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By Moriah on June 19th, 2010
WHEW.
I’m happy to say I survived the No Internet For A Week. No car, either, for three days of it. (We had the timing belt changed and new front tires, water pump, etc. on my van and let me just tell you, that bill was a doozy.)
About Madeline. Last Saturday evening, she came hopping in the front door, screaming, blood everywhere. She had stepped on a piece of a broken glass jar on the neighbor’s “other” front porch. (They have two doors since the house was originally a duplex, but they don’t use the one on our side for usual coming and going. The kids play there but that’s about it.) My neighbor said she had known there was glass on the stoop but hadn’t had time to sweep when she first saw it and then forgot about it.
(One of those unfortunate nobody’s-fault-but-everyone’s-fault-all-at-the-same-time-s.)
I called another neighbor to come help me and we got the cut rinsed and bandaged and then wiped up all the blood she had tracked in.
I didn’t want to open her cut to see how deep it was, but I figured if I couldn’t get it to stop bleeding I’d have to take her in. (Which, let’s face it, alone with four kids on a Saturday night – a trip to the ER was something I did NOT want to do.)
And now, here it is a week later, her foot is almost healed and she was finally able to start walking on it again yesterday. She spent the first half of the week on the couch, bandaged up, hopping around on the other foot (which is sort of like a tracking device since I could always hear wherever she was in the house by all her thudding), being pushed in a stroller or just plain carried around (which got old real fast).
Andy took Drew and Adelaide swimming one day, and since Madeline had to stay home we baked cookies. In her pajamas.
She also got to go (with Adelaide) to a princess party on Wednesday. The report was all the little girls pushed her around in a stroller to wherever they were playing. It was good for her to get out of the house and do something special.
I think she’s standing on one foot in that photo.
Anyway, I’m glad to have my blog back up, Madeline on the mend, a vehicle in good shape, granola still in the pantry… and I’m halfway through The Help, which Sarah lent me her post-book-club copy. It’s gooood. I was glad I at least had something to do while I was living in the dark ages.
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Well, we’re glad you’re back! What a week! So glad M. is on the mend.
WOW. I’m glad everyone’s okay but that’s some week!
Moriah, I LOVED “The Help”! Apparently, they’re making a movie of it too. It’s fun to keep up with you via your blog :)
Glad Madeline is feeling better! If the book is yours, I need a good one to read – maybe I could borrow it. I’m glad to be back and have a computer too!! (crazy how much you rely on it??)
Poor Madeline! That is so sad! Glad she’s doing better!