I’m borrowing that line, it struck me as funny this last week. whose isn’t? I’m ready for March when I go back to shooting.
I was in the ER for many hours, again, with my little Sunshine this last week (she’s okay — a 4th grade boy had slipped her a valentine treat laced with nuts.) I had her brother in the waiting room, I had to yank him out of school as well because I knew we’d never get in and out of an ER visit in time to pick him up at the end of the day, so I was running between Lex in the ER, J in the wait room, the car in the lot on the other side of the world to fetch more homework for J, the hour-long wait at the pharmacy for a new epi-pen …
I handed Lexi my iPhone with a very stern warning, “no texting.” (because not too long ago, she sent Daddy and some of my friends texts saying how proud I am of my Lexi, how she’s better behaved and smarter than Jonathan and therefore certainly deserves to have a hamster, don’t you think? it was kind of funny but kind of not.
anyhow. no texts.
I felt bad leaving her in the ER alone but she was fine, right next to the nurses station where they had to monitor her for four hours to be sure she was okay after the epi-pen wore off (she was) so I left her with my iPhone and asked her to draw me a picture (Brushes) and when I returned, found her completely engrossed in flight of the hamsters. It wasn’t until this morning that I remembered my request, and found the drawing my brilliant Sunshine made for me:
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