Another Trip to the Hospital

Bad things come in 3's right?...so after Riley's awful sickness and Poppy's surgery this should be it right? Last night as we were saying goodbyes, and I was rounding up the kids to head home for bed, Naomi tripped and cut her eyebrow on the coffee table, so we spent close to 4 hours sitting in the ER so she could get three stitches put in. Brad was in Boston for the day at a conference and was still a few hours away when it happened. But, because we waited so long to be seen he got dropped off right at the hospital and was there for the procedure, which was nice because he knew the people working there pretty well. Naomi was a super trooper and was making everyone smile, even in a miserable place like that and was full of energy right up until they were ready to do the stitches when she fell asleep. She screamed of course and I cringed the whole time (that is just the worse experience for a parent), but once it was done she had a popsicle and her blankie and we were home by midnight and slept the night away. She woke up all smiles this morning...I wish grown-ups were as resiliant as kids. Now were waiting for a lab test to come back for Riley tomorrow (because his illness has lasted so long), so hopefully everything will turn up normal and we can start to get back to our regularly scheduled life here.