It was snowy when we got there and then it dumped a bunch more powdery prettiness shortly after we arrived and it covered up our tracks. My cousin, her boyfriend, kid and a few other couples rented a big huge house with the biggest hugest flat screen TV I have ever seen. There was some sledding and some cute photo ops:
Then, the night before we left Marlowe took a nose dive down the stone tile staircase. I was in the kitchen and didn't see it happen but Gus did and he yelled the most gut wrenching yell, that alone was scary. Luckily, he caught Marlowe right before he hit the bottom which would have probably been the worst part of the fall. Marlowe cried a little bit but then started saying he wanted to go out on the couch and have daddy read him a book. We gave him whatever he wanted for the next couple hours and he was totally fine. Gus and I were super shaken but Marlowe, aside from a couple scratches and three bruises in a line on his forehead, was cool.
You know how sometimes you take something for granted and assume everyone thinks the way you do? Later, Gus and I were talking and he said he knew as soon as Marlowe started down the stairs it was going to happen. I said I'd envisioned hours ago. Gus seemed surprised but I've envisioned pretty much every bad thing that could ever happen to us. My head is filled with possible broken arms, noses, hearts, minds, stitches, cancer, you name it. Mommyhood, it brings with it all these crazy emotions and thoughts that never occurred to me before, sometimes it's very painful.
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