Day of Rest

Today was an adventure...and it's only 2pm.

The clocks went back an hour last night, which for most people means that they get to enjoy an extra hour of sleep. For everyone with kids, it means we all have to get up at 6am instead of 7am now for the next week. Yay! Can't wait...

So, I was trying to be positive this morning and decided I would make my family pancakes for breakfast. (Keep in mind we are strictly cereal in the morning type people) It turned out super yummy, and then we were able to take our time in getting ready for stake conference at 11am.
We decided that we'd go early in hopes of getting cushioned chairs to sit on for the 2 hour conference. So we were there in our soft seats at 10:30. All was going well, and then they announced, "oops, we made a mistake, conference was really supposed to be at 10, so now we need to wait for it to stop recording and then we'll show it at noon." Yikes! So, we got ourselves prepared for the long haul with our kids...thinking it's a good thing we packed some fruit snacks and an extra bottle.

Our kids are generally very well behaved at Church, but around the hour and a half mark, they were getting antsy. Chris had the baby out in the hall, and I let Claire take Grace to get a drink of water. When they came back, Grace refused to come back to our seats. I stepped out to coerce her, and as she was pulling away from me, she slipped from my grasp and hit her head on the corner of a wall. She of course started balling, but we didn't think much of it until Chris noticed blood all over his shirt. Yep, she split her head open. I ran her to the bathroom to take a better look. Aside from all the blood, she had a nice little gash that was open pretty far. It looked worse than the time Claire had split her head, so we decided to take her to urgent care. Thankfully by the time she was seen, it had clotted up really well, and all they had to do was wash it out quite vigorously, but no stitches or staples. Whew! She was pretty dramatic about the whole thing, so if she tells you some horror story of her bloody head, you will know the real story.