Strange Days

It's been a day of strangeness.

A day of pain.
A day of cake.
A day of bonding.

The pain came in the form of my wrist and my daughter's mouth. I realize how scary that may sound. My right wrist hurts to the point that I broke down today and bought some sort of wrist-support thing. It feels better with it on and yet looks a tad bit tacky. I'll take the feel good part for now.

My daughter took her first step towards braces today. I signed papers and promised to pay... can't wait to see how that works out. She is happy and excited and a little bit nervous, but mostly is distracted by pain tonight. She's nursing those new spacers with a little help from a chocolate shake.

The cake part came after school when I took the kids by Starbucks for a freebie kind of celebration. We each got a drink and a sweet treat. I just reheated my coffee that I never got around to drinking earlier. The sweet treat I'm saving for tomorrow morning.

And the bonding came out of an unfortunate situation, but a good time of sharing nonetheless. Being a mom is hard. Being vulnerable is scary. But I think being a teenager in today's world beats them both. All I can do is pray and talk to the cat and shine the floors.

Remember, I do my best work when I'm troubled.

On a side note, we had Chinese for dinner tonight and the guy who likes my hair offered us $500 for a clipping of it. Twice. And he even pulled out scissors. So I'm thinking next time we go back, I will be prepared with a small token of Chinese good luck. We'll see if that offer still stands. In fact, I'm thinking we may have just found a way to pay for those braces.

Wouldn't that be something else?

Stranger things have happened.