Significant outfit

I didn't originally post because I wasn't invited to blog at time of assignment and didn't think it would ever get graded...

Anyway this is the only outfit that carries any significance in the last 6 months or so. That is the other reason I didn't post. Long story. Anyway I have a finished basement and that is where I pretty much am all the time, my office is there, entertainment, whatever. Anyway my daughter often plays and watches movies down here while I am working or studying.

She had just fallen down the stairs (upstairs) a couple days ago, and she had to go to the bathroom bad. She was holding herself, whining and trying to make it up the stairs. I grabbed her underneath her arms and carried her up the steps, my foot slipped off one of the steps near the landing. Her mouth caught the corner of the step, indentations from her former teeth are permanent in the wood floor. So she lost four front top teeth. It was really hard for me to deal with emotionally, probably the worst thing in my adult life.

(she is now 3) The good news, she will get temporary teeth put in right after the holidays. They will be both wired and cemented and will be removed when she is 7 or 8 and starts losing her baby teeth. We have anxiously been awaiting her molars to fully come in before the procedure could be done.

I learned a lot of humility from that event. As a parent you have this feeling that you can protect your child from anyone or anything. To be the cause of something like that is devastating and at least in my case was very traumatic to me. I guess this probably should have been my topic for the secret also, but that would have been easy to figure out!

The other thing I learned is that, it could have been worse. If her face had hit just an inch or so higher on her face it would have been a direct shot to her nose. If it were lower it would have been her throat. In light of the event I always make time and slow down for my daughter now, before I could say that it was 50/50 it depended on if I was really busy or not.