Memorial Day

I've been meaning to post about Memorial Day events from this past Monday all week. Somehow time just slips by.

We had a nice morning here, picking up the place a bit and enjoying a leisurely breakfast. Romona and I managed to sneak away for an hour and make it down to Harrisburg's art fest. We then went over to Grandma's house to go to the traditional Linglestown parade. Not very impressive at all. We think that all the men in the American Legion over there are just dying off, and whoever was left to organize it was not organized.

After this somewhat torturous experience, we went back home to meet up with family that was coming over for a bbq. Just the basic fam showed up- the siblings, Uncle Tom and his crew, Grandma and Uncle Mike.

It was a very windy, beautiful day outside and we had all the windows and and doors open from people going in and out. Suddenly we heard the door to the garage slam shut and a scream from Nathaniel. Sure enough, his fingers had gotten caught!

I ran him to the bathroom and put his hand under cold water and told him not to look at it. After a minute, I looked at it, and it was swollen and had a gouge on his left ring finger from his first knuckle to his second knuckle. It was already purple and his finger was peeled too. The skin was just all pushed back. It was gross. I put some pressure on it for a minute and then rinsed it again. It seemed to slow down on bleeding, and although it was gross, it didn't seem like the cut was as severe as it could have been. So, we ultimately decided not to take him for stitches. Instead, we wrapped it in gauze and gave him some Tylenol and a popsicle while we rested his hand on a bag of frozen peas to help with the swelling. He was still a little teary-eyed, but then found the virtue in surviving a tragedy, and was proud of the wound he incurred and the sympathy he could extract from others.

His little finger is now looking a whole lot better, and we've reduced the wrappings to just a bandaid. Whenever asked about it, he seems to not be able to use it, but the rest of the day he uses it nonstop.