Trauma in paradise

First stitches. Very traumatic. She was carrying some things down the stairs and tripped on the last one. When she landed, her lip had an unfortunate collision with the hardwood floor. She split her lip and has two stitches. It looks pretty good now but it was pretty puffy on Wednesday.

I now understand the whole "harder on Mom than on the kid" issue. I was fine getting her from incident to Urgent care, but when they started talking about scarring and lifted up her lip to show me the (healable but bloody) damage, it was heartwrenching. I'm certain that the most traumatic point for her was having the doc actually put in the stitched. I know she didn't agonize over whether she'd have an unsightly scar for eternity, but I sure did. Sheesh, this mothering thing is exhausting.