BooBoo

Molly had school today.  When she got home we had lunch.  In the middle of a very ordinary day and a very ordinary lunch she stops everything and says "Oh no, I have a booboo. I can't even eat it hurts so bad."  Booboo? I looked at her and said, "Booboo, we don't use the word booboo in our house.  We have owies or ouchies, not booboos.  Who said booboo at school?"  You see I don't like the word booboo.  Every mom has those words that are like nails on a chalkboard and one of mine is booboo.  You can't help whine when you say booboo and I have enough whine in my life.  My ordinary day and ordinary lunch just switched into massive drama overload.

I almost let this detest for the word booboo distract me from the important job of caring for my poor injured child.  I could not think of how to encourage her to carry on despite this massive (-ly small) injury.  But it turns out that the fruit snacks she received from a boy at school were the incentive I needed to get her to finish her meal.  Nourishment is the best way to recover from such a horrific injury, I told her (with only a hint of sarcasm).  Especially nourishment in the form of jellied sugar in bright colors!  But as we finished lunch she looked at me again and said "Oh no, I can only count to four now."  It seems the injury on her hand kept her thumb from working.  Oh how in the world can someone be expected to count without using their fingers?  Kindergarten will just have to wait until we can overcome such adversity.  Maybe we can look into a special school for you where they use other means of counting besides their fingers.  We would hate for your injury to keep you from reaching your full potential.  Instead of that sarcastic tirade, I said "Well, a Barbie bandaid will make you all better and then you can count to five again."  (she forgot all about her other hand apparently, I mean at least then she could get to 9).  And wouldn't you know it? The magic of the Barbie bandaid and the fruit snacks completely healed her.  She is now able to count to five again.  We can return to our regularly scheduled ordinary day.