made dinner last night
Matt cleaned it up
the girls went out front to play
I went in my room to make calls to parents in Emma's Pre-K class
halfway through the list
I hear a hustle & bustle outside my door
a mom knows...she know's when something's wrong
i open my bedroom door and see Emma laying on the kitchen island
her dad over her, paper towels to the chin
blood, not too much.
and then I see the slice on her chin.
Oh My God. Go, let's just GO. right now! To the Emergency Room.
we drive seperately, knowing Matt has to get up at 3AM to go into work...
we get there, no parking anywhere to be found
the whole way, Natalie, big sis, is reassuring her lil' sis
comforting her telling her she's her best friend, how much she loves her. trying to make her laugh...being just plain AMAZING.
Emma wasn't even crying. She cried at first, but that was short-lived.
she is so tough, my Em...saying I'm ok & cracking jokes like no one else can. Is this girl for real?!
Dad parks in the Dr. parking, he doesn't care
He beat us there and is ready to take the girls.
I am not as daring, and opt to park in the parking garage which seems miles away.
there we are
the four of us.
it actually is bringing me to tears.
in a room, with my Em on the bed. we all had to slow down, we all looked around and it was a moment
a moment where we knew we had each other.
that life in an instant can throw you curves and scare you and surprise you.
but when it quiets down, and you look all around, like we did in that small square room for 6 hours last night...
you are thankful. grateful. and hopeful because you know that you have the best family.
and together you can get through anything.
after a wild ride in the ER, featuring a plastic surgeon who wouldn't come in and stitch her up as we requested,
a mom two doors down who was so out of control security had to step in...we finally got the lil' one stitched up and repaired.
she slept through it, i think she was just so comfortable in the baby burrito they rolled her in.
9 stitches, 2 subcutaneous and 7 you can see...
the other day I was driving on the freeway.
alone in the car, in the left lane, the fast lane.
all of a sudden a guy pulls out of the median right in front of me, right into my lane, the left lane, the fast lane.
i honked, i freaked, i had no one in the lane on my right. luckily.
i think about if i had been toying with the radio, looked down at my phone.
it only would have been an instant, and I wouldn't have seen him pull out into my lane as i was going 70 mph.
i have a friend, a beautiful friend who's daughter was in a car accident a few nights ago.
i don't know the details yet, but it seems she is ok.
as ok as you can be when something so scary and terrifying can happen in one instant.
so hold your family tight and don't forget to tell them, show them, remind them how much you love them.
because it's in those tiny fleeting moments that life is created...
