On Healies

Brooklyn has been begging and begging for Healies (shoes with the skates on the bottom) for the past year. She is always borrowing her friends or using her cousins when she visits. I won't fork over the $45 for the shoes and she hasn't been able to save her money for them. We went to DI about 3 weeks ago and she happened to find a pair of healies in her size for $4. She used her own money for them and wore them all day for 5 days straight. On the 5th day she came home from school and put them on rode down our drive-way and BAM. Fell on the sidewalk. One of the wheels happened to catch on one of the cracks in the sidewalk and it tripped her. She fell on her wrist. Of course it was her writing arm. It was sore and kinda of just hung there. We let it go for about 5 days just splinting it, but decided if she was going to continue to play soccer for the next 6 weeks she better be in a cast if it was broken. We took her to get an X-Ray last week just to see and sure enough it was broken. We took her to Jay's office and he got to cast it. She chose purple, and now everything she wants to wear has to have some purple in it. Too funny. She was pretty excited to wear the cast, but 1 1/2 weeks later she is ready for the thing to be off. Only 4 1/4 more weeks to go. At least she still gets to play soccer. All she has to do is bubble wrap it before games.


Note to self....Healies are not as cool as they seem.