I knew it would happen, it was just a question of when.

Carson got staples in his head last night. He is the most accident prone kid ever to walk the earth so I knew it would happen eventually. Surprisingly it wasn't really his fault, it was Cooper's. They were playing and Cooper knocked him into the coffee table.

Have you ever watched something happen to your kid and it was in slow motion? You saw it happening and you just couldn't stop it in time? That's how it was last night, it was CRAZY!! I tried to grab him but I just wasn't fast enough. So we took him into the kitchen and tried to get the bleeding to stop (if you've ever dealt with a head wound you know what I mean, blood everywhere!!) and then we saw the cut. Totally deep.

So we loaded Carson into the car and away we went to Instacare. They were super nice there and it put Carson at ease immediately. They didn't even give him shots for the staples, they used a numbing gel. Much better than shots, let me tell you! Then they put 3 staples in and we were done. It took less than an hour, it was amazing how quick they were. Carson came home and he was totally fine, like nothing ever happened! He played the Wii and then went to bed. He woke up and its been like any other day, thank goodness!

I was impressed by Caleb and his friends last night. They were really concerned about him and defended him when some other kids were laughing about it(they were playing night games when this happened and so I left Caleb with his friends and my friend Lisa watched out for him, thanks Lisa!!). When I talked to Caleb when we got home, he was really sweet and had to talk to Carson just to make sure he was OK. Then Caleb's friend Cody had to talk to Carson too. I'm so glad he has good friends! They got so mad at these other kids for laughing at Carson that they wanted to leave. So they called me and I went and picked them up and they hung out with Carson until it was time for Cody to go home.

Needless to say, I'm glad it's all over!

Carson, cheesing it up right after we got home from Instacare.

The staples.

Halloween 2009

It turned out to be the scariest Halloween ever this year! It had nothing to do with haunted houses, scary movies or things of this nature. This is how is all started:

Caleb had a soccer game the morning of Halloween. We got there a little bit early and so we were just relaxing and talking to the other parents that were there. All of a sudden, Allan says to me "Hey, there's a message on my phone from a hospital, its about your mom." So I listen to the message and its a nurse telling me to call them right away, its regarding my parents. Then she gave me the wrong number. Either that or his phone glitched and so the number sounded different, which I believe is what happened.

Anyway, I called my brother Jeff so he could google the hospital in Keokuk, Iowa that they had been taken to. He got a hold of the nurse and she told him our parents had been in a head-on collision and they were still alive. And then the phone cut off and so that's all we knew for a while. Then the nurse called Jeff again and told him that they were going to X-Ray and they would call us back as soon as they knew anything. So he called me and told me that and I just started crying because I was so relieved that they were alive. Keep in mind I'm still at a soccer game and trying to keep it all together so I don't freak out Caleb until I get all the details about my parents. So after about 15 minutes I get a phone call from the nurse. I was told that my parents were lucky to be alive because it was a pretty bad crash.

Here's what happened: They were on a road by the Mississippi river and they went around a bend (its a bendy road) going between 45-50 miles and hour and BAM! There's a car in their lane and they have very little time to react. So they hit head-on.

My mom had some pretty nasty injuries from seat belt and airbag. Not to mention the fact that she has asthma and the particles from the airbags were making it so she couldn't breathe. She thought she was dying at one point because she couldn't breathe. My step dad tried to get out of the car to help her and realized that he couldn't. He had broken his pelvis, shattered his left hip and broken his right knee. All he cared about was making sure my mom was OK. He told the EMT's to take care of her first, while sitting there broken and not saying anything about it. If that isn't true love, I don't know what is.

I started to make arrangements that day to go out to Illinois to take care of them.


The truck they were in. I was sick when I saw it.