Afflictions

Just last week I was thinking how lucky we were that our family has completely avoided all sickness this winter... and I totally jinxed it.  

Declan came down with an ear infection and has had a cough and runny nose all week.  Poor guy... and poor parents.  He is a very whiny patient.

Then Sam had a random freak accident.  

Story:  Garreth set up a very cool yarn zipline for Sam and Liam's "guys" that they have been loving all week long.

Well, Sam was standing on his train table, forgot that the zipline was right in front of him and jumped off.  The yarn hit him in the eye and cut the corner of his eye and basically gave him a rope burn on his eyeball.  Ouch! 

We spent that evening in the after hours clinic, where the doctor assured me that it looks much worse than it is, just a few broken capillaries that would heal on their own.  He gave us some drops to put in Sam's eye and sent us on our way, very relieved that our son would not be blind for the rest of his life.

It hasn't seemed to slow him down much.

With the energy level of our boys, it's actually a miracle that accidents like this don't happen more often.  We have never had any broken bones or even stitches.... knock on wood....

In other not so exciting news, I finally replaced the cartridge of my label machine and have been having way too much fun with it.

I do not deny being a total loser.  

Two of the best, most thoughtful presents Garreth ever gave me?  The label maker and my own laminator.  (Oh, and Sting concert tickets... and a cool bike... come to think of it, all his presents are great.)  But I digress.  

And I embrace my lameness.