Dumb Moms Anyhow........

Ab is sitting on the floor, trying to remove a gauze bandage that covers a wound that goes from the tip of her twelve year old ankle, to her upper thigh.  And, it's s-t-u-c-k to the wound. 

OUCH!!!

I told her not to bandage it that way.  Think she'd listen?  Tonight at dinner, I told her that some day, her children would think she is just as dumb as she thinks we are right now. 

Anyway, she's got a serious case of road burn from a bicycle mishap the other day, that she probably got while showing off for the new neighbor boy, named Kyle. 

(I figure it's Kyle because he's been mentioned so many times lately.  "Mom, Do you know who Kyle is?"  "Kyle was riding the bike when you picked me up"  "Kyle's brother Tanner.......")

Of course, to hear her tell it, I don't have a clue as to how much her skinned up leg hurts, and my idea that it would feel much better if she soaked the bandage off in the tub is just so sssstuupiddd! "Because THAT would hurt!" 

You would think that I never, ever had a scrape or scratch, (since she can't imagine that her mom was ever a kid) or tended to one in my mothering career. 

If she doesn't keel over from infection before this is healed, it won't be for lack of trying.  Since I wasn't home when it happened, I am not sure if a drop of soap or water came near it, let alone something like peroxide or betadine! 

Although she did say she "cleaned it!"   But, her idea of clean, and my idea of clean are on opposite ends of the white glove spectrum. 

Oh my gosh, I hear the water running!  Could it be that she actually got in the shower and let water come near that wound? 

When she's all finished, I am going to tell her that I am so glad that she thought of that!

I will let her think it was all her idea.   ::big grin::