ShenanINGRAMS

AH HA! So, it's not torn badly enough to require surgery, which makes me very thankful. I've been told to take it easy (ha ha ha) and wear a brace if I run, and to try not to tear it any more. If I knew how I had done the damage in the first place, that advice may have come in handy. However, since I have no idea which of my many accidents caused the damage, perhaps I should just stick to the brace. :)

We celebrated our spring break early, simply because it's not yet spring in Germany, but my parents came to visit. We took them to Luxembourg, Belgium, (where everything was closed and we had no waffles), rock climbing, race-car-driving (IF I HAVE TO HEAR 'MUSTANG' ONE MORE TIME....!!!!), and thrift-store shopping; not to mention the super lunch at Burg Lichtenberg. It was an amazing, quick, fun-filled, relaxing vacation. Caylea finally beat PaKenny at Chess, although there is some debate about the help she received. Joshua made it out of the PaKenny "Boring Family" attack with fewer bruises than I anticipated, and the massages we sent the grandparents to get had them completely melted. I know they had a good time and I hope we get to spoil them like that more often! I get to go find out if I need knee surgery today. It isn't one of those things you like to advertise, but there it is, and since I only managed to run 1/2 mile this morning before the give-...