Hannah's finger

Hannah woke up yesterday and showed me her finger. She looked like she had a pimple on it. I told her I need to get the infectious pus out. A huge "No!!" followed by lots of tears.

This is her finger at the end of the day. Her finger is so swollen. Painful, and the infection is twice the size as it was in the morning. This picture doesn't even do it justice.



Hannah was in pain. Even though I told her that we would have to go to the hospital if she won't let us take care of it, she wasn't letting us do anything. Even reminding her how awful her hospital stay was had no effect. Even telling her that her finger falling off a great probabilty- nope, no budging. Her finger was getting noticeably worse by the hour. What is a parent to do? We drug her. Benadryl is a parents dream in situations such as this. Along with some Tylenol, we hope it will help her pain.




Here's Breck Trying to do his best to show Hannah that it doesn't hurt to poke your finger.



Here's Hannah trying the needle out on a normal finger. I even let her poke my finger.



She's taking a 'stab' at her puss-filled infection. Sounds so awesome right? Not happening.

She was trying to be brave. She tried. I can't blame her. I read a book to her after she's exhausted from crying her eyes out. After she fell asleep, Aric comes in to do some minor surgery and open the thing up.

This morning Hannah showed me her finger and it has greatly improved. It has drained, and her finger isn't twice the size as normal anymore Looks drastically better. Yeah! Sometimes parenting isn't a pretty job.

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Snow, Lots of snow

Love the snow, but I could really go without the blizzard today.




Outside my front door. Looking out the window.



Not really sure how anyone would get to my front door....




My back door.







My kids taking advantage of the weather to catch up on some tv watching.

I'm not really looking forward to shoveling all that snow today. Usually I don't mind shoveling snow. I usually think of it as a 'workout'. It's my way of pretending that I'm actually getting some exercise.

Oklahoma sounds pretty good at the moment. They get a few inches of snow and people don't know what to do. As much as I love Minnesota, there are a few things I won't miss, like the massive amounts of snow I must shovel throughout the lengthy winter.



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