Putting it all into perspective

Today was not one of our better days. It's Tuesday, grocery shopping day while Eleanor and Grace are in school. Jordan and I get five hours a week together. Five hours to run all the errands that need to be done without my other helpers.

So I was hoping it wasn't serious when Nora took a tumble while we were dropping off Grace in her class. I was wrong.

You'll probably figure it out as you get older- I can take blood, bumps, scratches, stitches, broken bones (although there is NO reason for you to test me on this) but anything to do with thumping teeth makes me nauseous. Sick to the stomach, bile in the throat, nauseous.

We sat for a few minutes while Eleanor cried, I sang to her to calm her down a bit and the teachers braved coming within a few feet of us to hand me a tissue. We headed off to the dentist where I got to sit in the chair with her while Jordan puttered around the foot of the chair and charmed everyone.

I know it sounds simple right now, but the hour seemed to take forever. Her right front tooth is loose and it terrifies me. We're supposed to watch it for a few weeks as it could tighten back up and revisit the dentist in two weeks. She couldn't even munch into a strawberry so I'm not very hopeful.

That's why I'm up this late. I keep replaying the thump in my head and my stomach rolls. The TV is on, bad late night reruns are on and even the brownie and Grand Marnier are not helping to help me sleep. The girls and I went to the commissary, picked up almost everything we needed on our shopping list and then headed home.

That's when Rich called. He's Todd's best friend and was the best man at our wedding. Turns out that the reason he hasn't called is that their kid was diagnosed with a-plastic anemia. Kind of puts a wiggly tooth in perspective.

Tonight's the first night we used the white board in the kitchen to put up our thank you list. If we're all going to be at the table during meals to say Grace, we're going say a prayer to say thank you at the same time. A safe journey for Dad up to Prudence, Sam and his parents and a colleague of Kerry's. We'll see how it works out... Today I'm freaked out by Eleanor's tooth, but am so thankful for our family's good health. I'm going to go knock on wood.