Emotional Day

Today was one of the most emotional days I've had in a long time. For my birthday Charlie got me the treadmill I've been wanting for awhile now. It just came yesterday so it's a novelty and the kids want to touch it and play on it as much as I'll let them. So...this afternoon Drex asks me AGAIN if I'll let him walk on it for a little bit (it's a folding one so they can't get it down without my help, or they probably wouldn't even bother asking!)...so I finally say yes and get it going for him, well just about the time he tells me he's done I hear a scream and look down at the end of the treadmill to find my little Liberty's hand stuck underneath and I pulled it out as quickly as I could to find that much of the skin on her left palm is worn off. She had found this tiny space just below the belt to stick her hand and it just sucked it right in. Needless to say when I saw the damage to her hand I panicked and histerically called Charlie at school to tell him to come home RIGHT NOW, Liberty's hand was hurt, he was there in less than 5 minutes and looked at her hand and calmly and confidently told me there's nothing at the ER they could do for the injury that he couldn't do at home. It turns out it looks worse than it actually is. She didn't bleed, it was just like a really bad scrape you might get on your knee when you fall off your bike, where you see alot of flesh--but its on the palm of her hand and fingers. It was the hardest thing ever to see her cry and I was in such panic I couldn't think of anything else to do but get the kids in the car and get to the ER as fast as possible.
Even though I wish this hadn't happened today, I believe our trials come to teach us something. I feel like this experience was maybe a reminder for me to be even more thankful everyday that we are safe and are SO blessed, and to not take my family for granted. This accident could have been SO much worse had I not been right there to grab her hand out when I did. I have so much to be grateful for today.
Here are a few pictures we took of Liberty this evening after Charlie re-bandaged her hand. Trust me, you don't want to see what's underneath. She was a trooper, look at her smiling after all that!