“What did you do, stand in front of an air vent?”  he asked.  ”Your Mom let you go to school like that???”

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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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It started early Friday morning with the wildly exciting news that school is canceled! We slept late and then just before the flakes started to fall, ventured out for last-minute stops at all the essentials for such a weekend: Gamestop, the library and Starbucks.

Late afternoon found us all sitting in the kitchen, Lexi working on homework, Jonathan on his PSP and me texting Carlos (away this last week on a trip) to let him know that yes, we are fine and have everything we need. WHOOSH quick as a flash, my little sunshine was outside on the patio, barefoot, gleeful to run and play, leap for sheer winter joy in the snow. And then she slipped, fell, stood, and saw the blood everywhere, gushing from her shin. She screamed, “Mommy, my kidney just fell out!” (In hindsight, I’m guessing that was a chunk of tissue?)

Mommy switched into crisis mode, adrenaline taking over, sent off the text mid-letter and followed up with another: “destination: ER. call me.”

Once there, my kids started to argue over who has the most ER visits under his/her belt. :sigh: I know the correct answer: I am considerably more likely to be in the ER with either one kid or the other when Carlos is on a trip. The ER Doc, as fun and wonderful as he was, showed the kids how to suture a wound and assured Lexi that although this was his first attempt ever, it looked as if it was actually going quite well.

Then all joking aside, he said no getting wet — no sledding — for 48 hours.

So we sat indoors all day Saturday, sat and looked out the window as inches, and more inches, and then a foot and another of snow continued to fall. The kids played the Wii, DS, PSP — I began to fear that we might lose power and what then of our indoor alphabet world?

This morning, I mustered my nerve and headed outside to dig out our cars — and my wonderful neighbors were already hard at work! We worked long into afternoon getting everybody properly uncovered and recovered from this unusually epic storm that slammed the mid-Atlantic. As we worked, we all got the text that school is canceled Monday, and then more news to expect 6 more inches Tuesday.

So on that happy note: we went SLEDDING!!! (only a few hours shy of 48, Doc.)

[Canon G11, +2 ev]

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