Wax on...Wax off...

I can't believe it has been nearly THREE MONTHS since I last blogged. What a blog slacker I am. My sis-in-law Shawna has been on me to update my blog, so here goes. I haven't blogged in so long because things have been super busy for us! They have slowed down..in fact, they've come almost to a complete stop for me, but I'll explain that in a minute.

As most of you already know I take and teach Taekwondo (My part time job is with an after-school taekwondo program). I've been involved with this Martial Arts school for a long time.I've been training very hard for the last few months for my black belt testing. On March 7 I did a required fitness test and I finished with my best time so far! So alot of my free time was spent excercising and training for that. After I was done with the fitness test I had to focus on making sure that I knew ALL of the forms and staying in shape for the actually testing. It's taken alot of time and effort.

Well, my testing was Saturday (the 28th). I sparred, did my self-defenses, did all of the forms (that's six full forms-all in a row, exhausting) and then came time for the board breaking. I've done these board breaks many times over the last few months so I didn't expect anything to be different. I went to break the kick...a run, jump side-kick...the board broke (thankfully) and as I came back down I landed very wrong on my knee. After laying in pain for a little while I got up and went and broke my second and final board with a spin elbow and thankfully it broke too! So the good news is, I am an official black-belt now....the bad news is that I have a possible torn ACL in my left knee. I go back to the doc next week after he gets my MRI results in and we will decide if surgery is in my future. In the meantime, I started physical therapy (aka torture) yesturday.

I'm not sure now what will happen with my part-time job. I kinda need my knee to demonstrate when teaching the kids. If it is surgery that I need then I will not be able to do Taekwondo for 6 months. This job has been the perfect set-up for me. I take little T with me and he loves every second of it. How many jobs can you take your two-year old with you?? The owners of the school are absolutely wonderful and are great friends of mine, and, honestly, Tommy and I have enjoyed that little extra income each month.

So, I'm hoping that the results will come back and surgery will not be the answer :). We'll see next week! In the meantime, I am chasing my two year old around on crutches. Fun stuff! ;)

I'm going to try to do better now about updating this! Here are some pics that you missed out over the past few months...