A Mother's Day to Remember

Happy Mother's Day to all you special mom's out there. Hope you had a great day to celebrate everything you do!!

Our Mother's Day weekend was definitely one I will remember. The Carpenter/Barrow Clan got together in Raleigh for the weekend at Kevin and Meighan's. It was great to see everyone. We hadn't all gotten together since Christmas - so it was time. The kids had a blast...UNTIL...Braxton and Sean were playing chase inside. They were running through the den, to the dining room, through the swaying door into the kitchen, when one unlucky run around cost Braxton a good size chunk out of his eye brow! It looked really bad. We decided it would be best to have someone look at it. So we went to urgent care down the road - closed, then we went to Nexcare - Dr. had an emergency so they were sending all patients to their other facility 5 miles away, we went to the next closest Urgent care - closed, found the other Nexcare and the Dr basically said, if it were on his leg, he would stitch it up, but being on his face, he referred us to Wake Med pediatric ER. The dr said that's where he would take his son. So off to the ER we went. Let me tell you how HUGE Wake Med is. It took us literally 4 times around, because of course, you have to go to