Oh What A Day

Yesterday was one of those days...It started off normal, with the exception that Chris drove us all to our destinations before heading out for some male bonding/basketball watching couple of days. All was going well until I received a call at work from Parker's school at around 3:00 or so. The teacher called to let me know that Parker had something in her eye, it was really red and they had washed it out. Since I wasn't picking her up, she wanted to let me know...well that was easy I was thinking, she has such long eyelashes, I just assumed one fell in her eye and she would be fine, no big deal right?!
Then the teacher went on to tell me that there was an accident with one of her classmates today, and that he has passed away....WHAT!!..Apparently he was home on spring break and was climbing in a tree and fell out and fractured his skull...This little boy had just moved into her classroom a few weeks ago, so I didn't know him yet. Please pray for this family as I can't imagine the devastation that they are feeling right now. His name is Harrison. Sara wanted to know what I was comfortable with, in them telling Parker...That was NOT what I was thinking about or prepared to answer right away...She's three, how do you handle this with a three year old?? I told them if she asked to be honest, and that I would handle it when we got home..She told me that their response would be that Harrison went to heaven....
When we all got home, and my dad pulled in the driveway with the girls, I wasn't sure what to expect from her. I had totally forgotten about the eye comment, until I opened the door. She wouldn't move, looked like she was sleeping, and wouldn't respond to me at all. I started to panic, here I am, Chris is out of town, my parents have dinner plans, and Parker has an eye issue....and I can't drive if we need to do something...we get her inside, take a look at it finally, and determine she has a stye in the middle of her eye lid. I called her Dr. who is on spring break vacation, and he suggested a warm compress until it goes away, and that it should go away on its own. At this point I'm still panicked, and still thinking I can't drive if something becomes an emergency, Parker needs my attention, and poor Brecken is running around the house looking for attention. My parents leave for dinner, and I'm left to handle both girls. We did just fine, but it was a little stressful! On top of all of this, we had workers in the house working on the master bathroom remodel, and then this friendly guy rings the doorbell to see if I want to buy steaks!!! As politely as I could, I told him he came at the wrong time!!
Brecken and I had dinner, Parker laid on the couch holding her warm compress, and then my dad came back to help me get the kids down for bed. I was SO thankful that my parents were available to help me out in my moment/hour of panic and helped me see the night through. I guess on the positive side, Parker was so involved in her eye, that she never mentioned Harrison, or that the teachers were sad today, so I haven't had to go there with her on that issue. Hopefully this will give Chris and I an opportunity to discuss how to handle this with her, if we have to address it at all! Oh what a day!!
Hopefully today and tomorrow go well, and we'll be really excited for daddy to come home!! Have a great weekend.