It's Not So Little After All....

Did you read the previous blog - the one that I say how much I love Boo, the dog????

Well, this dog that I love so much and I had an accident....and when it happened the words out of my mouth weren't so nice.

The kids and Boo had been outside for quite some time. (One of the reasons that we bought in the "country" - so that the kids could play outside and be safe.) I walked outside to the end of our drive way to see if I could see them returning. (Remember a previous blog where I talked about hating tennis shoes...well, I was in my bare feet.) As I was nearing the end of our driveway, I could hear the kids and Boo. Boo loves to go for walks, but he is always super excited to get back home that he can be heard for miles...(Not really for miles, but he is soooooo incredibly noisy as he pants and runs home.)

Now here is how the accident happened: Once I got to the end of the driveway and saw the kids and Boo were returning home, I turned around and started back down the driveway. Once Boo got to our driveway, all he could think about was getting back inside. For some reason as he charged for the door, he ran into the back of my calf. Well, he is a very muscular dog and I wasn't expecting him to knock into me. So when he hit my calf, my whole foot buckled and was dragged across the driveway peeling the skin off of my toes.....this is the part where I should have washed my mouth out with soap. It hurt so bad!!!!!! And there was blood...

I'm a terrible patient and have to do these kind of things myself - so it took me a while to build my courage to clean my toes. Once I had them cleaned, I only had two skinned toes with my big toe being hurt the most.

Here's the ironic thing about my scraped big toe. It looked like a small cut - nothing too big. But when you really look at it (or you really feel the pain), you can see that it goes pretty deep. Such a small cut but it runs deep. Good thing that I mustered up that courage and cleaned it out - I would hate to be suffering the consequences of not taking care of it because it was only a small cut.

Reminded me that there are things in my life that are just something "small" but have a lot of "deep" to them. I need to take care of these areas so that they don't cause more harm in the future. I guess I've got some more courage to muster up!!!!