So yesterday started off fairly bad. Some days mom just wants to get dressed by herself, without her two little extra limbs under her feet, maybe a few minutes to go to the bathroom and wash my face ..... NOPE! so there was frustration and grumpiness all round. Then Grace wanted some pear, sweet no problem, out came the bread board, the knife and the pear, sliced some off and she was happy and finally off to play. Then my sweet friend rang to see if we wanted to come over for tea and a play. While briefly on the phone and away from the counter/bench Miss Grace pushed the chair up to the bench and attempted to cut her own slice of pear and proceeded to slice down the side of her finger. Tears, screaming and blood pouring everywhere and i mean everywhere! Tried to stop the bleeding and got a wet facecloth and was applying pressure while remaining calm, distracting the wounded soldier and placating her worried counterpart. The blood wouldn't stop so put a band-aid on and still it was coming out of that .... rang our wonderful friend Virginia who is the emergency doctor and off we went to Emergency. Virg had to glue it (if she had been a bit older she would have got stitches!) and put steri-strips on and then a band-aid and our little soldier was a real trooper in the ER, a few tears but all and all pretty calm about the whole thing. It totally helps that she knows and likes Virg for sure. Was this all bad karma cause i was a grumpy mom!!!
I re-enacted the pear and knife for you
here she is "hiding"
So yesterday started off fairly bad. Some days mom just wants to get dressed by herself, without her two little extra limbs under her feet, maybe a few minutes to go to the bathroom and wash my face ..... NOPE! so there was frustration and grumpiness all round. Then Grace wanted some pear, sweet no problem, out came the bread board, the knife and the pear, sliced some off and she was happy and finally off to play. Then my sweet friend rang to see if we wanted to come over for tea and a play. While briefly on the phone and away from the counter/bench Miss Grace pushed the chair up to the bench and attempted to cut her own slice of pear and proceeded to slice down the side of her finger. Tears, screaming and blood pouring everywhere and i mean everywhere! Tried to stop the bleeding and got a wet facecloth and was applying pressure while remaining calm, distracting the wounded soldier and placating her worried counterpart. The blood wouldn't stop so put a band-aid on and still it was coming out of that .... rang our wonderful friend Virginia who is the emergency doctor and off we went to Emergency. Virg had to glue it (if she had been a bit older she would have got stitches!) and put steri-strips on and then a band-aid and our little soldier was a real trooper in the ER, a few tears but all and all pretty calm about the whole thing. It totally helps that she knows and likes Virg for sure. Was this all bad karma cause i was a grumpy mom!!!
I re-enacted the pear and knife for you 
here she is "hiding" 
oh dear! that sounded awful! glue? yikes!
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