My Mom made this lovely flower cake for my birthday. It is so much prettier in person (in flower?)...somehow the picture doesn't do seem to do it justice. Camera operator error, I'm sure.
Today was a mixed bag...I woke up to discover that Moo's eyes had swollen shut like a prize fighter over night, and so the day started with my choking back tears when seeing her swollen little face. Sigh. After a trip to the doctor, we were left still uncertain about the cause. She had developed some dryness around her eyes after swimming this weekend, and she had been improving until...dum dum duuuummmmm...we put Vaseline on her eyelids and undereyes. THAT, my friends, was our first mistake. My dear redhead is an extra-sensitive redhead, and ended up with the equivalent of a chemical burn around her eyes and down parts of her face. (As picture crazy as I can get on my blog, I promised her I would not post the picture that I took of her. I took it to help remember her condition and progress, should this happen again...but I just can't do that to the poor thing. She is just this side of feeling that awkward self-consciousness when her hair or clothes are not quite "right"...I cringe what would happen if I had to send her off on a bus to school tomorrow. Ugh.)
Upside: after a Zyrtec and some time, she is starting to look a little less beat up. For instance, now she has a crease in her eyelid. Just one, but we'll take it. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
I was telling a friend of mine who called to wish me happy birthday, that I have to learn to cope better when things go wrong with my girls...or with anyone in my family, for that matter. I can tend to get all dark and twisty inside...and then I become paralyzed from being able to function at an optimal level.. I have to work on that. Perhaps Someone knows that, and has begun to work in me on that one. Hope so.
My dear husband and girls got me some jammies, and aside from the lovely cake, my Mom & Dad got me a food dehydrator (woot woot!). My Dad also got me a gag gift--a bacon cook book. It was pretty funny, and I'm sure that some of the recipes will work just fine with turkey bacon...except the Bacon Baklava (eeewwww!). Talk about "dark and twisty"! Who would think up such a thing???
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Oh, poor, poor Marah.
That happened to me once but it had to do with poison ivy ...but at least all my neighborhood cohorts also had puffy faces from the poison ivy too. :(
I think it is part of motherhood to get all dark and twisty when the kids get sick... I have to remind myself that sickness is normal and not to "go there" with my dark thoughts of what it "could be".
And I am kicking myself ... I SO meant to write you yesterday to say Happy Birthday ... but boo hoo, I forgot. :( So ... Happy Birthday a day late! Miss you and love you!
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