An ER Visit....

Sitting outside the very crowded waiting room.

Hannah's eye while waiting

So the long story is this.... Monday evening we were sorta having a rough one around here and Hannah had been sent to her room till dinner was ready. She was crying (not a huge surprise) when all of the sudden it got much louder! It was a cry that I did not recognize and so I thought that maybe she was throwing a tantrum (about this I actually was surprised). Ok and here is the part that I am still not sure that I should admit but as I heard her coming out of her room ... a very frazzled, tired, trying to make dinner mother said .... "you had better be nigh unto death to be coming out here screaming like that!" And then I turned around.... There she stood holding her eye with blood gushing between her fingers!!! I about died!! At first I thought that she said the dog had bitten her and I was so afraid to move her hand. But I did and found that what had happened was that the dog had scratched her eye lid slicing it open about half an inch. But let me tell you when it first happened it looked like the longest half inch that you have ever seen! After going back and forth about what to do we called a doctor friend who said that we should go in. Of course it was just after five and the doctors office was closed so into the emergency room we went. After five and a half hours they called us back and cleaned out the wound, glued it shut and sent us on our way with a prescription for antibiotics.



Worried while waiting for the doctor.


Waiting for the glue to dry.

After hearing a few stories about untreated dog scratches while in the ER I was very thankful that we had had a doctor friend to call for advice as I was not going to take her in! To top off the night I almost passed out when the nurse was cleaning her eye!! I think that it was a combo of tiredness, hunger and relief mixed in with a healthy dose of queasiness due to all that we had seen while waiting in a very overcrowded waiting room! Anyway, that has never happened to me and poor Hannah was so worried! They actually had to give me juice and crackers and sit and rest my head. I think that the only thing that stopped me from actually going out was knowing how bad Hannah would freak out! Like I said long story long ... all is well now and her eye though many shades of purple is healing nicely! Thank the Lord it could have been so much worse!


A photo captured by daddy ...sleeping peacefully in the morning.

Gone Fishin....

So for Brock's birthday..... way back at the end of March when asked what he wanted he said that what he really wanted was to go fishing..... in a boat! So for his birthday Greg and I got him a little pole and planned to go out fishing. However like life always seems to do ... it got busy! We were either sick, out of town or some other craziness was happening. Anyway, last weekend we finally went out fishing in a boat. We had a wonderful day! The funny thing though... we didn't catch not one fish! Brock was so excited, we woke up early and got McDonald's for breakfast per Brock's request and then went to a lake about 20 min. from our house that rents nice little boats. We tooled around and Brock sang row, row, row your boat while he used the oar to help row the boat (every time the motor went off the oar went in). He thought that that was the second best part of the day! The first part.....swimming! It was a beautiful day! The weather was warm and the lake wonderfully cool. We pulled up into this gorgeous little cove and got off to run on the beach. Next thing we knew Brock was in the water first he was up to his knees and then he was up to his waist next thing we knew he was asking if he could get all the way in. Soon he was out swimming all around and having a grand ol' time! It was really nice to get to spend some quality time with just one of the kids. And Brock was so excited to go out fishing....on a boat. As for fish......ah who needs fish anyway?!?

Decade Day....

Every once in a blue moon the kids school has a "spirit" day. They had one this month and it was decade day. Aubrie was home sick and Emma had PE so didn't want to do it....but Hannah... of course she wanted too! She only decided that she wanted to on the morning of so we were quickly trying to piece something together. So we went with the decade that I knew best and was easiest for me....the 80's! We pulled out the dress-up make up with the bright blue eye shadow and ripped some jeans and tight rolled them (kinda) and gave her big hair! I thought that she was adorable! It was so funny though...when Aubrie saw her she was like... mom you didn't really dress like that did you???? Like what? I asked. With big hair?....ummm yup.....and ewww blue eye shadow....ummm yup(as much as mom and dad would let me that is)...but you didn't rip your jeans did you??....ummmm....yup! And then with an eye roll....Oh Dear! Hee hee!! Man I miss the 80's...Not!