It’s been a rough winter.

Cooper sustained a buckle fracture in BOTH wrists during basketball practice right before Christmas break. He was able to get the casts off in time to play during his travel ball season, and now he’s working on regaining some of the grip strength he lost during the six weeks of cast and splint time.

Carys hyperextended the tendon in her arm during a basketball game and has been frantically rehabbing it to get healed in time for her tournament this weekend. Fortunately for her, we already possessed a pretty good arm brace from Cooper’s injury, so we were well prepared.

Emma became the third Gudahl in as many years to endure a broken nose. It happened during a rebounding drill at – you guessed it – basketball practice. She took one look in the locker room mirror, grabbed the bridge, and realigned it herself. She slapped an ice pack on it and told me in no uncertain terms that we would NOT be visiting the hospital. Rather, we would be driving to Mankato to pick up a faceguard because she had a game the next day and she would not be missing it.

Of course, everything happened RIGHT after the health insurance rolled over into a new year, ensuring that we will pay the absolute most amount of money possible on every bill. *sigh*

The good news? I’m still thinking. I’ll let you know.