Posts Tagged ‘ouchie’
Recap Later, For Now, OW!
The SF/F Book Club at the Beaverton Powell’s hosted me last night, and the event was a blast. I’ll post a full recap tomorrow, including the thing that made me cry with joy. Literally cry. It was magical.
Today thought, I have double the work in revisions to get done, and a swelling toe to baby. No, that wasn’t at the event. It was at home, as I was getting everyone to bed. My 7-year-old boobytrapped his door with a baby rocking chair made of solid wood. I walked right into it in the dark. Right through it, as a matter of fact, and I went down hard.
The light got turned on, and I had to put on a brave face because the poor kid looked ready to pass out. “Why did you put that there?” I asked him very calmly and quietly, tears streaming down my cheeks the second time that evening. I am no sissy–I gave birth twice–but goddamn, it hurt.
He shrugged, patting my shoulder frantically to make it better. “I could kiss it?” he offered, which is what I say. I told him that wasn’t necessary but he could kiss my cheek and coaxed him into calmness again–hard to do when one’s bleeding, but I managed–and got him bundled back into bed, then limped off to get a Band-Aid for the bleeding part. It took a good ten minutes to get him ready to go to sleep after that.
Motherhood. It’s always an adventure. This morning my foot seems reasonably okay, if scratched and scraped. The toe in question is still swollen though, and very tender. Running tomorrow is going to be a task. For today, though, I think I’m just going to gingerly limp along.
ETA: My Wondrous Reads guest blog, A Screen To Sink Your Fangs Into, is now up!
