In The Mind of A Thirtysomething Mom

Owie

Earlier this month, the 7th to be exact, K was running on the sidewalk and face-planted.  She tore her face up, and by the end of the night she looked like this:

Within a couple of days, it looked much worse.

I've spent the better of the last 24 days worrying about scarring and wondering what I could do to alleviate that possibility.

Today she looks like this:

It's still a little pink, but it looks much better than it did.

Hopefully, scarring won't be an issue after a couple more weeks of healing.

Me on the other hand, I woke up to my eye looking like this:

My eyelid is swollen so much that it hurts.  I've taken Benadryl hoping it was an allergic reaction to something.  The swelling went down a bit, but then came back.  I've tried both hot and cold compresses.  Again they worked for a little while, but the swelling came back again.

Any helpful ideas readers?

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Preschool Logic

Earlier this week I was driving the girls to dance and we were all singing along with the radio to the fabulous Rich Mullins song, Awesome God.  (If you're not familiar with it, you can see a video of Rich singing it live here.  The song starts at about the 1 minute mark.)

After the song was over, the following conversation took place:

Me:  Great job singing girls!  You guys were super.

M:  *sighs* I love God.

K:  I love God too.

Me:  Yup He is pretty awesome, just like the song says.

K:  Well He made all the trees, of course He's awesome.  Duh.

Gotta love that!  :)

Stuck in My Head

At any given moment, one of the following songs is traveling through my head:

I guess any one of those is better than this song that is stuck in K's head, after hearing it during that stupid Alvin & the Chipmunks preview (yes I know, it's sideways. It's only 6 seconds long, you can handle that):

Yes, she's singing I'm a single lady instead of the real words. No she's never heard the real song in any other place than that preview; once.