notice my grandma trying to sneak a second helping… just kidding. After dinner I relaxed for a little bit and around 8:30 packed up the car and headed back to Kalamazoo. I couldn't miss my physical therapy session on Wednesday morning. I'm progressing so well that I can't afford to mess that up. Friday I make the trip back to the doctors for some more x-rays and to find out if I can start doing some strength programs with my leg. I'm predicting that the doc is going to be shocked with how well I'm doing. I'll keep you all posted.
Well I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Christmas.
