Renee, I just saw your comment on my “about me” page. Wow! You know, I have to say, in all this time I’ve never met another parent whose child was in the cast past 8 weeks like our son was. I know it’s generally tied to the age of the child so maybe it’s just more common for 2 and 3 year olds to break their leg? I don’t know.
April 20th…I was just doing the math in my head – less than a week! I’m sure you can hardly wait at this point. I think probably the most appropriate piece of advice I could give is probably just to manage expectations for everyone. Actually, more for the parents than your son.
In our case at least, I had all these ideas of how the day was going to go and I built it up to be the best day ever. Don’t get me wrong – I was so very grateful to have him out of the cast. But the journey to walking, and then running, and eventually jumping – it was weeks.
Time and space help so much. I was telling someone on Sunday what a difference it was for me from a year ago Easter. For some reason, just seeing him miss everything related to that week was just especially difficult for me. This year, nothing extra special happened but in a way, I was glad it was an “usual” holiday because that gave me the ability to not be in a valley or on a mountain. But instead, just be able to look both to the past and see everything that we had a year later. And I think it was probably oneof the most meaningful Easter holidays I’ve ever had as a result of where we were a year ago.
Here’s a story from just last night. Our son is going through a growth spurt right now (yay! love those!) and when he does that, he tends to not sleep well. It was 3am this morning and suddenly the lights in our bedroom flipped on.
There was our 5-year old, standing on top of the dresser where he had climbed up onto in the dark so he could turn on our lights. I heard myself telling him to get down or he’d break his leg falling. I hope I stop saying that sooner rather than later!
Wishing you all the best next week, and I hope you have a smooth transition.
