Hot Tub Accidents: It Happens: Starting 2012 With A Bang

I found myself with a little bit of extra time today because my kids went back to school today.  Luckily, our school district had the foresight to make a call to all the parents on Saturday night to remind us.  I was convinced, and told a number of people, that our kids started back to school on Tuesday because today is normally a holiday. 

Imagine my delight when I found out my husband was also off today.  Because it's a holiday.  So we dropped the kids off at school and had a breakfast date and then went to an early movie.  A fun way to start the new year, I say! 

A much better start than slipping and falling on my bare arse and hand (ouch) while climbing out of the hot tub to stop my sleepy daughter from waking the rest of the kids in the house in the weeeeee hours of the morning on New Year's Day. 


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It could have been so much worse. I could have hit my head.  I could have broken that wrist I so gracefully used to try to stop my fall.  But it makes everything so much worse when your clothes are nowhere to be seen and your robe is...over...there...just...out...of...reach.  And there are well-meaning people in the hot tub looking down upon you, asking after your well-being.  I mean, I did just fall out of the hot tub after all.  But we moms, sometimes we have to get up even when we really don't want to.  Even when our dignity is compromised.  Even when it would be so much easier to lay there on the concrete slab and let someone put a robe over you so you can compose yourself with grace.  But no, there's a child awake in the house who is surely going to start that siren cry at any moment.  So scramble I do to grab that damn robe, tend to the kids and wrap up a wonderful New Years Eve. 

Happy New Year to me. And to you!