Looking back, and this weekend just past

Back at the end of August I posted that the signs pointed to a winter with above-average snowfall despite what the National Weather Service was saying. Score one for mom, eh?

I'm sure I wrote a specific request to the universe some time last year that I not have to deal again with my child's face covered in blood, but I can't search LJ to find it - feh. Clearly I didn't offer the appropriate propitiation, because the weekend ended with blood and trauma.

Normal kid accident: L was bouncing on his bed, slipped, and slammed his head into the wood headboard. It's a minor cut, but like all face wounds it bled a lot. Bleeding stopped with moderate pressure, we cleaned up, iced it, and got him to bed as it was close to bedtime. I checked for pupil dilation and eye-tracking pain or difficulty. No problems there. If it had happened mid-day we might have taken him in for stitches, but really those are cosmetic. He'll have an interesting little scar.

We got VERY lucky. The cut is less than a centimeter from his eyeball. He has a nice little shiner and is eager to tell everyone about it. *headshake*

Saturday we spent ALL FRELLING AFTERNOON buying a car. Details under the cut. It's a 2009 Toyota Matrix. It's silver. I don't much like it (I think the rear window is too tiny and I don't like the visual angles of the sides) but it's not my car. It'll get hella better mileage than the minivan and we'll figure something out for road trips.

( Car buying saga, in which I win some and lose some )

The dealership had a kids play area, which was a huge win as the hours stretched out. We also had fun chatting with a family that turned out to be Syrian. Watching their four-year-old daughter trying to explain to my four-year-old what "Arabic" meant (turns out it means she doesn't eat pork) was cute. And they had an adorable 8-month-old baby.

Unfortunately, for no discernable reason, my back decided to have a very bad seizure while we were standing around. Two days of mega-dose NSAIDS and lots of hot packs later I'm not in horrible shapw but I'm not comfortable either.

Fortunately, Sunday was just gaming, which involved only sitting about and not even rolling dice. We made reasonable progress on stuff that usually drags out and bores people. Spreadsheets and time-graphs ftw.

This was supposed to be a quiet weekend, without a lot going on. Do such things exist?

Looking back, and this weekend just past

Back at the end of August I posted that the signs pointed to a winter with above-average snowfall despite what the National Weather Service was saying. Score one for mom, eh?

I'm sure I wrote a specific request to the universe some time last year that I not have to deal again with my child's face covered in blood, but I can't search LJ to find it - feh. Clearly I didn't offer the appropriate propitiation, because the weekend ended with blood and trauma.

Normal kid accident: L was bouncing on his bed, slipped, and slammed his head into the wood headboard. It's a minor cut, but like all face wounds it bled a lot. Bleeding stopped with moderate pressure, we cleaned up, iced it, and got him to bed as it was close to bedtime. I checked for pupil dilation and eye-tracking pain or difficulty. No problems there. If it had happened mid-day we might have taken him in for stitches, but really those are cosmetic. He'll have an interesting little scar.

We got VERY lucky. The cut is less than a centimeter from his eyeball. He has a nice little shiner and is eager to tell everyone about it. *headshake*

Saturday we spent ALL FRELLING AFTERNOON buying a car. Details under the cut. It's a 2009 Toyota Matrix. It's silver. I don't much like it (I think the rear window is too tiny and I don't like the visual angles of the sides) but it's not my car. It'll get hella better mileage than the minivan and we'll figure something out for road trips.

( Car buying saga, in which I win some and lose some )

The dealership had a kids play area, which was a huge win as the hours stretched out. We also had fun chatting with a family that turned out to be Syrian. Watching their four-year-old daughter trying to explain to my four-year-old what "Arabic" meant (turns out it means she doesn't eat pork) was cute. And they had an adorable 8-month-old baby.

Unfortunately, for no discernable reason, my back decided to have a very bad seizure while we were standing around. Two days of mega-dose NSAIDS and lots of hot packs later I'm not in horrible shapw but I'm not comfortable either.

Fortunately, Sunday was just gaming, which involved only sitting about and not even rolling dice. We made reasonable progress on stuff that usually drags out and bores people. Spreadsheets and time-graphs ftw.

This was supposed to be a quiet weekend, without a lot going on. Do such things exist?