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seriously crazy week

May 25, 2009 by Wendy S

Where should I start?!?!

I haven’t blogged lately. Life has been so busy. For the last few weeks we’ve been gearing up for our garage sale: moving stuff to the garage, organizing stuff, pricing stuff and then repeat.

Last Tuesday we had ~~slight~~ HUGE change of plans when Peanut had an accident with a porcelain statue. She had be running, tripped, fell and landed face first into the statue. It broke upon impact and cut up her face.

After a 2 1/2 hour visit to our local ER, she left with 2 stitches in her lip.

I highly do not recommend being the parent who has to be with the child getting stitches. BigDaddy took Muchkin out to the waiting room, so I stayed with Peanut. We had to wait for the doctor to round up extra hands to help her. They wrapped her in a sheet, like you would swaddle a baby with her arms pinned to her sides. They asked me to hold her down. One doctor held her head and the other did the work on her face. First they put two injections of freezing in. Then the longest minutes of my life while we waited for it to kick in. Oh, yes, she was still swaddled while we waited.

In between the sobs and screams, she said, “Mommy, I wanna go home now.”

It took every peice of me to keep it together and not start crying. I had to be brave for her.

Finally the doctors come back to stitch her up. Two stitches is all that was required. But on such a little lip, those stitches looked huge.

Headed back out into the waiting room with all eyes upon us. Guess Peanut’s screams could be heard by everyone. BigDaddy said that Munchkin was worried for Peanut and cried when she heard the screams.

On the drive home, Peanut asked: “Can I take my boo boo off now?” Ugh…break my heart.

After we got home, she had some dinner and was almost back to normal.

Then came the next hurdle. No soother. Because of the location of the stiches, Peanut wasn’t allowed to have her soother. The doc said that it would keep too much moisture on the wound. So we got ready for bed knowing that it could be a very long night. Peanut did understand that the doctor said she’s couldn’t have it, but it was tough. Lots of crying. Lots of getting out of bed. In the end, I slept in her room with her.

It has gotten better since then and she doesn’t even ask for it anymore. Tho we did tell her that we threw them out since the doctor said she couldn’t have them any more. Silver lining to a horrible situation, I guess.

So Wednesday night we were able to get back on the garage sale bandwagon and continue getting thing organized. And that continued for Thursday and Friday too.

The sale was a success and we got rid of a lot of ~~junk~~ stuff and made some extra cash.

Tomorrow I’m taking Peanut to get the stitches out. I’m not looking forward to this.

monday mumbers

May 4, 2009 by Wendy S

It’s mumbers time again. You can do it too…just grab the button and link back to Kia. You could link to me too…that would be nice.

5 – years that I’ve been blogging. Happy Blogoversary to me!

1 – link to my very first post — in the beginning

14 – blogoversaries today

11 – perennials planted this weekend

1 – garage cleaned out

5 – recycling boxes of stuff

4 – garbage bags

1,245,435 – things for our garage sale

9 – Munchkin’s number on her new soccer jersey

2 – old friends that I got to see last night at my mom’s concert

2 – days spent completely outdoors working on the yard

48 – hours of sleep required to recover from our fun, busy weekend

must.have.a.garage.sale.

July 22, 2008 by Wendy S

ugh. How do 2 big people and 2 little people have so much crap???

The massive “must.have.a.garage.sale.” clean-up and organizational race has begun in our house.

We started in the garage by putting the Christmas decorations up in the ceiling and the camping supplies on the shelves on the back wall.

That cleaned out a part of the basement a little so I started going thru boxes and boxes of crap. Now we have sort of organized piles of crap all over the basement and a few boxes of garage sale stuff.

In the garage are a few piles of garage sale stuff on one side and more piles of needs-to-be organized stuff everywhere else.

Please note that there is no car what-so-ever in the garage. Ugh. A car has never been in the garage either.

We bought some really nice organizational units for the garage from Canadian Tire to get us started. 2 out of the 4 peices are put together.

I think the hardest part of getting this done is figuring out where to start.

Wish us luck that we not only get this done, but we don’t kill each other in the process.