I am going to take a moment to whine, so stop reading if you don't want to hear it would rather me just tell you in person. It started yesterday morning when Abby and I came into the kitchen as Chris was gathering his things to leave. Major work crisis -"1 to 2 hours to fix". Four hours later, called Chris who said the problem was "bigger than expected and the fix wasn't co-operating". Whatever. At this point it was noonish, so I started trying to make the kids lunch and I had the fridge opened because I was trying to counteract the heating system by cooling with the fridge figure out what to fix. As I turned around, I saw libby coming at me with a glass BBQ sauce bottle and as I start to tell her to give it to me and reach towards her to get it, she drops it, glass shatters everywhere and Lib is in the middle of a BBQ glass shattered mess. She starts screaming and I grab her and take her over to the sink to see how badly she's cut. Luckily I had just done the dishes so I had room to lay her mostly in the sink with just her chest on the counter. Even though she was screaming bloody murder, I could only find one smallish cut and one that was pretty bad. I was looking for glass in her foot, but luckily there was none. I grabbed a kitchen towel and tried to stop the bleeding while running around looking for bandages. Unfortunately, all our gauze and major wound care has been used for playing doctor by abby and chris, but fortunately we happened to have huge band aids in the cabinet. I was freaked out because I was by myself and running around holding libby while trying to stop the bleeding. But I handled it and was proud of myself! I got her in her high chair, gave her motrin and held a Capri sun to her foot to help the pain (it was cold?!). Anyway, Chris had to work all night last night and today and my mom hurt her knee really bad yesterday so when I brought the girls out to see her, abby was acting really crazy because she was worried about my mom and manifesting it in the way of a 3 yr old. We came home @ 5:30, got to spend 1 hr of quality family time together, put the kids to bed and now I am in the office with chris, FREEZING TO DEATH! I don't know why I am so cold – maybe it's because I set the thermostat on 66?? We'll, if you'd seen the power bill this month, you'd be freezing too!
Ok, for the non bad part, I just wanted to say how much I love Chris and how proud I am of him. It is definitely a team effort for our little family, and sometimes I don't know who has the harder job – him or meJ
4 comments:
So sorry to hear about your drama, drama, drama! Hang in there! I'm sending happy thoughts your way. And if it gets too bad, let me know and I may be able to arrange a visit.
It's days like that, that help you appreciate the good ones. That reminded me of when Anna almost had her finger cut off and my neighbor/nurse drove with me to the hospital. She was so sweet. I took her over there to see if she needed stitches... I couldn't look. Yep... Her finger tip was talking. GROSS!!! She screamed for 6 hours straight. I didn't want to pass-out until they did the last stitch and were putting bandages on. It's amazing we (mothers) have the strength to get through it and then when it's over is when we collapse! GO MOMS!!!!
And of course DADs for putting up with us MOMs!!!!
I love our family! With all the craziness! They are great!
Poor little Libby---What did Abby do when this was happening???
ughh....it reminded me of when we were supposed to be watching mark but were watching tv while he used a knife to cut open a hostess cake - but cut himself instead! abby was watching tv - never looked up from what she was watching:)
hahahah... that was my spend the night party when I was 12... HORRIBLE!!!!!!!
:) That's good that Abby didn't hear--She might have run through the glass. That wouldn't have been good!
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