Anybody Know What It's Like to...

...call your husband at work to talk to him and be told by his coworker that he just left for the Emergency Room?

I do.

"You mean he drove one of the minors to the ER?" I asked.

"No, he went for himself," she said. "One of the nurses here looked at his leg and told him it needed to be checked out immediately."

(About a week ago, he crashed while going off some jumps on his BMX bike. Although he has been faithfully pouring peroxide over the huge scab on his calf several times a day, it still looks like a snot oozing piece of beef jerky.)

Knowing Jeff, he was probably just glad to get away from work for a couple of hours, even if it meant waiting to be seen at the ER. (Each Fall, I invite him to come with me to get a flu shot and he always declines saying, "If I get the flu then I won't have to go to work." Can you tell he loves his job?)

Anyway, I can't wait to hear what he has to say when he contacts me...whenever that is...

Let us turn our attention to another mystery:

How can cute little 9 year old girls be so mean???

Today, Delaney came home and told me that one of her friends was crying because two other girls were completely ignoring her. They didn't want her to play with them anymore so they acted like she wasn't there even though she was talking to them and trying to join in the game that they were playing.

Delaney informed me that she tried to encourage the girl, saying things like, "Maybe you're just not their kind of girl, but me and So-and-so like you." and "I'm sorry they're being mean to you, but at least you aren't that 'Tree-man' guy 'cause not even his family likes him." Such is the comfort of a 9 year old girl dealing with catty girl stuff, sweet but somewhat tactless.

(The 'Tree-man' is an Indonesian guy who is suffering from a shockingly bad case of HPV which is causing his hands and feet to form huge warts which resemble tree roots. )

So, in all seriousness, please say a prayer for Delaney's pal and an even more heartfelt one for the devastated man mentioned above.