So I was just getting ready to head to bed, when I hear a horrible crash, bang, thud...and then the sound of my four year old screaming out in pain. I rush to see blood dripping from his mouth...his nose all over the bedroom floor. I grab a washcloth and start dabbing his nose and applying slight pressure....no looking up or down for me. I'm a firm believer of not doing either..back will just make it pool inside and down won't do anything special.
I check his teeth, his tongue, his mouth, lips and nose for any serious injuries...al7mdulila there did not seem to be any. I check the rest of his head for any gashes or cuts that might need stitches...nothing thank god!
I try to keep him awake....scared of him getting a concussion or something. But he falls asleep and I worry if thats a bad sign. Then again is 2:20 am and any four year old would be falling asleep at this time. Bloody nose or not.
*sigh* being a mom is full of worries, stress and guilt.
I now have a mountain of pillows and comforters on his side of the bed so if he rolls off of bed again he won't hurt himself too badly...i hope.
He never falls out of bed at home...NEVER. But this mattress we're currently sleeping on..we're on summer vacation...is not the best mattress. It's a very cheap...i know that may sound snobbish..spring mattress. Even I almost fell out of bed twice already in the past two nights. I love laying on the edge and apparently my four year old does too. However with this mattress when you lay on the edge...it slants and creates a ramp that slowly slides you out of bed. I don't know if this is normal....but no other mattress I have slept on in the past 6 years has done that.
And since I have no one to blame I am blaming the mattress. But not without good reason...it really is an awful mattress.
And because when something bad happens you can't help but think of all the other things annoying you because obviously you need to be as miserable as possible...I am turning 27 on the 27th. My golden birthday..I wanted to do something special...a family lunch. But looks like thats not going to happen. First the country decides to change its weekend and make it effective two days after my birthday. Which means confusion and chaos the weekend of my birthday. Plus my dad decided that this would be the perfect time for a road trip...I don't want to, nor can I take a road trip. The road trip isn't for sure yet...but it might as well be. So I'm disappointed. yet again. I should be used to it though. The only good birthday I can remember having was when I finished 6th grade. I had a nice party with a few friends but even that was slightly disappointing seeing as the majority of people I invited ended up going to an end of the school year party set for the same day as my birthday by a more popular girl. But this was also the summer we drove across country and every stop I seemed to be able to get a birthday present. I don't think it really counts though since my sisters got to pick up a souvenir too at every stop. :/
Majority of my birthdays have been spent on an airplane. so i should be used to it by now. but i'm not. and i wanted something special this year...i really really did. for some reason my brain feels like 27 is a huge milestone. and i think i just wanted one day to be for me...to be about me. just one.
I check his teeth, his tongue, his mouth, lips and nose for any serious injuries...al7mdulila there did not seem to be any. I check the rest of his head for any gashes or cuts that might need stitches...nothing thank god!
I try to keep him awake....scared of him getting a concussion or something. But he falls asleep and I worry if thats a bad sign. Then again is 2:20 am and any four year old would be falling asleep at this time. Bloody nose or not.
*sigh* being a mom is full of worries, stress and guilt.
I now have a mountain of pillows and comforters on his side of the bed so if he rolls off of bed again he won't hurt himself too badly...i hope.
He never falls out of bed at home...NEVER. But this mattress we're currently sleeping on..we're on summer vacation...is not the best mattress. It's a very cheap...i know that may sound snobbish..spring mattress. Even I almost fell out of bed twice already in the past two nights. I love laying on the edge and apparently my four year old does too. However with this mattress when you lay on the edge...it slants and creates a ramp that slowly slides you out of bed. I don't know if this is normal....but no other mattress I have slept on in the past 6 years has done that.
And since I have no one to blame I am blaming the mattress. But not without good reason...it really is an awful mattress.
And because when something bad happens you can't help but think of all the other things annoying you because obviously you need to be as miserable as possible...I am turning 27 on the 27th. My golden birthday..I wanted to do something special...a family lunch. But looks like thats not going to happen. First the country decides to change its weekend and make it effective two days after my birthday. Which means confusion and chaos the weekend of my birthday. Plus my dad decided that this would be the perfect time for a road trip...I don't want to, nor can I take a road trip. The road trip isn't for sure yet...but it might as well be. So I'm disappointed. yet again. I should be used to it though. The only good birthday I can remember having was when I finished 6th grade. I had a nice party with a few friends but even that was slightly disappointing seeing as the majority of people I invited ended up going to an end of the school year party set for the same day as my birthday by a more popular girl. But this was also the summer we drove across country and every stop I seemed to be able to get a birthday present. I don't think it really counts though since my sisters got to pick up a souvenir too at every stop. :/
Majority of my birthdays have been spent on an airplane. so i should be used to it by now. but i'm not. and i wanted something special this year...i really really did. for some reason my brain feels like 27 is a huge milestone. and i think i just wanted one day to be for me...to be about me. just one.
2 comments:
[one] you totally got to get multiple things from the giftshop and bigger ones when we were restricted to one. that had to have something to do with the state we were in.
[two] the road trip is more likely not happening than happening. because of the weekend mixup it's a three day weekend and apparently everyone wants to go to madinah since it's close to ramadan and since plans are still not set you're most likely not going to be able to get reservations anywhere. daddy was talking about driving up in the morning, praying at the mosque, and coming back down after asr. whenever he starts with that plan it usually means that nothing is going to happen.
[three] i don't remember that about your sixth grade birthday, but i do remember it being fun.
[four] two years ago i tried to do something fun for your birthday and you got mad at daddy and stayed up in the apartment the whole day. so some awful birthdays are your fault.
1. the only extra thing i got was that bunny. that was it.
2. the road trip is happening. they have reservations and are leaving Thursday morning..i think.
3. it was a nice birthday..but yes a lot of my friends did not come..because someone else was throwing a party the same day.
4. two years ago..is not this year. i wanted this year to be special. and that was one birthday. so do not go telling me some are my fault..when it was one.
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