Okay, so this was totally my fault. I couldn't resist the urge to get a good deal!
This is how it happened...
My kids were both sick with croup and we had been in the home for
5 straight days (I couldn't even go to the grocery store to get fresh food because Shane was out of town and I didn't want to leave my sick kids with anyone). On the 5
th day about 6:00 p.m. (1 hour before they would both be going to bed) I saw this ad on
Yokotaads.com (it's like a
craigslist, but just for our base)...
A 7.5 foot "USED ONCE" Christmas Tree for only $10. Shane and I really wanted to buy one but they were $120-$180 for this size, so when I saw this ad I didn't even care what it looked like-I NEEDED IT--it was ONLY $10-and if I didn't like it I could just give it away!
It would only take 10 minutes to get to this person's house, then we'd be on our way home-right??? You may be asking WHY TONIGHT???...well, it was such a good deal that I thought the guy might change his mind...so I HAD to buy it right then!
Both my kids had croup and a slight fever, but I could roll the windows down and it would be a nice "cool" air drive (the doctors said that a few minutes of cool air each day is good for croup), so I would be hitting 3 birds with 1 stone 1) I'd get a good deal 2) My kids would get some nice cool air and 3) We'd get our Christmas Tree. Those are 3 good reasons-right??? I wasn't totally being irresponsible!
I didn't want to get the kids out of the car (because they were sick) so I asked the guy to meet me at the bottom of his tower, but he said he couldn't because his little girl was at home and his wife had just stepped out. No big deal I thought...I'll just make sure the kids don't touch anything and everyone will be fine.
So we went up the elevator to their apartment. Jayden and Tia both did a fabulous job! They didn't touch a thing. I got the tree, paid the guy his $10 and we were out of there in less than 3 minutes.
"THE TREE"
It was all going just as I had planned it UNTIL....we got to the elevator.
The elevator door opened up and I knew my kids were going to dash in there and was afraid that I couldn't get this big heavy tree (with no handle) in before the door closed on me.
I'm sitting there thinking "I need to beat them into the elevator with this big thing". So, when the elevator door opened I took a huge step with the tree between my arms and the bottom of it resting on my toes. Right when I did that-Tia took off running for the elevator and collided with my leg. She bounced right off it and into the elevator door frame.
Blood started gushing out everywhere. When Tia saw the blood she started freaking out and wouldn't let anyone touch her. I tried to hold her so that I could put some pressure on the cut to help it stop, but she wouldn't let me.
It just so happens that there was a nice older man in the elevator that saw the whole thing. It freaked him out and he ran to the guy's apartment that sold me the tree and they both called 911.
I could see that the cut really wasn't that bad, so I was trying to yell at the two guys that it would be okay and DON'T call 911, I just needed a towel and I would take her to the hospital myself. Well, it was too late...the ambulance was on it's way.
We had to sit there on the 7th floor and wait for the Ambulance workers to come and check Tia out. By this time Tia's cut had stopped bleeding and she wouldn't let a single person touch her besides myself. So the workers told me what to do and how to clean her up. We then made our way to the ambulance and headed for the hospital.
Here's Tia in the Ambulance AFTER I cleaned off most of the blood.
Jayden thought it was the coolest thing in the world to ride in the ambulance!
I didn't get a picture of it, but the workers put the TREE on the STRETCHER in the ambulance-it was so big it wouldn't fit anywhere else-it was hilarious!
Arriving at the hospital.
Waiting in the E.R. to have Tia's head "glued" together. They don't stitch very much anymore-they glue it shut.
Tia and her "glued" stitches.
This is what Tia's head looked like a few hours after it happened.
And, it was all because I COULDN'T pass up a good deal-WHAT'S MY PROBLEM??! Poor little Tia-I'm so SORRY!
The front door.
The front room.
Monsters Inc pictures.
I made this Mike "thingy" out of a green Asian lantern. I couldn't believe it actually worked. Yay!
Aren't these cute? I found them on this blog and then just modified them a little. I'm so grateful for people that share their ideas...it saved me a lot of time and headache.
Tia fishing.
Jayden couldn't believe that he "fished" out Monsters Inc socks.
Here's what we found for the fishing pond prizes. I'm so excited that Japan likes Monsters Inc also. I would have never found these things in the States.
After everyone "fished" they colored Monsters Inc pictures.
All the kids got to create their own Monster Masks (saw the idea at Oriental Trading Co.).
Jayden, Mattea, Nikolai, Mayci, & Xavier
Giovanny, Jonah, Brynly, & Hailey
Tessa, Tyler, & Everett
Then we let the kids have a little FREE TIME to get their wiggles out.
All 14 little Monsters excited for the Pinata.
The BRAKE by Xavier.
The POUR.
