My Meandering Mind

e’ve waged war on the goat heads in our backyard for years. If you don’t know what a goat head is, please click here. You have to see them in order to appreciate the damage done. Seriously, I’ll wait.

Glad to have you back. Anyway, the battle has been fierce. We eradicate the invaders only to have them conquer more land. They have defeated us time and time again, but never did they draw blood. Until now. This isn’t for the squeamish. (You’ll want to click on the pictures to see better.)

The trail of blood begins here…

You can see a couple of the goat heads laying on the ground, too.

Leads up the front step…

And ends at the door…

Most of the blood was on Koala Bear’s hand as well as Artistic Flare’s hand which she had cupped underneath.

LadyBug held Koala as Artistic plucked the enemy from her hands and knee. Then they helped her inside where I was scrubbing dirt from my hands (I was moving plants to new pots), so my hands were clean enough to help her.

We ran warm water over her hands and then I squirted a little bit of hand soap and told her to rub her hands together under the water as fast as she could. She was more than happy to comply. Ahem.

I then dumped peroxide over her hands. LadyBug helped Koala out of her jeans into some shorts and then Artistic dumped peroxide over her knee. Meanwhile, I turned to google to make sure there wasn’t anything else needing to be done. The main thing is to make sure they don’t get infected.

Then I grabbed the camera to uh assess the damage through the zoom lens.

Notice the thorn still buried in there? She wants her daddy to get it out when he gets home. Should I warn him about the blood drops that will greet him? Nah.

Her hands are a pretty shade of blotchy red and white with a dash of puffy holiness added in.

But her recovery smile is wonderful! Take that goat heads! You can’t keep a great warrior down.

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o I’m sitting here at my computer when my little guy (5) came staggering out with that just woke up from my nap look. So cute. Wild Dude always comes over to give me a long hug when he first wakes up. So I got my hug and a kiss and he moseyed on out.

A few minutes later, my daughter (2) decided to wake up from her nap. Little Miss Princess decided she wanted to play with her doll house people. Ladybug (16) told her to be quiet and not wake her brother. I told her no worries, he was already awake. LadyBug went back to the room to get the toys and there was Wild Dude - out cold in bed.

Apparently, he had some sleep walking/hugging/kissing going on. Crazy.

A few minutes later, I looked over at Little Miss Princess who had a hat several sizes too small sitting atop her head. She looked like the Pope as she read her books out loud. Soooo cute. Then she ate some nuts that she-ahem-helped herself to before LadyBug told her to go lay down so she could change her.

Ladybug got the supplies, went to find Little Miss Princess and found her in bed, dozing. Can we say WEIRD nap day?

I have one more kid funny. Dude Jr. (9) and Koala Bear (12) were looking in an I Spy book. Koala Bear told him to look for a chick. Dude Jr. points to a girl doll. Yup-he found a chick alright lol.

Being home with my kids is far from boring.

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