Something is very sad and wrong about this picture!

It was only for a week but the family grew quite attached to seeing the couch look like this:

All because one of Stephanie’s growing collection of specialists wrote a lovely note vouching for her inability to work for a week allowing her to use her sick pay – a.k.a. staycation fund – to suck us into one of her many movies, laugh at random sillinesses that no one else sees and catch up on all of her exciting stories.

The reason for the lovely note?  A swollen bone.  Did you know bones could swell?  It’s actually a little tricky to make happen and exceptionally painful.  It seems bones don’t swell well because they can’t expand.  This is a bad picture of it but the bottom of her leg bone is a very bright white which equals not at all good.

Since it seems that Stephanie’s high heel collection is out for the next 3-4 months (dang her larger-than-my sized feet!) a shopping trip was the perfect cure for pretty much everything.  Well, that and a pedi. 

Check out the super cute flats!

Danielle is all kinds of excited because after ALL these YEARS – 14 to be exact – the sisters wear the same size shoe.  Now if only Dani can get her to give up the right one as well…