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Better Today

Today was better although I didn?t get much sleep. I took the two girls to the dr. Both of them had sinus infections and Heidi had an ear infection too. This was pretty fast moving ? they told me on Friday they didn?t feel well and by the end of the weekend they sounded like their very own TB ward.

Most accidents happen at home! I?m not sure how this happened but Kristin grabbed the handle of the frying pan, not realizing it had been hanging over a very recently glowing burner. She says that Billy had just been cooking with the frying pan and apparently when he moved it to the cool burner, the handle was over the one that had just been on. She didn?t realize it until too late.

She burned her hand pretty good, first degree burns on her palm and fingers. Thank God I haven?t seen any blisters and the dr showed me how to dress it.

It brought back a memory of something my mom told me once: when you are cooking on the stove, make sure the handles of the pans are turned away from the front of the stove. It?s too easy for a little one to grab on and turn the pan over onto themselves. When I was really little, I reached up to the table and accidentally pulled a bowl of very hot soup onto myself. No bowls too close to the edge of the table either, warned Mom. I remembered and I thought I?d taught it to my kids but apparently not well enough.

If that wasn?t enough, I burned my thumb making pea soup. Oh well, ?tomorrow is another day.?

Colin Powell resigned as Secretary of State today. It's really too bad because I liked him a lot. I thought he had a lot of integrity. Bush is replacing him with Dr. Condoleeza Rice and I'm just not as impressed with her. One thing I noticed about her is that she won't let anyone (reporters especially) get a word in edgewise when she wants to say something. I like that quality about her, even if I don't particularly believe what she is saying.

I also see that there is an investigation beginning into whether a U.S. soldier shot a wounded Iraqi prisoner in the head and killed him. Apparently he didn't know the prisoner was wounded. He thought the guy was faking.

I felt really sick after what happened at Abu Ghraib. This sounds like it could be very bad too if it's true. How can you go up to an unarmed, wounded man and just shoot him in the head like that?