It's Happened.
I've become my mother.
A child comes up to me with a festering owie and I immediately dig my thumbnail in to see if there's any gunk that need to come out, all the while saying encouraging things like, "Tell me if this hurts."
Little Evelyn wins the trooper award. She's got a fingernail that's only hanging on because it's embedded in a pillow of scabs and dried pus. Everyday I scrape the mess clean and pour alcohol in it. She never even flinches. Except for that once when a corner of band-aid adhesive stuck to the fingernail and gave it an unpleasant yank she wasn't expecting. And even then she just jumped a little.
She's tough as nails... unless someone takes her place in line which just breaks her heart and sends her crying to me. It's hard to be four years old.
A child comes up to me with a festering owie and I immediately dig my thumbnail in to see if there's any gunk that need to come out, all the while saying encouraging things like, "Tell me if this hurts."
Little Evelyn wins the trooper award. She's got a fingernail that's only hanging on because it's embedded in a pillow of scabs and dried pus. Everyday I scrape the mess clean and pour alcohol in it. She never even flinches. Except for that once when a corner of band-aid adhesive stuck to the fingernail and gave it an unpleasant yank she wasn't expecting. And even then she just jumped a little.
She's tough as nails... unless someone takes her place in line which just breaks her heart and sends her crying to me. It's hard to be four years old.