So here it is nearly...

So here it is nearly a year later since I first posted, unlike a few of my friends I just can't keep up with this thing.

So much has occurred in this year since my first post.  Summer came and went, our Field Band kids came in First place in the State of New York.  It was an amazing season for them all!  We went to NYC to see the kids perform and my fear of the City of New York bubbled to the top.  I just don't do well in the city.  The drivers there are crazy!  On more than one occasion I thought for sure that I was going to have my car smashed in.  Thank goodness I was not driving!

We went home to MA for Thanksgiving...what a nice adventure that is.  Made easier by the consumption of my favorite wine, Casa Larga's Lilac Hill.  It makes everyone more tolerable.

Christmas also came and went and we celebrated here and then went to MA later in the day.  The kids had a good time.  I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!  The drive home was the scariest moments of my life.  I will never again travel I-90 in the winter.

January brought some health issues.  I fell and broke my tailbone and thought that the pain I was feeling in my back would go away on their own. Not the case.  I pulled every muscle in my lower back and have now been receiving Physical therapy since the beginning of February.  I haven't been able to go back to work since this incident.  PT is 2 times a week which is quite painful.  Then I  opened my mouth and told my doctor about this pain I had in my stomach.  It happened 2 times, excruciating pain, I couldn't sleep and nothing helped.  She sent me for an ultrasound only to find that I have gallstones and that the gallbladder has got to come out.  WHAT!  I petrified to death of going under general anesthia, it scares me.  This will be a routine, according to the surgeon, surgery where they cut 4 tiny incisions into my abdomen and remove the gallbladder laporoscpy. This will be happening in April, why so long, well I have to schedule it around my daughters Winterguard schedule and it seems like the best time. 

I hope that once everything is healed I will be able to go back to work and enjoy the summer with the kids!